From the Bureau to the Boardroom: 30 Management Lessons from the FBI

Book description

Discover the art of being a courageous and vigilant leader from some of our most fearless agents.

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. CHAPTER ONE: MANAGING THE CORPORATE MISSION
    1. Encourage the acceptance of new roles (1/2)
    2. Encourage the acceptance of new roles (2/2)
    3. Implement an up-or-out management policy
    4. Make management an attractive option to your top performers
    5. Ensure that the day-to-day lives up to the mission (1/3)
    6. Ensure that the day-to-day lives up to the mission (2/3)
    7. Ensure that the day-to-day lives up to the mission (3/3)
  4. CHAPTER TWO: MANAGING THE BRAND
    1. Cultivating fidelity, bravery, and integrity in the workplace (1/7)
    2. Cultivating fidelity, bravery, and integrity in the workplace (2/7)
    3. Cultivating fidelity, bravery, and integrity in the workplace (3/7)
    4. Cultivating fidelity, bravery, and integrity in the workplace (4/7)
    5. Cultivating fidelity, bravery, and integrity in the workplace (5/7)
    6. Cultivating fidelity, bravery, and integrity in the workplace (6/7)
    7. Cultivating fidelity, bravery, and integrity in the workplace (7/7)
  5. CHAPTER THREE: MANAGING READINESS
    1. The importance of simulation in the workplace
    2. Cultivate a ''one for all, all for one'' corporate culture (1/2)
    3. Cultivate a ''one for all, all for one'' corporate culture (2/2)
    4. Win with the tools you have, not the ones you wish you had (1/2)
    5. Win with the tools you have, not the ones you wish you had (2/2)
    6. Manage failure
    7. Develop the habit of visualization (1/2)
    8. Develop the habit of visualization (2/2)
    9. Ask for a plan!
  6. CHAPTER FOUR: MANAGING THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
    1. ''Infiltrate'' the customer all the way to the top (1/2)
    2. ''Infiltrate'' the customer all the way to the top (2/2)
    3. The FBI never gives up (1/2)
    4. The FBI never gives up (2/2)
    5. Publish a Ten Most Wanted Customers list
    6. Counter (and positively influence) unfair criticism (1/2)
    7. Counter (and positively influence) unfair criticism (2/2)
  7. CHAPTER FIVE: MANAGING RESOURCES
    1. Flying squads (1/5)
    2. Flying squads (2/5)
    3. Flying squads (3/5)
    4. Flying squads (4/5)
    5. Flying squads (5/5)
    6. Task-force management (1/3)
    7. Task-force management (2/3)
    8. Task-force management (3/3)
  8. CHAPTER SIX: MANAGING THE HIGHLY MOTIVATED
    1. Cultivate good cheer (1/2)
    2. Cultivate good cheer (2/2)
    3. Establish an awards board of former recipients (1/2)
    4. Establish an awards board of former recipients (2/2)
    5. The importance of budget to performance
    6. The appeal to self-sacrifice
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN: MANAGING CRISES (LESSONS FROM SWAT)
    1. Take control
    2. The importance of rehearsal
    3. Conduct shared-goal exercises (1/2)
    4. Conduct shared-goal exercises (2/2)
    5. Cultivate maturity and good judgment
    6. Debrief! and institutionalize best practices (1/2)
    7. Debrief! and institutionalize best practices (2/2)
    8. Keep them well
    9. Make decisions without second-guessing
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT: MANAGING THE FUTURE
    1. Reach out to the next generation
    2. Hire well (1/2)
    3. Hire well (2/2)
    4. Make the training relevant to future challenges
    5. Cultivate flexibility of mind (1/2)
    6. Cultivate flexibility of mind (2/2)
    7. The problem with success
  11. CONCLUSION
  12. AFTERWORD
  13. INDEX
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E
    6. F
    7. G
    8. H
    9. I
    10. J
    11. K
    12. L
    13. M
    14. N
    15. O
    16. P
    17. Q
    18. R
    19. S
    20. T
    21. U
    22. V
    23. W
    24. Z

Product information

  • Title: From the Bureau to the Boardroom: 30 Management Lessons from the FBI
  • Author(s): Dan Carrison
  • Release date: January 2009
  • Publisher(s): AMACOM
  • ISBN: 9780814410806