Twelve Successful Managers

Abstract

Much of this book is composed of selections extracted from interviews with 12 skillful managers--11 men and one woman. They each headed a unique type of agency located with the governmental structure of their respective communities. While the agency names differed somewhat, reflecting changing philosophies of emergency preparedness, the primary mission of each unit was to function as the disaster coordinating agency among other locally based organizations and state and federal bureaus. In this chapter we’ll learn why these 12 were selected and how it is that we know they had been reasonably successful in their managerial roles.