Download or read book Fire and Emergency Services Administration: Management and Leadership Practices Includes Navigate Advantage Access written by L. Charles Smeby and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is designed to be a progressive primer for students who want more knowledge about fire and emergency services administration. The book demonstrates the importance of the following skills, necessary to manage and lead a fire and emergency services department through the challenges and changes of the 21st century: Persuasion and influence, accountable budgeting, anticipation of challenges and the need for change, and using specific management tools for analyzing and solving problems. A central part of the book focuses on how the leadership of a fire and emergency services department develops internal and external cooperation to create a coordinated approach to achieving the department's mission"--