by Thomas L. Brown, the first online book about 21st Century leadership, is now in Adobe Acrobat® format. Extensively updated, its original message endures. The chapter links below are read-only. Amazon.com offers a printable version with a Foreword by Jim Collins and the artwork of H. L. "Mac" Thornton. The Quotable Fire [free, printable PDF] highlights memorable quotes from Tom Brown and his unique journey. The Fire Poems have a following all their own. Becoming a leader is a very personal journey; join Tom's journey now...


by Jim Collins, author of Good To Great...


Why Tom wrote this book... Where's the fire in the belly?


Leadership? It's all about taking a journey...


Is the leadership model broken? Permanently?


Is there only darkness at the end of the tunnel?


We are born to glow!


Leaders do five things extraordinarily well.


Come, leaders — come!


What is Fire about? What is progressive thinking? Who is a 21st Century Leader? There are hundreds of books on “leadership,” but the term is meaningless because “leaders” have become placeholders, people dedicated to preserving the status quo to maintain power and control, to extract personal wealth, or to promote self-aggrandizement. An historical view (going back to when our planet looked much like the raw wonder of Yellowstone National Park) reveals that leadership over time was first and foremost about the nurturing of powerful new ideas to make society better. Thus, Thomas L. Brown asserts in The Anatomy Of Fire that the 21st Century needs leaders who are discoverers of new ideas, who can win others to their point of view, who can acquire the resources to convert ideas into reality, who will stand by their ideas with steely resolve, and who are dedicated to improving mankind. Leaders are society’s vessels for progressive ideas; they are the unrelenting, unyielding, unremitting force for a new idea with the promise of positive change.

   
 


The Anatomy Of Fire utilizes electronic publishing, the fastest way to publish in a high-quality format.
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