Fail-Safe 101

Fail-Safe 101 is a comprehensive guide book of practical insights and lessons learned for improving people's leadership, operational effectiveness, and organizational efficiency. It is intended for aspiring and seasoned leaders and managers in all professions, including workforce members, practitioners, students, and scholars interested in leadership, followership, business management, operational effectiveness, organizational efficiency, professional development, organizational studies, human and social behavior, ethics, and cultural changes. Fail-Safe 101 is an all-encompassing, enlightening, and thoughtfully entertaining exploration of leadership, followership, management, operational, and organizational failures. A magnum opus that will be of perpetual interest to workforce members of all career fields, levels, and generations. Fail-Safe 101 is unique in presenting key indicators of workplace problems, along with sensible, easy to understand, and concise guidance for identifying, preventing, and mitigating cascading challenges commonly found in almost all organizations. Readers will discover a vast depth and breadth of invaluable observations, critical analysis, and practical options of how to improve interactive problem-solving skills. Along with techniques for broadening situational awareness, refining professional proficiencies, and promoting effective operations and efficient organizations. Fail-Safe 101 is well-timed to embolden young supervisors and new executives in many vocations. Fail-Safe 101 is vital for aspiring managers and seasoned leaders, eager on learning more about interpersonal dilemmas in commercial, government, public, and private enterprises. This book is essential for neophyte and skilled professionals, advisors, scholars, and everyone interested in improving leadership, management, and followership. Most leadership books focus on biographies, theories, and success stories; but few are written about followership or knowledge gleaned from failures. Fail-Safe 101 fills this void, by sharing comprehensive insights and best practices compactly presented into 68 profiles of challenges, 101 causes of failures, and 16 scenarios of failures; including 50 chapters of lessons learned for enhancing effective governance, administration, compliance, and much more. Fail-Safe 101 is an excellent primer and priceless investment for a less stressful life and more successful future.

Dr. W. Dean Lee has 40 plus years of practical experience with professional successes and personal failures; holding various positions in diverse organizations, working alongside countless talented people from austere conditions to exotic locales around the globe. In teamwork with countless other professionals, he helped address a myriad of problems involving national defense, national security, crisis management, operational effectiveness, organizational efficiency, and numerous sensitive affairs. Dean's experience covers a wide-spectrum of domains, including accountability, administration, career transition, knowledge sharing, leadership, logistics, predictive analysis, program assessment, risk management, security matters, specialized training, unified operations, and various technical subjects. He is the author of Beyond the Uniform (Wiley & Sons), several strategic defense and national security initiatives, and his articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal's NBEW and other national periodicals. Dean has multiple advance degrees and is a graduate of several leadership, management, and specialty courses. He is the recipient of several awards and commendations, and contributed over four decades to national and community service. Dean Lee strives to remain an inquisitive explorer, public servant, and dedicated professional.