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Whenever you lose your way as a leader, you can always ask yourself, “What would Ted do?”
In this episode, we dive into how firefighters’ decision-making process works, and how critically reliant that process is on experience. So, where are we missing opportunities to build experience and convert it to expertise?We’ve come up with
In Part 3 of our interview we pick up where we left off and get into how we evaluate accidents in the fire service, what we might be able to learn about that process from the airline industry, how to remove dominoes, and we give Bob “The Questi
Bob is the first guest we’ve had to show up to the recording with a powerpoint presentation. And while that gave us a chuckle, it’s a presentation filled with concepts that blew us away…and it’s a presentation that he threw together the day bef
Former Birmingham Firefighter George Cowgill posted a very personal account of his time as a firefighter and why he’s leaving that behind. If you’ve read it, you’re probably not surprised that it went viral, which is how we came across it. In
Like the picture above, psychological contracts can be binding, circular, heavy, old, rusty, and sometimes broken.Before this episode, two of us hadn’t ever heard of a psychological contract, but apparently we all have them. What they really
Fire is where the glory is. They call us firefighters, not building fighters. But fire isn’t really the enemy, is it? How well do you know your enemy?
Murder holes, force multipliers, and obstacles. All of them are components leading to what very well may be a unified theory of firefighters.
Spoiler Alert: we don’t really solve the pay problem. That would break a long-standing tradition on our podcast of not solving anything. But there are virtual arms races in some regions as departments raise salaries to compete for what seems to
What happens when lightning doesn't strike a house, and you don't act like the other firefighters?
And we wrap up our series on The Pathfinder with Part III, which picks up right where we left off at the end of Part II.
We think that the Pathfinder concept is such an important one, that we actually recorded two separate episodes trying to get it right. But each episode went different directions, so they both ended up being valuable to the discussion.
What do a fire recruit, a 70’s sitcom, and Walt Disney have to do with regret?
Every organization has those persons who push the organization from the inside. They advocate passionately for change, but while they’re doing it they can cause discomfort for those around them. They challenge long-held assumptions. They champi
This isn’t really an outtake; it’s just a topic that wasn’t really large enough to devote an entire episode to. Bill, all by his lonesome, talks into the mic about the paradox of The Ship of Theseus and what that means for organizational identi
A listener asked us: “At what point is a wrong decision actually worse than no decision at all?”It’s a great starting point for a roving conversation that gets into whether results matter in that calculus. We also rehash our earlier debate on
The National Fire Academy is the home of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial; hallowed ground for any firefighter. To borrow a phrase from President Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, PA (just 12 m
On June 6, 2021, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Smith gave his life while saving others who got caught in a rip current off the Alabama shore. Two of our podcast crew (Shane and Bill V.) worked for Bill Smith for years before Bill retired
As is the case with many of our episodes, we didn’t set out to make an episode about this. It actually was just a spirited conversation that we were having when we realized we should hit the record button.Is it better to be liked or respected
How do we as firefighters deal with luck? How honest are we about what part luck plays in our successes? More specifically, how much do we count on the same luck at our next fire?That’s where we start anyway, and we don’t exactly see eye to e
You make the case that you’re the best person for the next step up; only you don’t get chosen. What do you do then? When does a natural amount of disappointment turn into an unhealthy perception of being slighted? How hard is it to get behind
For this episode, we talk with “backstep” Firefighter Austin Kohler, who is only a few years into his career in the fire service. We ask him what he enjoys about the job, and what he didn’t expect about it. And about halfway through, we give Au
The book Leadership On The Line says a plan “is no more than today’s best guess.” So why do some in our profession get so attached to their plan that they can’t see when their plan has lost all chance to succeed?In this episode, we sit down w
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