Myths of Leadership in the Fire Services

 

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Myths of Leadership in the Fire Service

This week's Fire Leadership Tip is the first in a series of eight videos (sent over the next eight weeks) introducing the Myths of Fire Leadership. Not understanding these myths drives a lot of the negativity on the floor. Can you forward this on to your Officers? 

Often as a Line Officer or Shift Commander we have a misperception of leadership based on our limited perspective. This series will help you see your role differently.

Please share this with your floor and drive the discussion. 

Click here to watch this 5-minute video.

Click here to provide some feedback on this week's tip.

I'd also like to share with you your strengths and weaknesses as a Chief. Please click here to take a brief leadership/communication survey. And/or forward this to your Officers and encourage them to take the survey as well. 

In your service, 

Warmest,

James Rowan
Fire Leadership Coach
480-800-9794

P.S. Here are some of my favorite quote on leadership:

A good leader is one who sees what needs to be done and then does it.

A leader must submit to a stricter discipline than is expected of others.

All great leaders train leaders while they are leading.

A successful leader puts his head into a thing before he puts his foot into it.

Leadership is not getting tasks done through people,

But building people through tasks.

No organization can progress and grow without leadership.  In the final analysis, leadership is the only real advantage one organization has over another in a competitive society.

People expect the leader to be enthusiastic!!

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

To keep up is not enough, a leader must excel in performance.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.  Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one.
--Dale Carnegie

The price of greatness is responsibility.
--Winston Churchill

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
--John Dewey

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
--Benjamin Disraeli

The essence of leadership is the ability to inspire others to work together as a team – to stretch for a common objective.                                                                                                                                                       --Harold S. Geneen

The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that outlasts it.
--William James, Harvard Psychologist

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