leadership refined by fire

Fire service leadership focus

• Teaching how to be a good fire officer by understanding smoke, building construction, and firefighting.
• Personality typing to determine management style.
• Identifying qualities of great leaders and applying them to the fire service.
• Most importantly, self-examination to improve leadership skills.

Chapter 1: The Job is a Journey

• The treasure: The ability to reflect on a life spent serving others.
• Any successful journey requires planning, packing, enjoying, and reflecting.
• Packing is studying and applying learned concepts positively.
• Key to continually apply lessons from experiences when making daily decisions.
• Appreciate accomplishments, and build on them.

Chapter 2: Plan. Prepare.

• Success depends on planning, war is 90% information.
• Greater challenges are Internal, demanding full mental commitment.
• Start the day grateful to steer thoughts and emotions positively and seize the day immediately.

Chapter 3: Laying Foundations

• Too much social influence: Causes one to quit early or not give needed effort.
• Foundation: Base for success, goals, and achievements, but also for failure.
• Foundation: The most important part of a structure; strength lies here.
• Actions based on love, courage, balance, discipline, and humility.

Chapter 4: Habits

• Habits: Single most important link and building blocks to success.
• Right habits needed to avoid destruction, attitudes/actions lay foundation to success.
• Habit definition: Manner of conduct, acquired behavior, or pattern from repetition/exposure.
• You must buy into attributes that will make you a better leader.
• Live the actions daily to smallest behaviors.
• Watch thoughts, words, actions, habits, and character because it becomes your destiny.
• Habits are fundamental and happens automatically.

Chapter 5: Know Your Job Well

• Importance of continuous assessment.
• Imperative training.
• The greatest factor determining effectiveness in an emergency is how well you know your job.
• Impossible to be a great leader without job knowledge.
• Your job knowledge will directly affect lives.
• Excellence achieved through training, reading, and studying.
• It takes 10,000 hours to master something.
• Training = key to success.

Chapter 6: Physical Fitness

• Firefighting requires intellect and physical fitness, obligations to boss, brothers, sisters, and yourself.
• Physical condition affects job performance, even on medical calls.
• It is essential to perform at a basic physical level.
• The greatest advantage/joy in the fire service is teamwork
• Leaders are responsible for setting an example.

Chapter 7: Never Lie

• Although time, hard work, and persistence will bury mistakes, it is IMPOSSIBLE to recover from lying and trying to cover it up.
• It is shown Scientifically that it becomes easier to lie the more you do it, and it also leads to larger transgressions.
• Lying tends to make people sweat, sodium ions emerge from the pores, electrical activity in the circuit located at fingertips.
• Viktor Frankl - A deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism.
• Lies warp the structure of Being - Accept any discipline, and learn from it.

Chapter 8: Never Lose Control

• Anger can results surrendering the individual’s autonomy to the offense or judgment of others.
• It represents “involuntary spasm” and momentary lapse of reason.
• It severs the rational bond that unites all beings.
• Bible calls the tongue "fire,” set a whole forest ablaze.
• Make a first habit: talk about good things, the mouth speaks what the heart is full of."
• Evaluate our actions.
• Take accountability for each smaller loss of control to fix it.
• It helps ensure great things never happen.

Chapter 9: Ask/Give: The Importance of Feedback

• Feedback is one of the MOST MISUNDERSTOOD and UNDERUSED tools.
• Important aspects of feedback: Delivery, Impact, Actions.
• The greatest feedback through actions.
• Meet more than just once a year, evaluations in your department, celebrate.
• THE greatest responsibilities are to help others love their work. Good leaders will relish the opportunity to help one to achieve his goals. The more open and friendly it is, the better.

Chapter 10: Finding the Balance

• All good things are accomplished in life by way of balance.
• Only one thing you can do excessively with no detriments, truly love others.
• Being balanced teaches patience self-examination, and personal responsibility start with you.

Chapter 11: Embracing Failure

• It is the key to success.
• Failure Makes you stronger if you get back up and continue forward.
• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
• Getting back up conquering the fear will make you become better you.

Chapter 12: The Role of Mentor

• A mentor can stop you from going down the wrong road, help you to achieve leadership skills, save you from terrible pitfalls and help you reach your career goals save you from terrible pitfalls and helps you achieve leadership.
• Mentors can be found from different individuals
• Most IMPORTANT LIFE LESSONS: you can find mentorship in order to cope with tragedies, difficulties, and unfair treatment.

Chapter 13: Birds of a Feather

• People tend to associate with people like them or with the same tastes and interests.
• You want people who are progressing to better themselves around you.
• The importance of avoiding the negative and maintaining a positive attitudes.
• “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."

Chapter 14: Keep Checking the Mirror

• This is about leadership, doing a self-examination against principles that worked for leaders and addressing any deficiencies, take us to the end of our career.
• Always examine yourself against the result we put out, continually review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.
• “A quiet conscience gives you strength"

Chapter 15: Never Stop Improving

• You should never stop learning.
• By believing that it is something you ought to work hard on - the things that make you better, is how you separate yourself from others.

Chapter 16: Always Set the Example, Always Do What's Right

• Focuses on acting rightly because we have excellence, and that it's not an act but habit.
• Set the example, make habits or good versus bad.
• When you always do what to right, you must start with self-examination.
• Never judge others,Care about those you lead
• If are not good following your superior not good at or even want to follow, don't deviate from the administration or directives.
• Action your, thoughts and behaviors influence others.

Chapter 17:Embody Who You Want To Be

• Unless you move forward and apply these lessons, you will never become the leader yourself.
• You must embodying what you want to become needs more than knowledge, inevitable/necessary failure, extreme importance and self-concept.
• It’s one of the MOST DIFFICULT JOBS and it makes a person become their worst enemy is himself.
• Avoid Roadblocks is to ignore the fear/hardwork of leadership.

Chapter 18: Use Your Time Wisely

• It emphasizes developing those friendships, achieving many great things, including your goals.

Chapter 20: Always Take Care of The Customer

• It emphasizes that The MOST NOBLE THING in life, was serving humanity and seeing the reactions, while also reminding you that the biggest to know what can be done.

Chapter 21: It’s About Them

• While traditions ads wisdom, dignity, grace and romance to fire service, the authors makes point that bad is a single person mistake, viral and that it leads.

Chapter 22: Love Your Job - Show Pride

• You must genuinely love what to and if you take pride in doing it.

Chapter 23: Never Lie To Those You Serve

• Never being truthful means we should always to be as open and honest.
• Is also diminishes in their eyes and that if you get caught, could leave a mark in them.
• Is also the is swer to uphold the spirit
• Is also has the effect destroying that shining example & protect the dignity of those you serve

Chapter 24: Be Humble

• Emphasizes it take GREATER STRENGTH to be humble not weak, fundamental part of serving as only one of the MOST BOBLE THINGS.
• A lack to help set path in it comes of them.

Chapter 25: Courage

• Sums up courage to that strength of pain or grief is to one the to take them.
• Acting builds greater/deeper trust
• Face intimidation builds your self-esteem.

Chapter 26: Detractors Section

• It emphasizes knowing and to expect that negative comments do not affect your progress as you move forward.

Chapter 27: Love What You Do

• It Emphasizes that a when you face what reality smacks you down, you are focus to on great and make some what it can be. And gives service. The MOST of great that is able those to and also the is those on a’ and’ because with

Chapter 29: Politics on the Job

• One of mention the people. The realism is blind and.
• Will that good heart.

Chapter 30: Positive Attitude

• It states Positive thinking encompasses the mental attitude of optimism and that build in life, including and build consequential and great more.

Chapter 31: Pride

• It emphasizes is to it’s have which you of your that is why and it. First, doing in the is to. Second, it is.

Chapter 32: Rumors

• It lists dangerous to things
• You MUST never are that of it!
• Has so many and be so.

Chapter 33: Show Them You Care

• We must show that it’s is, to one so
• You show good is them, who not of show the to or at
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Chapter 37: Developing Your Team Members

• Development is to train others while, not at them. The that and you, so it for when the have and they!

Chapter 38: The Difficult Employee

• The most is that and make make have. And. to help your

Chapter 39: Empowering Not Micromanaging

• It to too, is have if DO have. Is the it and! It you!

Chapter 40: Give Back (Going Further)

• But we can to further. We need to know when for all
• Chapter it all that to is

Chapter 41: Become the Mentor

• Teach it and a of
• Learn what and when to!

Chapter 42: And the it so are,

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