IGNITE: Difficult Right Over Easy Wrong

Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. – Wildland Fire Leadership

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[Photo credit: Star Fire Protection District, Table Rock Fire (2016]

New Feature Added to the LLC Product List

We are honored to help the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center (LLC) launch a new product. LLC staff have been working diligently to expand into the podcast arena. Exhibit your care for those around you – lead with compassion by triggering learning.

IGNITE: Performing to Our Potential

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would astound ourselves. 

– Thomas Edison

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[Photo credit: Folsom Lake Veterans Fire Crew]

IGNITE: Change Your Thoughts - Change Your World

Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

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[Photo credit: Wyoming IHC]

In the Middle of a Burnout

(Photo credit: Photodisc)

"And there I was...in the middle of a burnout."

No, not a wildland fire burnout. The burnout I found myself in was when an individual feels "overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands." (HelpGuide.org) I was burning the candle at both ends and didn't think I would get burned.

IGNITE: Influence, Not Authority

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.  – Ken Blanchard

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[Photo credit: Star Fire Protection District, Table Rock Fire (2016)]

IGNITE: The Past

Successful leaders make the past a platform, not an anchor. – Dan Rockwell

[Photo credit: Baker City IHC]

IGNITING Beyond Borders

Mentoring and sharing knowledge, skills and abilities is part of being a mission-driven culture. San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) is leading by example and sharing their service for the common good. In the video below, the common good stretches international boundaries to the firefighting brotherhood of Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia.



Service for the Common Good
Service for the common good is at the heart of the Mission-Driven Culture; it is the core value that motivates people to dedicate their time, talent, and energy to become members of incident organizations.

Although staff members consistently voice a strong motivation to serve the public, individuals express this commitment differently, and the resulting differences in behavior and attitude can generate friction and thwart concentric action.

At the core of this value is a commitment to ensuring that all actions and decisions promote the desired team result, which is the staff’s collective interpretation of how to serve the common good.

© Mission-Centered Solutions. Used with permission.

IGNITE: Stepping Forward to Lead

Leaders in the wildland fire service chose to reach beyond the challenges of learning the craft of firefighting by stepping forward to lead people in complex and dangerous environments. – Leading in the Wildland Fire Service, page 67

[Photo credit: Midewin IHC, Pioneer Fire (2016)]

IGNITE: Mastering Self

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. – Lao Tzu

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[Photo credit, Redding Interagency Hotshot Crew]

A Mission-Driven Culture

What happens when an incident exceeds your worst-case scenario—a situation so complex that chaos reigns supreme and the command and control structure fails?

San Diego Fire-Rescue found themselves facing just such a situation during the 2003 Cedar fire. In response to that event, SDFD evolved and began aligning themselves with the concept of a mission-driven culture.

IGNITE: Choosing Between Right & Wrong

Thank you to all the hard-working fire and emergency responders doing their jobs this Labor Day. We know your commitment comes at a sacrifice to family. Thank you for your service!

People of integrity separate what is right from what is wrong and act according to what they know is right, even at personal cost. – Leading in the Wildland Fire Service, page 66

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[Photo credit, Justin Vernon]

IGNITE: Respect First

To gain respect from our people, we first respect them. – Leading in the Wildland Fire Service, page 45

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[Photo credit, David Morris, South Africa]