IGNITE: Respect While Thinking

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The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first.

The quality of our thinking depends on the way we treat each other while we are thinking. 

Nancy Kline

Remembering the Dude

Incident Summary
June of 1990 will long be remembered as one of the hottest months in Arizona history. On June 26th the temperature rose to record temperatures of 122 F in Phoenix and to 106 F in Payson. In addition to the extreme temperatures, Arizona had been in a severe 3 year drought, the combination producing a critically high fire danger throughout the state, especially the Mogollon Rim country and the Tonto National Forest north of Payson. Fuels in the area are primarily ponderosa pine with an understory of mixed oak, manzanita, needle and leaf litter, and scattered large (greater than 6 inch diameter) dead logs. Much of the understory brush is heavily draped with very dry pine needles. Live fuel moisture of the manzanita and oak is very low (76%), fine dead fuel moisture is 3% and 8% for larger dead fuels.

IGNITE: Swallow Your Pride

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You learn not to choke if you swallow your pride. - Allen Briggs

IGNITE: Safety doesn't happen by accident!

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Safety doesn’t happen by accident.  - Unknown

Are You Agile?

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Life's beauty is inseparable from its fragility. - Susan David

Have you found yourself in an emotional mess lately? I know I have at times. There are times when I let my emotions get the best of me and stand between my relationships with others.

IGNITE: A True Test of Leadership

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One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold Glasgow

IGNITE: Reason and Judgment

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

Opening Up Can Make Your Team Stronger

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You do not build trust in order to be vulnerable. When you're vulnerable, it builds trust. Being vulnerable together builds closeness and creates it. - Daniel Coyle

"There I was..."

When we share a good story, people become a part of our story. Their imaginations and senses awaken, and their emotions react. However, telling someone else's story is often easier than telling our own. The reason? Vulnerability. In order to share our story, we have to be vulnerable.

IGNITE: Keeping the Faith

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Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity. - Harold J. Seymore

IGNITE: Safe Connections

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Cohesion happens not when members of a group are smarter but when they are lit up by clear, steady signals of safe connection. - Daniel Coyle, Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Effective Groups

IGNITE: From the Field for the Field Campaign Challenge

2018 WILDLAND FIRE LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN CHALLENGE
Time for a bigger challenge for our annual campaign. This one may stretch you a bit. As a team, select another team with whom you can develop a common purpose (beyond a fireline task) and accomplish that task. You can also choose to help another team develop their leadership. Here are some ideas:

• Challenge another team to a team building activity. 
• Team with another group to do something for your community (could be fire camp). 
• Start a roving leadership library. Pass books on to another team. 
• Conduct a preplanning exercise with another team.

We would love to hear other ideas and see the fruits of your action.

IGNITE the Spark for Leadership and SHARE through your spheres of influence.

Is Your Trust Triangle Wobbling?

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How do you go from a "toxic pirate culture that included numerous allegations of sexism, ethical corner-cutting and a take-no-prisoners approach*"  to a company customers and employees can trust? How do you rebuild broken trust?

IGNITE: Complacency

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“The danger is greatest when the finis“The danger is greatest when the finish line is in sight.” ~ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles ~ 

is in sight.”

~ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles ~