IGNITE: The Best Day

The best day in your leadership journey is when you realize the biggest challenges reside within. – Dan Rockwell, Leadership Freak


[Photo: Jacob Welsh/AK IMT]

Challenge #30: 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #30 – Servant-Leaders think systemically.

• Review Greenleaf’s four requirements for thinking systemically.
• Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership, p. 138.
•  Answer the questions posed by the authors on pp. 138-139.
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: The Act of Service

 

Service isn’t doing what’s expected of us. Service is doing more than what’s expected of us. – Simon Sinek

[Photo: Kari Greer/USFS]

Be Open To Talking To People

[Photo: Chris Ayer]

With no particular start date, the 2023 Region 3 fire season (or fire year, if you are so inclined) has taken it's sweet time in ramping up; however. Arizona seems to have entered another burn period last few weeks. Therefore, while I am sitting in the demob line waiting to go through finance, I thought I would share some perspective from my last 5-day assignment as a single resource tending a support tender where air conditioning was minimal and temperatures hovered around 102-105 degrees and vehicle dash readings around 111 degrees (I am going to ignore the 118 degree reading.)

IGNITE: Trust Them First

 

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." ― Ernest Hemingway

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Challenge #29: 2023 WFLDP Campaign

Challenge #29 – Good leaders navigate change well.

• Watch: MCTI teamcast on navigating change
• Journalize:
• Have you experienced a time of more change?
• How are you handling the speed of change?
• How is your organization handling the speed of change?
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: Be Somebody Who...

 

 Be somebody who makes everybody feel like somebody. – The Daily Coach

[Photo: Lisa Bartlett/Nate Sinks/Calf Fire]

IGNITE: Complexity/Simplicity

 

Behind complexity, there is always simplicity to be revealed. Inside simplicity, there is always complexity to be discovered. – Gang Yu as quoted in Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership

[Photo; Kari Greer/USFS]

Challenge #28: 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #28: Good leaders shape the future.

• Watch “The Future Will Be Shaped by Optimists” by Kevin Kelly.

• Journalize:
• Do you need instant gratification?
• What positive change have you seen?
• Good things take time. For what are you willing to wait?
• Dig deeper on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: The Art of Progress

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. – Alfred North Whitehead as quoted in "Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership"

[Photo; Kari Greer/USFS]

IGNITE: Start Today

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson

[Photo: Jay Kurth]

Challenge #27 - 2023 WFLDP Campaign

 

Challenge #27: Good leaders dream about and plan for the future.

• Watch Jose Esteves’ video “Did You Know – 2022.”

• What will your life look like 5, 10, 25 years from now?
• What will our organization look like 5, 10, 25 years from now?
• Dig deeper with others on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal.

IGNITE: Happy Independence Day

 

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. – Peter Marshall


[Photo: Ben Li/BLM]