IGNITE: Discover Your Gift

(Photo: Redding IHC)

Discovering your unique gift to bring to your community is your greatest opportunity and challenge.

 Bill Plotkin œ

IGNITE: Leadership - A Sacred Trust

(Photo credit: La Grande IHC)

Leadership is a sacred trust. The decision to lead is the decision to be responsible for the growth and development of your fellow human beings. - Tom Peters

Murmurations

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Wouldn't if be great if our teams could function like a flock of starlings during a murmuration? Imagine what we could do and where we could go.

Now, I am going to be transparent. I am not fond of the bird itself. They are, in my humble opinion, a very loud, dirty bird, and annoying bird. However, I didn't really know much about murmurations until a project I am involved with recently adopted the starling and their murmurations as a way for various groups with similar missions to come together as a whole.

IGNITE: Creating Safety

(Photo credit: Rocky Mountain Wildland Fire Module)

Creating safety is about dialing in to small, subtle moments and delivering targeted signals at key points. - Daniel Coyle

IGNITE: Better Leaders - Better Human Beings

The development of our character is at the heart of our development, not just as leaders, but as human beings.

John Maxwell

What Defines Your Team?

Ethos n. The distinguishing charter, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group or institution. (Merriam-Webster)

Ethos defines how crew members embody the values of the mission-driven culture within the leadership environment. This ethos represents a professional code of conduct clarifying expectations for member behavior and forming the foundation for relationships. A team committed to exemplify these values stand the best chance of building synergy and successfully achieving their mission. Examples include:

IGNITE - Freedom: The Opportunity to Do What is Right

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 credits: Fire, Kari Greer/USFS; flag, DWilliams]

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

[Photo credit: Kari Greer/USFS]

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