Comments on: Eating Our Young http://firehousezen.com/2009/10/10/eating-our-young/ Brain Food for Mongo. Change management & leadership in today's emergency services. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Kuntz http://firehousezen.com/2009/10/10/eating-our-young/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Tim Kuntz Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:52:58 +0000 http://www.firehousezen.com/?p=609#comment-261 Yes we are. Yes we are.

]]> By: truck6alpha http://firehousezen.com/2009/10/10/eating-our-young/comment-page-1/#comment-260 truck6alpha Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:35:46 +0000 http://www.firehousezen.com/?p=609#comment-260 Tim, Thanks for reading. Take a look at today's blog post and I think we're in agreement: http://firehousezen.com/2009/10/17/balance-in-power/ Some leaders think that they are the next coming of Alexander the Great when they are actually the next coming of Elmer the Fudd. Tim,

Thanks for reading. Take a look at today’s blog post and I think we’re in agreement:

http://firehousezen.com/2009/10/17/balance-in-power/

Some leaders think that they are the next coming of Alexander the Great when they are actually the next coming of Elmer the Fudd.

]]> By: Tim Kuntz http://firehousezen.com/2009/10/10/eating-our-young/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Tim Kuntz Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:22:02 +0000 http://www.firehousezen.com/?p=609#comment-258 Just got back into the Service after a few years off. We need to stick together now more than ever. We are losing good members due to backbiting, firehouse politics and just plain trash talk. We need to protect a brothers back. I was a young, cocky, know-it-all who was never wrong. My way was the only way I was a chief A$$. I got stepped on, hard, and rightly so. I need to change. We need to calm down. We need to motivate people in the right way In your face gets us nothing. I know that from experience. The "we're better because we /run more/run on a truck, rescue or whatever/have better stuff will get us nowhere. We need to lead by example not by so much talk. We need to educate and encourage. So much harder than complaining or trashing. We need to review, critique and discuss rationally. We need to take the time to do things right. Rushing into things is bad for a fire attack and just as bad for the fire service in general. Hard to due? You bet. But then when has anything worth while been easy? Just got back into the Service after a few years off. We need to stick together now more than ever. We are losing good members due to backbiting, firehouse politics and just plain trash talk. We need to protect a brothers back.
I was a young, cocky, know-it-all who was never wrong. My way was the only way I was a chief A$$. I got stepped on, hard, and rightly so. I need to change.
We need to calm down. We need to motivate people in the right way In your face gets us nothing. I know that from experience. The “we’re better because we /run more/run on a truck, rescue or whatever/have better stuff will get us nowhere. We need to lead by example not by so much talk.
We need to educate and encourage. So much harder than complaining or trashing.
We need to review, critique and discuss rationally. We need to take the time to do things right. Rushing into things is bad for a fire attack and just as bad for the fire service in general.
Hard to due? You bet. But then when has anything worth while been easy?

]]> By: Mike "FossilMedic" Ward http://firehousezen.com/2009/10/10/eating-our-young/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Mike "FossilMedic" Ward Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:59:07 +0000 http://www.firehousezen.com/?p=609#comment-251 Capt Schmoe: It is not a new fissure, just a more blunt and immediate presentation of generations of unresolved issues. They have taken the fun out of dysfunctional. Mike Capt Schmoe:

It is not a new fissure, just a more blunt and immediate presentation of generations of unresolved issues.

They have taken the fun out of dysfunctional.

Mike

]]> By: Joseph Schmoe http://firehousezen.com/2009/10/10/eating-our-young/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Joseph Schmoe Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:20:09 +0000 http://www.firehousezen.com/?p=609#comment-249 Some amazing diatribe posted in the comments section of the referred post. Could this be a sign of a larger, regional fissure in the fire/ems system? Some amazing diatribe posted in the comments section of the referred post. Could this be a sign of a larger, regional fissure in the fire/ems system?

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