If I asked you to determine if someone was having an MI by looking at one lead of a cardiac monitor, could you do it?

Here’s news for you: You all screwed it up. WE screwed it up.

I was driving down the road the other day and thinking, you know, I too could have a list of quotes, just like the real writers have. So in the interest of filling up a page of useless knowledge, I did.

Who among us has not experienced anger at the inconsiderate moron who fails to pull to the right when we are well behind them, permitting us a free lane on the way to some emergency?

“Zero defects” is a pretty lofty goal, but in our business, zero defects may be the difference between life and death.

What constitutes the next leader of the fire service? Which qualities break someone out from the pack?

Perhaps part of the problem in anonymity is that people feel compelled to say what they think, which in this and more than a few other cases, isn’t much.

The KSAs we need to emphasize are our greater connection throughout the entire emergency services industry, how we need to get past the things that divide us and unite about things we can agree on and change.

If we really care about leaving a legacy, we should consider the culture we develop as a result of our leadership of others.

Is the message of enlightened leadership actually getting out to the leaders of our emergency services?

I’m afraid my strategy for capturing the interest of the uninitiated has fallen through, so I’m going to have to return to preaching to the choir.  I guess it’s just as well; I’m not sure I want the lunatic fringe stalking around on my site anyway. It just so happens that I’m in the heart […]

It’s just become a norm of our victim society that it’s okay to be self-righteous and it’s okay to go after anyone who doesn’t think like us.