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Management/Leadership
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Special Preview: Swift, High-Tech Response Keeps EMS On Top of Swine Flu Outbreak
By Lauren Simon
A lot has changed since 8,098 people became sick with SARS during the 2003 worldwide outbreak. Today, information travels at supersonic speeds via email, the Web, Twitter, Wikis, GIS maps, and social networks. Instead of having too little information when a crisis occurs, some people think there is too much.
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Summer Reading Recommendations
As you settle into summer and consider the reading you will take to the cabin, beach or backyard, bypass that pile of emergency services-related reports, and pick up something unexpected.
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Colorado Chief Conquers Consolidation Challenges
Dan Qualman has been living with change every day for the last year or so as fire chief of the new South Metro Fire Rescue Authority – a consolidation of the former South Metro Fire Rescue District and neighboring Parker Fire Protection District, about 25 miles south of Denver. How Qualman has led his department during this transition provides a fascinating case study into how change can be successfully accomplished despite a skeptical and wounded workforce.
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Ruminations: That Dreaded Memo
By John Becknell
How will you handle it when your City Manager sends you that dreaded memo saying that the city is "examining a variety of ways in which we might cut costs..."?
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What Managers Can Learn from Paramedic Scene Management Skills
By Lauren Simon
Ontario Ministry of Health senior manager Anthony Campeau discusses his theory about how paramedics use specific social skills to successfully manage often chaotic and unpredictable incident scenes and thus take sufficient control of the situation to do whatever is necessary to best care for their patients.
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How Men Sacrifice Safety for Gender Security
The last guy standing against a raging blaze may seem like the toughest, most reliable guy on the line, but he actually may be the one who is most dangerous to his fellow firefighters, according to business school professors Robin Ely of Harvard and Debra Meyerson of Stanford, who conduct research on gender-based behavior and its influence on work environments.
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Leadership Tips: Want to Be Boss? Speak Up!
By Aimee J. Frank
It’s not enough to know your field; you must act like a leader to become a leader, according to researchers who concluded that individuals who behave assertively, confidently, and in ways that make them appear competent are judged to be leaders even if they lack competence.
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Ruminations: Another Near Crash
By John Becknell
I’m alone in the cockpit. The engines are out, and the plane is going down. I’m desperately looking for a place to land and can’t find the river.
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Thoughts on Developing Character in New Hires
By Skip Kirkwood
Former Porsche CEO and business consultant Peter Schutz is famous for his advice, “Hire character. Train skill.” Many of us in emergency services fail miserably in this regard. We run potential hires through all sorts of tests, assessments, interviews and checks to verify their technical competence, only to find that we have hired technically proficient personnel with questionable etiquette and underdeveloped character.
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