There is so much hunger for leadership in the fire service today. Everyone wants to be a better leader, but the question most often asked is "What do great leaders do?" The real heroism of leadership involves having the courage to face reality and helping people around you to face it. It's no accident that the word "vision" refers to our capacity to see. Of course, in the fire service, vision has come to mean something abstract or even inspirational in many cases. But the quality of any vision depends on its accuracy, not on how appealing or imaginative it is.
Mustering the courage to question reality is a function of a leader. And that requires the courage to face three realities at once:
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