Editor’s Opinion❘By Bobby Halton.
关于在消防服务中长时间的最佳事物之一，实际上，关于活跃的最佳事情之一 - 是你上涨的角度，好吧。在过去的20年左右，在各种角色中，我参与了建设Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) International.Seeing the proposals to instruct at the world’s oldest and largest conference has been an education in and of itself. There are more adages than you can count, which remark on how “the more things change the more they stay the same,” “history repeats itself,” “there is nothing new under the sun,” and the list goes on and on. I think we all have a shared experience of how these sayings have felt true to us at one point or another in our lives. Then, at the same time oddly, we have felt exactly the opposite when we have stood back and thought, “Well, I never saw that before,” or “That’s a new one.”
Reviewing the 2022 proposals, we saw the number of those on new topics increase and some of those on old topics decrease, as they do naturally with time. For a variety of reasons, a topic captures the attention of firefighters, and we have an increase in proposals on it. If the topic has real staying power and interest, after a run of time it becomes a regular topic and gets into our system as a fundamental. Such was the case with the“Saving Our Own”programs of the ’90s.自救/ ritwas recognized as important training; it lasted and passed the test of time. RIT and Saving Our Own have been institutionalized, modified, and absorbed into normal消防员培训在学生和持续的课程中。
Then we have the essentials, the classics:引擎那卡车那188abc金博宝 那and the always popular“back to basics.”每年，我们有几个伟大的文章和课程，就是为什么我们需要去back to the basics。The authors will point out how we have drifted, how the past generation lost their way, and how they with unique and unparalleled insights have rediscovered our roots.
These are great folks and smart firefighters who locally are reacting to what they are experiencing. And, to the point, we always need to be focused on the basics, always. But, curiously, what caught our attention as an industry for 2022 as reflected in the number of proposals FDIC received on it was a topic that, without question, has been the obsession of humans from time immortal:leadership。
要注意这样的事情的人说，没有讨论任何话题，没有关于它的话题，没有任何主题在它上的共识比领导力更少。我猜这是因为我们都在寻找领导者，我们希望的人会激励我们并给我们方向。在我们的行业中，我们没有缺乏书面领导材料，并且在写这些话时，正在制作更多。这是一个很好的事情 - 不同的人对不同的声音反应，不同的观点。
The fire service has been blessed in the past few years to witness great leaders in action: Peter Ganci, Leo Stapleton, andAlan Brunacini.在明显的全国和许多当地领导人，他们今天是领先的艺术组织。领导的问题是如此肠系，每个人都是一定程度的领导者。问题是，你是良好还是糟糕的？比你想象的更容易评估。
真正的领导者始终把原则放在其他一切原则之前。当有人首先投入意识形态或政治时，他分别为傻瓜或暴君;通常，他都是。想象一下，当他捍卫英国士兵的英国士兵们在1770年 - 不是一个简单的选择，而且是正确的选择，而是正确的选择。他了解良好代表权的原则和自卫权。没有年轻人希望长大成为内维尔尚林，这是伟大的绥靖者;不，他们想成为温斯顿丘吉尔。没有人想要被记得像本尼迪克特阿诺德一样;他们希望被纪念像乔治华盛顿。
德州人不记得吉姆鲍伊和戴维克克特因为他们逃跑了;不，他们站在他们的地上，为他们所认识的原则而战，争夺争夺和死亡。哈丽特坦克人不仅仅逃脱;她救出并争吵。Detrick Bonhoeffer返回德国独自诋毁纳粹。领导人争取个人;领导者反对“暴徒”，现状，而且强大的。他们采取不受欢迎的立场，但是他们可以与自己相处。对于他们举行的原则，上面提到的每个人都非常遭受了很大的遭受了很大的伤害。
为什么领导是如此燃烧的问题，现在可能被美国小说家G. Michael Hopf在他的书中解释Those Who Remain那in which he wrote, “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times.” The world has been, collectively speaking, experiencing very good times, and many would argue we are enduring very weak leaders. The strong protect the weak, stand for principles, respect the individual, honor their heritage, and unite and inspire others to good deeds.
这只是自然的firefighters那who have sworn an oath before God and their fellow firefighters to protect the threatened and defend the Constitution, the very definition of strong people, would be keenly interested in how we can become stronger, how we can stand for nature’s fundamental principles, and how we can lead others toward a better tomorrow.
