消防服务和人类长期以来一直研究并热情地研究了领导力的话题。据说，关于这个话题的文字比其他任何话题都要多，当您看我们当前的政治领导人时，这令人惊讶。领导力对于帮助激发，指导和维护消防服务至关重要。领导与管理和管理一样至关重要，就像指挥艺术的组成部分一样。消防官是指挥官；他们拥有法律和组织权威，在可能威胁生命的动态情况下，将消防员引导采取行动的责任和权利。指挥消防员的消防员是要承担受害者和救援人员的安全和生存能力的责任。指挥火场是指导消防人员如何向公众和彼此行动。
The fire service is based in command. It is not leadership you need to exhibit on the fireground; it is command. A good commander will lead when appropriate, will manage when management is called for, and will enforce regulations and rules when that is what the situation requires. A truly elegant commander will also recognize when it is appropriate to bend the rules or allow for a deviation from the strict interpretation of the rule book. To command requires that the commander set the moral standards of behavior and deportment necessary to ensure that the public can trust and support the firefighters and that the firefighters can trust and support each other.
To command within the fire service means to assess and judge; this requires specialized knowledge and then the ability to communicate that assessment so that firefighters can understand and carry out the commander’s intentions. Commanding, then, is to assess and decide, to interpret and moralize, and to act and exercise authority. Recently, two very different incidents required two different commanders to use all of their specialized knowledge and all of their long-practiced judgment and tested their moral courage.
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