BY DENNIS L. RUBIN
经过多年的准备included extensive training, education, and experience, you have been selected as your community's fire department chief. The application process, consultant's written assignments, personal interviews, jockeying for positioning, due-diligence background investigations, and political wrangling are over, and the process is completed. You have been selected to be the next person to wear all five speaking trumpets on your collar insignias. Tremendous congratulations are in order for your latest accomplishment! Now it is a time to celebrate your elevation to the corner office and finally having been selected to serve as the top firefighter in your department. With all of that behind you, it would seem as if it would be time to rest and enjoy what you have worked so hard to acquire. Right?
As the dust settles and you move into that office you have been sizing up for the past 25 years, you still have a lot of work left to do. What should you do first? How can you prioritize the steps you will take to leave your mark on this agency? Is there a checklist or some kind of a guide for a new chief?
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