Combustible CTP Group
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A fire service leadership podcast.
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Episode 103 - What Would Ted Do?
Whenever you lose your way as a leader, you can always ask yourself, “What would Ted do?”
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Episode 102 - Building Experience And Turning It Into Expertise
In this episode, we dive into how firefighters’ decision-making process works, and how critically reliant that process is on experience. So, where are we missing opportunities to build experience and convert it to expertise?
We’ve come up with a new concept called DIFOS that is a series of questions that can be asked to really examine how a decision-making process evolved. It can be used on-scene after a fire or in any situation where an important decision was made. -
Episode 101 - Bob Maynard Part III - The Black Box
In Part 3 of our interview we pick up where we left off and get into how we evaluate accidents in the fire service, what we might be able to learn about that process from the airline industry, how to remove dominoes, and we give Bob “The Questions.”
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Episode 100 - Bob Maynard Part II - Purposeful Non-Compliance
Bob is the first guest we’ve had to show up to the recording with a powerpoint presentation. And while that gave us a chuckle, it’s a presentation filled with concepts that blew us away…and it’s a presentation that he threw together the day before. There’s a lot here, and we barely scratched the surface on some of it, but we really dig into purposeful non-compliance in Part 2.
We also discuss getting everyone dialed in on paying attention on scene, as well as teaching all of our folks to speak up when they see something they think may be important. We also discuss what accident investigation in the airline industry may hold for the fire service, heuristics, and Bob throws in a literal war story from Vietnam about tunnel vision. -
Episode 099 - Bob Maynard Part 1: The Most Interesting Man In The World
Bob Maynard is Shane’s father-in-law, and he just happens to also be one of the most interesting people we’ve ever met. Highlights from his past include Chinook helicopter pilot during Vietnam, personal pilot of one of our leadership idols, did 20 years with the FAA, and now runs his own company training pilots to fight forest fires. And while he’s never fought a fire in his life, a LOT of what he knows about flying directly applies to the fire service.
In Part 1 of our interview with Bob, we begin to explore purposeful non-compliance - when you know you shouldn’t do something, but for some reason do it anyway. -
Episode 098 - Technical Expertise vs. Judgment
This episode started with the deceptively simple question, “At what level in your organization do people begin to feel and act as if they are valued more for their judgment than for their technical expertise?” We applied that question to our own experience in fire departments, but it’s an interesting question for any organization. And that’s just the jumping off point for a discussion on the nature of judgment, what experience has to do with it, and the other ways you can build and strengthen your judgment.
Customer Reviews
Great info!
The 20 or so episodes of “America Burning” really saved my butt!! I was having issues with getting the report for my class and found these guys had read the whole report! I was able to write my report and really enjoyed the book as well. Thank you for reading the book not only for me but for all firefighters who are interested in the reason for a national fire academy. Thank you!
Combustible
Captivating and very informational. I Especially like when the lifelong retired guys get on the show. I have listened to the two Todd Edwards episodes a handful of times. Keep doing what y’all are doing! 👊
Great Insight
Interesting and insightful conversations that are applicable throughout the fire service.