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CTP Group

A fire service leadership podcast.

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Episode 094 - Every...Single...One

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2022/08/14

Murder holes, force multipliers, and obstacles. All of them are components leading to what very well may be a unified theory of firefighters.

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Episode 093 - We Solve The Pay Problem

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2022/07/23

Spoiler Alert: we don’t really solve the pay problem. That would break a long-standing tradition on our podcast of not solving anything. But there are virtual arms races in some regions as departments raise salaries to compete for what seems to be an ever-shrinking pool of firefighters. Pay is one of those things that we’re all talking about, but we haven’t talked about. So, we took a stab at it.

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Episode 092 - That I May See

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2022/06/18

What happens when lightning doesn't strike a house, and you don't act like the other firefighters?

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Episode 091 - The Pathfinder Part III

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2022/05/29

And we wrap up our series on The Pathfinder with Part III, which picks up right where we left off at the end of Part II.

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Episode 090 - The Pathfinder Part II

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2022/05/18

We think that the Pathfinder concept is such an important one, that we actually recorded two separate episodes trying to get it right. But each episode went different directions, so they both ended up being valuable to the discussion.

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Episode 089 - Damned Sweet

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2022/04/16

What do a fire recruit, a 70’s sitcom, and Walt Disney have to do with regret?

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Episode 088 - The Pathfinder

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2022/03/12

Every organization has those persons who push the organization from the inside. They advocate passionately for change, but while they’re doing it they can cause discomfort for those around them. They challenge long-held assumptions. They champion new technologies and strategies. They hold up a beacon and ask everyone else to follow into unchartered territory. It’s important work to any successful organization, but it can be exceptionally frustrating for those who are either appointed by the

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Episode 087 - The Ship of Theseus

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2021/12/03

This isn’t really an outtake; it’s just a topic that wasn’t really large enough to devote an entire episode to. Bill, all by his lonesome, talks into the mic about the paradox of The Ship of Theseus and what that means for organizational identity…and maybe all of us.

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Episode 086 - Be Wrong Or Do Nothing?

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2021/10/24

A listener asked us: “At what point is a wrong decision actually worse than no decision at all?” It’s a great starting point for a roving conversation that gets into whether results matter in that calculus. We also rehash our earlier debate on the nature of luck in the fire service (Episode 082), what the role of intent is, how Pabel dissects an incident moving forward and Bill goes backwards, and the difference between being wrong and making a mistake.

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Episode 085 - On Hallowed Ground with Eriks Gabliks

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2021/09/24

The National Fire Academy is the home of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial; hallowed ground for any firefighter. To borrow a phrase from President Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, PA (just 12 miles north of the NFA), the memorial on the NFA campus reminds us “that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.” While Bill was at the National Fire Academy for two weeks in

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Episode 084 - For Bill Smith, A Battle Buddy

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2021/09/03

On June 6, 2021, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Smith gave his life while saving others who got caught in a rip current off the Alabama shore. Two of our podcast crew (Shane and Bill V.) worked for Bill Smith for years before Bill retired as Deputy Chief of Operations for Dekalb County and went on to his second career in law enforcement. Receiving the news that Bill died while saving others was a shock to both of them, but not a surprise since that was very much who Bill Smith was. Last

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Episode 083 - What's Better: To Be Liked or Respected?

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2021/07/21

As is the case with many of our episodes, we didn’t set out to make an episode about this. It actually was just a spirited conversation that we were having when we realized we should hit the record button. Is it better to be liked or respected? What is the relationship between the two? And what are the advantages of being liked, respected, or even both? Can you truly be both?

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Episode 082 - Firefighter Luck

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2021/06/08

How do we as firefighters deal with luck? How honest are we about what part luck plays in our successes? More specifically, how much do we count on the same luck at our next fire? That’s where we start anyway, and we don’t exactly see eye to eye about it in the beginning. But that discussion moves to a very open conversation about how we evaluate our performance on fire scenes, and the process by which each of us thinks we should be judging ourselves.

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Episode 081 - What Do You Do When You Don't Get...

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2021/04/02

You make the case that you’re the best person for the next step up; only you don’t get chosen. What do you do then? When does a natural amount of disappointment turn into an unhealthy perception of being slighted? How hard is it to get behind the person who got promoted instead of you? And what about those folks who choose to burn the organization down when they aren’t promoted? In this episode, we discuss what we each personally have done after not getting chosen, what we wish we did better after

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Episode 080 - Joy, the Job, and Some Questions from...

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2021/03/15

For this episode, we talk with “backstep” Firefighter Austin Kohler, who is only a few years into his career in the fire service. We ask him what he enjoys about the job, and what he didn’t expect about it. And about halfway through, we give Austin the upper-hand and let him ask us questions like: How do you perfect your craft in a position without the upper echelon thinking you're a “turd” for not wanting to move up? Who was the best Driver Operator you ever worked with? And what’s the difference

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Episode 079 - Planning, Preparation, and Pivoting...

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2021/02/21

The book Leadership On The Line says a plan “is no more than today’s best guess.” So why do some in our profession get so attached to their plan that they can’t see when their plan has lost all chance to succeed? In this episode, we sit down with Louie Bruno to talk about planning and preparation. Louie’s experiences in Technical Rescue for the last eight years have given him some valuable insight into the merits of planning, as well as the benefits of knowing when to pivot and rely on your

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Episode 078 - The Tenth Man

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2021/01/31

What you’re about to hear wasn’t really ever intended to be an episode. It was a side conversation that took place during a recording session in December 2019 that we just happened to record. We sat on it for over a year, but we’ve decided it’s something others should hear. It’s about what to do with a great idea before you try to implement it, and how your “great” idea can be even better. It first has to be exposed to the crucible of “The Tenth Man” -- a process like forging iron that will subject

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Episode 077 - A Challenge for 2021, Hal Moore, and...

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2020/12/31

We’re issuing all of our listeners a challenge in 2021. It’s only nine minutes long, but the effects could last for many years to come if you’re willing to take us up on it.

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Episode 076 - A Better Version of Yourself?

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2020/11/06

We’ll wager there isn’t a firefighter in the fire service who isn’t an advocate of training. But when you call that training “higher education” you start to get somewhat mixed reactions. Make higher education a prerequisite for some promotions, and now you’ve probably got some real disagreement. What’s the correct balance between experience, training, and formal education? How do you measure experience against the other two? Which of them, if any, are indispensable? And if you’ve got formal

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Episode 075 - A Risky Episode: Building Your Team of...

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2020/08/30

How do you figure out if someone is good for your team? Good for the organization? Good for you as a leader? What does it mean to build a diverse team, and how can different skillsets, talents, and perspectives be beneficial? Can they fill in the gaps that the team has, or that you don’t fill yourself? And when does it become unhealthy? When do differing opinions, or goals, or approaches become an obstacle to success? In this episode, we attempt to answer all of those questions. Then Pabel proposes

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