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Sense-making in the fire service during COVID-19

What we know

8 min readApr 10, 2020

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Sense-making in the fire service during COVID-19

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Eric Saylors

Succession planning in the fire service

A leader who is not developing the people he serves is a leader in appearance only.

7 min readDec 12, 2019

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Succession planning in the fire service

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Fire service leadership constructs

Below you will find tenets of leadership divided into sections: a leadership overview, attributes of leaders, levels of leadership…

2 min readDec 12, 2019

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Fire service reading list

As a starting point, I’ve assembled a list of books designed to incorporate the science of hard and soft skills. From complexity science…

2 min readDec 12, 2019

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Fire service reading list

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The Shape of Risk

The following is a summary of my presentation at the “Center for Homeland Security and Defense Education Summit.”

2 min readOct 31, 2019

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The Shape of Risk

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Command NOT Control — The 4th Generation of Firefighting

4th gen. firefighting bends the policies to the incident, not the incident to the policies.

4 min readSep 28, 2019

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Command NOT Control — The 4th Generation of Firefighting

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Rescue task force is not a strategy, it is a tactic

The challenge of the Rescue task force is a case of “Always doing things right, but not always doing the right thing.”

9 min readMay 1, 2019

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Rescue task force is not a strategy, it is a tactic

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Towards Data Science

Thinking of “Risk“ in the Fire Service

The Metaphor

7 min readJun 8, 2018

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Thinking of “Risk“ in the Fire Service

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Firefighters are not machines; they need sleep.

The quote “I’ll have plenty of time to sleep when I am dead.[i]” is a self-fulling prophecy. Lack of sleep is an early death sentence, and…

6 min readJan 6, 2018

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Firefighters are not machines; they need sleep.

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Fire Departments are not businesses; They are critical infrastructure

Imagine if your doctor prescribed a daily dose of cocaine to maximize the production of your heart. After concluding your heart is…

7 min readAug 30, 2017

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Fire Departments are not businesses; They are critical infrastructure

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Eric Saylors

Eric Saylors

Firefighter, futurist, instructor, Doctorate, and 3rd gen firefighter with a Masters degree in security studies from the Naval Post Graduate School

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