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I'm not saying that a more educated officer corps will prevent those kinds of things from happening in a department, but I am saying that I believe that it will reduce the organizational risk to a large degree.

One thing that I do believe is that cases like this are to Fire and EMS leadership and management what the "a canary dying in a coal mine" meant to coal miners underground.

I can’t remember the first time I heard this phrase, and I couldn’t tell you how many times I heard it since, but it’s one I never forget. Perhaps you’ve heard it, too? Employees don’t leave the company. They leave their boss. Author Unknown

Many time as managers and supervisors we tend to use the terms responsibility, authority, and accountability interchangeably. These words are not synonyms, however, and when we use them as such we can create disharmony for ourselves and the people we work with. Read this piece and learn the power of these three words!