About this episode

Fire Captain Mark Andrew shares leadership lessons learned in the fire service, emphasizing the importance of trust, communication, and decision making.

When leadership gets real, titles stop mattering and habits take over. Fire Captain Mark Andrew joins me to share what he’s learned leading in the fire service, where trust, communication, and decision making aren’t abstract leadership ideas. They are the difference between a smooth operation and a dangerous one. We dig into why so many people are promoted without real leadership training, then fall back on outdated models they inherited from the leaders before them. Mark walks me through a ...

People in this episode

Host: Mick Spiers

Guest: Mark Andrew

Topics covered

• leadership
• fire service
• trust
• communication
• decision making
• training
• organizational behavior

Keywords

• leadership
• fire captain
• trust
• communication
• decision making
• leadership training
• organizational behavior

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: fire service

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