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Regina Fazio Maruca. “Fighting the Urge to Fight Fires: A Conversation with Carl Holmes.” Harvard Business Review (November–December 1999).
In this concise “Forethought” piece, Carl Holmes, formerly chief of the Oklahoma City Fire Department, discusses how hard it is to hand off responsibility to others when you’ve worked your way through the ranks. There’s always the temptation to perform the very tasks you’re supposed to be overseeing. But delegating responsibility is a critical part of being a good leader. Nowhere is that fact more apparent than in the field of firefighting, where efficient leadership can literally mean the difference between life and death. Holmes describes the radical steps he took to get his battalion ...
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