Hearts Aren’t Always Red | FF37

How my Wife and I Made it To 20 Years of Marriage (and How You Can Too!) | PPP #88

Sharing 10 things (5 from my wife, 5 from me) we felt helped us make through the first 20 years of our marriage.

Brighten Someone Else’s Day Today | FF36

Inspired by a beautiful sunrise, cool mountain air and a quote from Jhiess Krieg. Through little things we can help make someone else stay better and...

Just Start Dancing | FF35

Sharing my two cents on a key tenant my wife and I have practiced and are now two decades of marriage.

These are the Key Components of A Home or Garage Gym | PPP #87

In addition to the myriad of body weight exercises, in this episode I share 5 items that are accessible, relatively cheap and mostly mobile that will...

Embracing "Good" by Jocko Willink | FF34

Sharing how Jocko Willink's "Good" helps frame my mindset during hard times and how we can all benefit from accepting hardship and looking for the "Go...

How America Made it to and Established the Labor Day Holiday | PPP #86

A poem to pay homage to all that contributed to America and the hardships that lead us to Labor Day.

To Push or Pull Communications? | FF33

When considering our communications strategies we should think about what we want to push to people, what we want to set up as a pull of information t...

How to Plan for and Execute Effective Communication Plans | PPP #85

Finishing out the 'Foundational 5' series with a definition of 'communication', importance of vertical and horizontal comms, the C.U.D.C. concept, act...

People - Our Most Valuable Resource | FF32

Reminders of the concepts of resource Kinds, Types and CSALTT for resource ordering. Resources to help U.S. Military families and our Afghan allies. T...

Best Practices to Request and Coordinate Resources | PPP #84

Sharing tips on how to effectively request, coordinate, care for and release resources for Incident Management Teams (IMT), Project Teams and more!

How to Create an Effective Team Organizational Structure | PPP#83

Whether functional, geographic based or a combination of both, pulling together a working organizational structure is key to meet program objectives a...

Learn to Create S.M.A.R.T. Objectives for Safer and More Effective Projects and Responses | PPP #82

Sharing background, guidance and tips to create S.M.A.R.T. objectives for response, special events or projects

How to Provide Leader's Intent by Providing the Task, Purpose, and End State | FF29

Pulling out three key elements of Leaders Intent from NWCG discussed in PPP81.

Here's How to Give and Receive Leader's Intent | PPP #81

From Commander's Intent in the U.S. Military to Leader's Intent applied by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and Lean teams, this first of the...

What Is Your Kryptonite? | FF28

Just as Superman faces his enemies when they have his weakness kryptonite as a weapon, we as normal people can face our own weaknesses every day.

What Hiking a Mile High Can Teach Project Managers | PPP #80

Sharing 5 lessons learned from a family trip to Mt. Rogers, Virginia that can be applied to the professional world.

We Must Make Time to Disconnect | FF27

The benefits of getting into nature and disconnecting from work and technology for a bit are many. In this week’s episode I share my feedback on my op...

Leverage Differences in Your Team | FF26

Our children, our fire engine crews and our project teams are filled with people that have various strengths. As leaders we have opportunity to levera...

Let them Grow Up Some More | FF25

Inspired by the movie “Glory”. Sometimes as parents and as project managers we need to let our people face a little bit of adversity so they can come...