Los Angeles Fire Department Leadership Academy

Trust and Loyalty are key characteristics in Leadership.

Los Angeles Fire Department Leadership Academy graduate, facilitator and instructor. We are proud of our FIRE CHIEF, Kristen Crowley. Looking forward to your continued leadership 💪🏻.

🙏🏻 For the fallen and his family as well as our brothers and sisters of LACOFD 🔥

The Los Angeles Fire Department Leadership Academy sends our thoughts and prayers to the members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department and their famamilies affected by this tradegy.

RESPECT. IF YOU LEAD ➡️ OWN IT. 💪🏻 🇺🇸

If you always cater to consensus, you’re following, not leading.

People can identify their individual problems, but they don't always have the ideal collective solution.

A leader's responsibility is to consider different views and decide based on principles, not popularity.

- Adam Grant

The world is full of leaders with strong opinions and weak values.

What if we strive for the opposite: strong values and weak opinions?

Integrity depends on being consistent in your principles. Progress depends on being flexible in your policies.

- Adam Grant

LAFD Leadership Academy 2021 🇺🇸

There are so many sad examples: The father who can’t bear to be contradicted. The parents who refuse to admit when they are wrong. The mom who spends all her energy trying to impress other people. The father who is jealous of his own son, or threatened by the attention his daughter gets.

All these parental failings—and make no mistake; they are failings—share a root cause: Ego. A sensitive, fragile ego. In the way, the ego is the enemy of collaboration, of self-improvement, of kindness, and ultimately of most forms of success—whether you’re a president, athlete, millionaire, musician, whatever—it is also the enemy of the most important job you hold: Being a great parent.

Ego is not strength. It’s weakness. It makes you do things you regret. It projects your issues onto other people. It makes everyone suffer, including you, but mostly it is the young and the vulnerable who get caught in the blast radius of your ego explosion. They don’t know why you’re acting like this. They can’t understand the logic. They are being taught, by example, all the things you don’t want them to learn.

If you’re serious about being a good father, you must constantly sweep away your ego. You must constantly question that voice in your head; the one that drives you to always be right, to always be in charge, to bask in your own certainty.

Ego is the enemy. A good father is reasonable, calm, compassionate, willing to put others first. A good father isn’t fragile. A good father doesn’t care what people think, only what’s right. A good father wants their kids to do well, wants to be proven wrong if it makes things better. A good father is egoless.

- Daily Dad

“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not to enrich the leader.” — John C. Maxwell

LAFD Leadership Academy: Servant Leadership II - The Relief When you became a leader did you sit down and write out your leadership philosophy? In the Marine Corps, when one comes into command they take a weeklong course on how to be a commander,