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Article: PART 7: Leadership Competencies.(Professional Development)
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- EMS Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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PART 7: Leadership Competencies
By John Erich, Associate Editor
The graying of America's Baby Boomers has implications beyond just the public we serve. It's also likely to impact many of the nation's emergency-services organizations internally.
In suburban Portland, OR, a quick glance half a decade or so down the road drives that point home with one alarming statistic: Clackamas Fire District #1, which serves 180,000 citizens in large and growing Clackamas County southeast of the city, stands to lose 80% of its top management in the next six years.
Those leaders will need to be replaced. And that's a process that has to begin now.
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