Until a few years ago I was placing my entire retirement stake on my pension and 401K investments. After I began to work with a financial planner, my view and plan drastically changed.
Archive of the Chris DeChant Category
Pay Now or Pay Later
Your Organization’s Path: Choice or Chance?
What is your organizational definition of strategy? Is it based on emergency response or administrative concepts? Until recently, my organization, like many others, was focused on a definition of strategy that was used only in conjunction with fireground tactics.
Manage Technology, or It Will Manage You
After receiving an invitation from FIRE CHIEF Editorial Director Janet Wilmoth to contribute to the magazine’s new blog, I began to ponder my first topic. A corollary between my article Task Master in the March issue of FIRE CHIEF and the overarching challenge of managing technology for chief officers immediately surfaced as a central focus.
