What better to start the a new year than a brush up on leadership skills and practices. L. David Marquet’s second book is Leadership is Language – The Hidden Power of What You Say…and What You Don’t. This book is full of examples of how language can facilitate success or lead to failure. David Marquet is a retired US Navy Captain and commanded the U.S.S. Santa Fe, a nuclear attack submarine. His first book, Turn the Ship Around details how he turned the poorly performing Santa Fe into a best in class award winner. Both books are loaded with concepts and practices that can and should be used in the Fire Service. You can also find David Marquet’s Leadership Nudges on YouTube. Subscribe and check out his short weekly videos to keep you engaged and thinking about leadership.

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Jan 05, 2020

Firefighter dies after falling into the basement due to floor collapse at a modular home structure fire – Missouri.

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History from Historyplace.com:

January 5, 1919 – German Communists in Berlin led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht attempted to take over the government by seizing a number of buildings. However, ten days later, they were both assassinated by German soldiers.

January 5, 1919 – The German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) was founded by Anton Drexler in Munich. Adolf Hitler became member No. 7 and changed the name in April of 1920 to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) commonly shortened to Nazi or Nazi Party.

January 5, 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming became the first female governor inaugurated in the U.S.

January 5, 1968 – Alexander Dubcek became first secretary of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party. He introduced liberal reforms known as “Communism with a human face” which resulted in Soviet Russian troops invading Prague to crack down.

January 5, 1972 – President Richard Nixon signed a bill approving $5.5 billion over six years to build and test the NASA space shuttle.

January 5, 1976 – In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot announced a new constitution which legalized the Communist government and renamed the country as Kampuchea. During the reign of Pol Pot, over 1 million persons died in “the killing fields” as he forced people out of the cities into the countryside to create an idyllic agrarian society. Educated and professional city people were especially targeted for murder and were almost completely annihilated. In January of 1979, the Pol Pot was overthrown by Cambodian rebels and Vietnamese troops.