What Wildfires Can Teach Executives About Leadership

Podcast: Fit Happens: Why CEOs and Leaders Succeed or Fail · Jason Baumgarten

Opublikowano: 2026-09-17

Why does experience in one crisis so often fail a leader in the next one? I open this episode with the story of the 1949 Mann Gulch wildfire, where foreman Wagner Dodge lit an escape fire to save his crew and nobody followed him. Thirteen men died. Forty five years later, at South Canyon, fourteen more firefighters died in strikingly similar circumstances, and I use both disasters to ask a question that matters far beyond wildland fire: why is it so hard to drop the tool that once made you successful? This episode is about what boards, investors...