{"id":2379,"date":"2023-12-06T00:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T00:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/fire-fighting-or-fire-prevention\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:50","slug":"fire-fighting-or-fire-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/fire-fighting-or-fire-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7137956134505631746>Fire fighting or fire prevention?<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire fighting or fire prevention?<\/p>\n<p>Many high achievers love fighting fires &#8211; they swoop in, figure out what&#8217;s wrong, and solve the problem. They get an adrenaline high, and positive feedback for saving the day.<\/p>\n<p>What isn&#8217;t regularly recognized is the person who put in place a process that prevented the problem from ever occurring. Nothing happened, so it seems like they didn&#8217;t do anything, because it&#8217;s harder to see what fires would have erupted if they hadn&#8217;t anticipated those problems and pre-emptively handled them.<\/p>\n<p>I work with a lot of executive clients who are transitioning from fighting fires to fire prevention, and it&#8217;s emotionally hard on them because they no longer get immediate positive feedback. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this post to remind everybody that anticipating problems and preventing them is quiet, unsung work, so please appreciate those people in your organization.<\/p>\n<p>#executive #leadership #emotionalintelligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire fighting or fire prevention? Many high achievers love fighting fires &#8211; they swoop in, figure out what&#8217;s wrong, and solve the problem. They get an adrenaline high, and positive feedback for saving the day. What isn&#8217;t regularly recognized is the person who put in place a process that prevented the problem from ever occurring&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4441,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}