5 reasons why Chief Grissom will be a terrible commissioner

3. He can’t make up his mind

As Chicago Fire has told us time and time again, being a leader requires the ability to make quick decisions and stand by those decisions. Carl Grissom may now be the leader of the city’s whole first department, but he waffles more than a Waffle House.

First he was going to retire and wanted Boden to take his position when he left. Then he wasn’t going to leave after all. And then he decided to not only stay in the department, but move up and challenge for Fire Commissioner.

First he came in wanting Kelly Severide to likewise look at moving up the ranks, because he cared so much about Severide and his future within the department. Then when Severide rebuffed the idea, suddenly Grissom turned against him.

Grissom’s mood, and what he wants to do, seems to change on a dime. That’s a terrible quality in anyone with authority, but even moreso when you’re the person at the top of the organizational chart.

He has to make some of the biggest decisions in the Chicago Fire Department. What’s going to happen if he changes his mind? Or he comes in and decides he’s ticked at someone? He’s totally unstable, and that’s dangerous when he’s the new man in charge.