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Baptism of Fire
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Baptism of Fire
Informal; a difficult situation a company or manager is experiencing for the first time. Baptism of fire is generally thought to result in the company or manager's success or failure. Examples include the hiring of a new CEO at a time when a company is facing bankruptcy, or the entrance of a firm's first major competitor into the market.


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Fick's account of training, leadership, and combat is straightforward and unadorned, and he is refreshingly unselfconscious about his own baptism by fire.
The first match of Robertson's career was a baptism by fire, as she and her teammates played host to Oregon at MacArthur Court, one of the toughest venues in the country for a road team to compete.
had its baptism by fire during some of the heaviest urban combat Marines have been involved in since Hue City in Vietnam in 1968.
 
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