Leadership in the Public Sector: Law Enforcement

Last week we discussed getting the right people on the bus and the wrong people off (by any means possible) (Collins, 2005) to have a great team.  This week’s blog post, most likely, will be the final blog entry to Leadership in the Public Sector: Law Enforcement .  I may resurrect the blog at some point later, most likely at the end of my law enforcement career, depending on where my law enforcement career takes me.   I would also like to establish a disclaimer concerning all blog entries for Leadership in the Public Sector: Law Enforcement , whereby I assert that any and all statements, opinions, references, and remarks are a product of an academic exercise.  I try to make sure my research is sound and comments that I make accurate and correct relative to the time in which I make them, understanding that statements, opinions, references, and remarks can change with a further understanding of the topic of leadership, as seen through the lens of law enforcement....

Last week discussed leaving a leadership legacy behind for others to appreciate and possibly emulate.   This week we will look at Jim Collins’  (2005) book Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great .  Specifically, we will look at how a leader gets the right people on the bus , or, in other words, how a leader gets the right people on the team. Good to Great and the Social Sectors ISBN: 978-0977326402 Collins  (2005) gives five issues that leaders must address to ensure that their organization achieves greatness above just being good.  We will discuss Collins’  (2005) Issue Three:  First Who – Getting the Right People on the Bus, within Social Sector Constraints  (p. 13) . Greatness at Any Level .  The genius of Collins’ assertion is that leaders can apply his method not only to the whole organization but effective leaders can use his approach to sub-units and teams to achieve g...

Last week’s blog posting dealt with the Dark Side of Leadership or Destructive Leadership in law enforcement.  This week we will focus what you will leave behind for others.  What is my Leadership Legacy? I ran across the idea of a Six-Word Memoir  (Smith, n.d.) while doing some research.  I decided that I would give you my six-word legacy as something about me to leave behind for others (hopefully to appreciate and in turn exhibit to others).  My six-word legacy is: The Road Less Traveled Led Here. I draw this from Robert Frost  (1969) and his poem The Road Not Taken , where the narrator makes a decision when faced with a choice while on a journey.  The genius of Frost allegorical message is that the meaning varies from reader to reader of the poem, and the verse speaks to the individual in simultaneity:   The Road Not Taken ~ Robert Lee Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not trav...