Leadership:
Law Enforcement and Leadership related articles.
Leadership: What is a leader?
By Sgt. Danny L. McGuire, Jr.
As we all know, leadership is one of the key elements to success in any field, not just Law Enforcement. Yet, many times police departments and tactical teams overlook this vital element and place someone in an important leadership position who is not qualified to lead, someone who does not want to lead, or someone who simply should not lead.
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Leadership part II: character and attitude.
By Sgt. Danny L. McGuire, Jr.
If we examine the aforementioned quote by the great UCLA Basketball Coach, John Wooden, a person’s character holds more credibility than a person’s reputation. To justify this point let us look at what character means. According to Merriam – Webster, character, as it relates to a person, is a compound of mental and ethical traits marking and often individualizing a person, group, or nation. Doctor John Bowling, President of Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois said character is the mental, relational, and ethical traits marking and often individualizing a person. Helen Keller said character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trail and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieve.
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Leadership—part III: the S.A.L.L.I.D. theory.
By Sgt. Danny L. McGuire, Jr.
I am about to make a bold statement with the intention of piquing your interests. The proclamation is this: Leadership is one of the most important contributing factors to the success or failure of tactical teams. Understanding that most people would concur with this audacious yet true statement, I recently had an opportunity to interview members of the tactical community for my research into tactical team leadership and training. These operators all made statements during the interviews which point in the direction that leadership does have an impact on team performance.
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Leadership—part IV: things to remember about leadership.
By Sgt. Danny L. McGuire, Jr.
Leadership The book, Leadership: The Warrior’s Art (Kolenda, 2001), stated effective leadership has been around since the days of Socrates and Plato. As a matter of fact one of Socrates’ pupils, Xenophon, stated that the true test of a leader is whether or not people will follow, of their own free will, even in times of immense hardship. The Greeks and Romans came up with the framework to address the issue of pietho (persuasion) and bia (force). Persuasion was used by leaders to influence human beings, which were separate from animals as humans possessed the gift of reason. Force was used by a tyrant and lacked reason as it was only fitting for beasts. Plato, in his Republic, illustrated this using the example of the Philosopher-King and the Tyrant and stated that a leader who possesses the art of caretaking is the true king or statesman.
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