- We were ready, they weren't...40 Years after Newhall, Are We Applying Lessons Learned?
- When Violence Prevention Fails, Planning Must Enhance Strategy
- After Action Review: Is It a Tool Used to Learn and Become More Effective or a Tool Used to Punish?
- Maintaining Mental Calmness and Not Losing Our Cool
- Evolution of Strategy and Tactics to Ongoing Deadly Action "Active Shootings" and Operational Art
- Interaction, Insight and Imagination, and Initiative...The Building Blocks of Police Operational Art
- Coffee and Conversation: Is "Officer Friendly" a Factor to Consider in Engagements with Our Adversary?
- Coffee and Conversation: "Sharpening Our Orientation" and Reducing Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
- Coffee and Conversation: Police Make Mistakes But Seldom Admit Them! What's Reasonable?
- Coffee and Conversation: The Tactical Decision Maker: The Devil's Definitely in the Details
- Coffee and Conversation: "Self Awareness" The Forgotten Attribute of Decision Making
- Coffee and Conversation: Issues that Affect Law Enforcement and Security: Walking our Talk to Officer Safety
- Coffee and Conversation: Issues that Affect Law Enforcement and Security: The Inevitable Failure of Suburbia?
Sun Tzu the Art of War
Sun Tzu Part 7: Tactical Communication Posted at Information Security Resources
Submitted by Fred on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 4:40pm.By Fred Leland, Founder of LESC
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Plan an advantage by listening. Adjust to the situation. Get assistance from the outside. Influence events. Then planning can find opportunities and give you control. ~Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu also says “plan an advantage by listening.”
Leaders must make command decisions based on their training and character. By Gary Gagliardi
Submitted by Fred on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 5:29pm.“When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.” William James
"Which method of command works?
Which group of forces has the strength?" Sun Tzu's The Art of War 1:2:7
Sun Tzu Part 6: Art and Science of Methods: Posted at Information Security Resources
Submitted by Fred on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 7:05pm.By Fred Leland, Founder of LESC
Sun Tzu Part 5: Methods and Sound Tactics: Posted At Information Security Resources
Submitted by Fred on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 7:03pm.By Fred Leland, Founder of LESC
Finally you have your military methods. They shape your organization. They come from your management philosophy. You must master their use. ~Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu Part 4: Defining True Leadership Posted at Information Security Resources
Submitted by Fred on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 3:36pm.By Fred Leland, Founder of LESC
Next is the Commander. He must be smart, trustworthy, caring, brave, and strict. ~Sun Tzu
These qualities in my view describe a person’s character.
Sun Tzu for 21st century cops Lt. Dan Marcou
Submitted by Fred on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 8:40pm.Great article by LT Dan Marcou on Sun Tzu applied to WHAT WE DO!!! Great points…Take a look!
Fred
“When it is time to strike, strike like thunderbolts from the nine-layered heavens.” That is what Sun Tzu said more than 2,500 years ago. Except for the literary flare, the meaning is the same as something all police officers have heard said by their defensive tactics instructor: “Never spar with your opponent.”
Where Planning Is Needed By Gary Gagliardi of the Science of Strategy Institute
Submitted by Fred on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 1:07pm.The success of good planning is limited by you or your organization's span of control. The most valuable strategic planning takes place within the organization or among organizations that agree to work together, not on the competitive frontiers. The power of planning is in organization, operations, production not in dealing with competition. Planning is based on linear thinking. Its success is typified by the building of the railroads, the assembly line, and landing on the moon.
Misconceptions about Sun Tzu and Good Strategy by Gary Gagliardi
Submitted by Fred on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 7:25am.This article about the current financial crisis brilliant summarizes the skepticism about Sun Tzu in this quote from Lorelei Gilmore, a fictional character on the long-running “Gilmore Girls” sitcom:
“It’s a classic Sun Tzu ‘Art of War’ maneuver. If you’re being attacked from the east, attack whoever’s to your west, and you were the west. I never read the book. It’s full of crap like that.”
Sun Tzu Series Part 8: Interpersonal Communication: Doing What We Know How To Do, Better...in the Tactical Realm of Conflict
Submitted by Fred on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 12:02pm.Know yourself and know your enemy. You will be safe in every battle. You may know yourself but not know the enemy. You will then lose one battle for every one you win. You may not know yourself or the enemy. You will then lose every battle. ~Sun Tzu
When Sun-Tzu met Clausewitz: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and the invasion of Iraq by Dan Ford
Submitted by Fred on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 8:50am.A great article by Dan Ford on COL John Boyd’s OODA Loop which will help those new to Boyd theories in understanding the methodology of decision making via the Boyd Cycle at a much deeper level than just a simple cycle of OBSERVATION-ORIENTATION-DECISION & ACTION. When Sun-tzu met Clausewitz: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and the invasion of Iraq
