Sun Tzu Series Part 1: Analysis and Strategic Positioning for Law Enforcement and Security (Discuss Philosophy) | Law Enforcement & Security Consulting

Discipline: The Lost Art of Leadership
How Do We Develop Adaptability?
Improve the Work…Develop the People
Incident Strategy and Tactics: The Baby Diaper Analogy
Adaptive Leaders …Develop Strength of Character
How About Some Empathy, Please?
Get Into the Sandbox, Think and Play and Let’s Inspire… Adaptability
Stoning The Gatekeepers: Is It Not Time Society Attempts To Better Understand Police Use of Force?
First-Line Supervisors Do The Most Important Training
Why Tactical Decision Games? Because They Challenge The Status Quo & Emphasize Tactical Options In Developing Courses of Action.
Why Does Understanding The OODA Loop Matter to Cops?
How Do You Develop Strength of Character and Adaptive Leaders?
Adaptive Leadership Handbook: Innovative Ways to Teach and Develop Your People Will It Help Your Department Be More Effective?
Don’t Fear Failure; Instead Make Failure Your Classroom
In Forging Adaptability…Distinguish Technical Problems from Adaptive Challenges
The Doctor in SWAT School (and What His Performance Says About Police Culture)
Designing Law Enforcement: Adaptive Strategies for the Complex Environment by John A. Bertetto
Guest Post: Toward a Police Ethos: Defining Our Values as a Call to Action by John Bertetto
Adaptability is Key in Handling Crisis Situations…Be In Command and Out Of Control
For Meaningful Lasting Results, Get Into the Weeds…and Identify Root Causes
Want to get better and be safer? Debrief!
How to Forge Adaptability in Police Leaders and Culture
Adaptive Leadership is Purposeful Learning in Real Time
Book Review: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and The World
Growing Leaders Who Practice Mission Command and Win the Peace, Lt. Col. Douglas A. Pryer, U.S. Army
Achieving Greatness by Giving Control and Creating Leaders
Choosing Adaptability by Gary Gagliardi and The Science of Strategy Institute
The Review of Boyd & Beyond 2013…..
Have You Thought About Why You Choose To Lead?
Incident Command: the big picture by Louis Hayes
Understanding the OODA Loop by Derek Stephens
The Cops Amaze Me by Bob Lonsberry
I Am An Optimist. It Does Not Seem Too Much Use Being Anything Else!
Mike Rayburn Asks…What Makes A Good Street Cop?
Fighting the good fight with moral clarity by Lt. Dan Marcou
Are Gated Communities Really Secure?
Top 25 Criminal Justice Blogs We made the list at # 3
Incident Command: the team cohesion aspect of the SitRep
Book Review: Always Picked Last: Conquering the Bullies: A Guide To Finding Your Way in Life…
To Continuously Improve We Must Set Boundaries and Expectations
Elite Performance…Takes WORK? Say it ain’t so!
Create Your Fantasy Island Organizational Culture by Tracey Richardson
Have You Stopped a Car Today? Improving Patrols Tactical Effectiveness with Vehicle Stops
Incident Command: Communicating the Situation and Location By Louis Hayes
Incident Command: a problem-solving approach By Louis Hayes
SWAT Cop Says American Neighborhoods Are ‘Battlefields,’ Claims Cops Face Same Dangers As Soldiers In Afghanistan
Overmilitarization: Why Law Enforcement Needs to Scale Down Its Use of Military Hardware and Tactics By Evan Bernick
John Boyd’s Art of War Why our greatest military theorist only made colonel. By William S. Lind
Police militarization and rise of the warrior journalist by Lance Eldridge
Strategic Studies Institute: Cartel Car Bombings in Mexico Authored by Dr. Robert J. Bunker, Mr. John P. Sullivan
To Strengthen And Preserve Cohesion Your Values…Equal Their Values
Another Must Read Book From Don Vandergriff: “The Path To Victory” Revised Kindle Version with a new foreword
Safe Streets, Overruled By Heather McDonald of the City Journal
Must Read Book On Leader Development, Updated Kindle Addition: Don Vandergriff’s, Raising The Bar:
Brian Willis Offers Great Info on Defeating…The Enemy Of Innovation
Police militarization and the Ethical Warrior By Jack E. Hoban & Bruce J. Gourlie
“A Way” To Develop a Toxic Leader: How We as Leaders Create Our Own Monsters
The Guy Behind the Guy, Behind the Guy: A Case for Taking our Roles More Seriously
Flatenning the Decision Cycle in Tactical Units
Tactical Supervision: Coaches and Chessplayers: Guest Post By Louis Hayes
To effectively function in the initial, chaotic stages of a crisis, develop adaptive leaders
FEAR VS COURAGE: IT’S YOUR CHOICE By Danny Cox
Skid Row Terrorist
Col John Boyd: Question and Answer Video
Great Piece on Adaptability by Brian Willis: The Dinosaur versus The Cockroach Training Model
The Psychotic Militarization of Law Enforcement
The Missing Piece of NIMS: Teaching Incident Commanders How to Function in the Edge of Chaos by Police Chief, Cynthia Renaud
The Human Problem? by Frank Borelli an Officer.com article
From Police One 3 techniques for controlling your brain with Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D.
Great Article From Police One with Val Van Brocklin: How to create ‘fierce followers’ in law enforcement
Deadly Force: Have We Lost Our Senses? Guest Post by Louis Hayes
Tactical Philosophy 101 A Guest Post by Louis Hayes
Leadership in Unconventional Crises
Unconventional Crises, Unconventional Responses: Reforming Leadership in the Age of Catastrophic Crises and “Hyper complexity”
JOHN BOYD WAS A PATRIOT, A MORAL LEADER, AND A BONAFIDE VISIONARY. AND YES, HE WAS A MAVERICK.
Force Science Research Study: The Influence of Officer Positioning on Movement During a Threatening Traffic Stop Scenario
Guest Post: Adaptive Decision-Making by Sid Heal
“More Better,” Ideals, and To Be or To Do: Guest Post by Scott Shipman
Learning Like an Expert: A Guest Post by Marshall Wallace
What Represents a High Level of Professionalism?
This Memorial Day Remember: The Path of The Warrior
School Security: Sharing and Enhancing Best Practices
Guest Post by Michael G. Moore: Boyd’s Snowmobile …or what made Alexander “The Great”
Coffee Pots and Baseball Bats: Household Items Offer Protection
Learning to Adapt With A Professional Reading Program
Boyd and Beyond 2013
Guest Post by Tyana Daley: Developing Law Enforcement Leaders and Nurturing Smart Thinkers
Somewhere Between Born and Made: Where Good Leaders Come From
Is Today Your Day?
Guest Post by John Demand: “You look for the bomb…we look for the bomber”
What Do OODA Loop’s Mean to the Street Cop, Wanting To Become “World Class” Tacticians?
The Psychology of a Boston Marathon Terrorist: 10 Questions for a Retired Marine
Watching Boston “Work Together” Made Me Proud to Be a Police Officer
What Makes a “World Class” Tactically Proficient Peacekeeper?
Tactical Decision Games to Increase Speed and Maturity of Problem Solving: The Lessons Learned
The Path to Better Execution in Seeing, Understanding and Solving Complex Problems is a Learning Organization
A Systemic Concept for Operational Design: a Robust Tool Law Enforcement Should Use in Preparing for Chaotic Crisis
How shift debriefings can improve officer safety Published at P1
Boyd and Beyond Boston 2013: Balancing Pursuasion and Force in The Moral, Mental and Physical Dimensions of Conflict
Don Vandergriff, Discusses: Misinterpretation and Confusion: What is Mission Command?
Huddling-Up To Acheive Successful Law Enforcement Outcomes
Building Cohesive Law Enforcement Agencies That Can Decide In Crisis Situations
Mistakes ultimately ended ex-LA cop’s rampage
Red Teaming The Workplace Violence Shooter and The “MR. Uncomfortable Factor”
Top 30 Criminal Justice Blogs of 2012 : LESC is Number 5!
Showing Up Is Overrated. Necessary But Not Nearly Sufficient. Can Taking An “Interest” In What You Do Enhance Performance?
Handling Dynamic Encounters…Go Get Him, Or Set Him Up To Get Him…With An Adaptable Response
Shift Debriefings: How Can We Be More Deliberate, More Disciplined, and More Thorough in our Approach to Learning?
AOW Card Deck Lesson 6: Provoke Your Adversary’s Reaction
Does Mass Violence Unfold Randomly and Chaotic or is There Hidden Order We Can Leverage in Our Prevention Efforts?
Police One Column: 13 questions to answer in 2013: What has 2012 taught you about officer safety and effectiveness?
Take Small Steps, Towards, Lifelong Learning In 2013
Positive Adaptive Leadership…Tools and Tips and Critical Questions To Explore in 2013 Inspired by Many Of Those I Follow
AOW Card Deck Lesson 5: Sheath Your Sword
AOW Card Deck Lesson 4: Score A Small Victory Along The Way
In Mastering Tactics Shouldn’t We Be Blending Policy and Procedures with People and Ideas?
Ready, Aim, Ready?
IMPLEMENTATION (OODA LOOP OR BOYD’S CYCLE) by Sid Heal
AOW Card Deck Lesson 3: Engage Your Adversary From Many Directions
AOW Card Deck Lesson 2: Lure The Tiger Out Of The Mountain
AOW Card Deck Lesson 1: Catch Your Adversary Sleeping
The Art of War: Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck…Simple, Yet, Great Tool for Developing Strategic and Tactical Mindset
“Certain men…come to be accepted guardians and transmitters, instructors, of established doctrines…
On Vision
Book Review: The Rite of Return: Coming Back From Duty Induced PTSD
Restoring the Wounded Spirit
Deciding Under Pressure…and Fast: You Need to Understand the Concept of “Coup d’oeil”
How Do Adaptive Leaders Think?
Capt Evan Bradley on Boyd, Adaptability and Understanding the Bigger Picture in Conflict
Captain Lindsay Rodman On Boyd and Taking Ownership of What You Do!
William McNulty-Team Rubicon: Boyd, Applied to Disaster Response
Heroes Behind the Badge
Chet Richards On Boyd…Is Your Orientation, Matched to Reality?
Col GI Wilson on Boyd, Bureaucracy, Insight, Imagination, Intent and Implementation
What hath Boyd wrought? With Remarks
John Boyd, Conceptual Spiral, and the meaning of life
Boyd and Beyond 2012, Quantico, VA — a quickie recap by Scott Shipman
Finished Gung Ho! The Corps Most Progressive Tradition
Dangerous Minds – The Relationship between Beliefs, Behaviors, and Tactics
Guest Post: Super Cops – Can we create them??? “Yes you can!”
“The importance of a proper command system…
“Leaders gain confidence and become more tactically and technically proficient…
Help staff practice thinking on their feet to prepare for emergencies
More On, Gung Ho! Out of Seeming Defeat May Have Sprung Great Potential
Latest P1 Column: The anatomy of victory (part two): Victory at minimal cost
Chapter 1 Review of “Gung Ho! The Corps’ Most Progressive Tradition
Latest P1 Column: The anatomy of victory (part one): What does it take to win?
Proper Police Action Requires…What?
P1 Column: Patterns of behavior, officer safety, and ‘the rule of opposites’
Be agile and win:
Why Boyd is Agile
Destruction & Creation: Are You Locked on One Way of Thinking or Are You Adaptable, Approaching Tactical Dilemmas?
Book Review: Deadly Force: Firearms and American Law Enforcement, from the Wild West to the Streets of Today
The power of a handshake!
Winning at Low Cost: No better friend, no better role model, no better diplomat and, no worse enemy
“The most efficient way to get the behavior you’re looking for is to find positive deviants and…
Book Review: Police Instructor: Deliver Dynamic Presentations, Create Engaging Slides & Increase Active Learning
“Organizations by their very nature involves a series of balances…
“Of every 100 men you send to fight, 10 shouldn’t even be there. Eighty are…
Column at Police One: Mental toughness and the power to adapt
Mental Attitude Can Be Negative or Positive
The Anatomy of Victory: What Does It Take To “Win”at Low Cost?
“They can’t understand why their parent organizations didn’t better prepare them…
Counter-Ambush Tactics: Thinking Tactically and Doing What You Know How To Do On The Street
Train To Make a Difference! A Decrease in Officer Fatalities in 1st Quarter of 2012
“They prefer to achieve their results by…
Part 2: Train the brain: Using decision making critiques to leverage lessons learned: Published at Police One
“Wild animals are taken by scouting, by nets, by lying in wait, by stalking…
“If one has never personally experience war…
Chet Richards On: Boyd’s Really Real OODA Loop
Destruction and Creation
A Video Biography of COL John Boyd
Book Review: Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
Book Review: Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman
Train the brain: Using tactical decision games in training Published at POLICE ONE
OODA Loops: The Explorer Mentality…And Recognizing Patterns of Behavior
OODA Loop & Human Reaction Time
The Leaders Ultimate Reward: ‘I saw Someone Grow today, and I Helped’
Where Have All the Warriors Gone? A Spot On Article, Every Cop Should Read
Should Street Cops, Break Routines…and Think?
Broken Windows…A Powerful Strategy, When Applied Robustly
Lessons from SWAT the Street Cop Can Use on The Three Speeds of Operations
Law enforcement interaction with the dangerously mentally ill
Tip: Have an ‘exit’ strategy on vehicle stops
What Those We Train Say About Us
Mastering Tactics with Decision Making Exercises and Critiques
The OODA loop, reaction time, and decision making
Leaders share the faith…and promote heretics
COL John Boyd: Building Snowmobiles and a Fine-tuned Situational Awareness
Mindset and Winning is About Much More than Words, Isn’t It?
Interacting Tactfully and Tactically: Is This a Strategy, Law Enforcement Can Use?
Emotion verses Strategy: Which Helps You Gain the Position of Advantage?
“It Never Happens Here” So WHY Do We Train?
Think ‘FAST’: A mnemonic to help keep you safe, by John Demand
PoliceOne.Com Published: Are you prepared to adapt and win on the street?
Understanding and Developing Adaptive Leadership During Pre-commissioning
Book Review: If I Knew Then 2: Warrior Reflections
A VISION AND THE MISSION FOR: THE FUTURE LAW ENFORCEMENT LEARNING ORGANIZATION
Police Leaders as Educators and Trainers…Inspiring Cops to More Effective and Safe Policing
You’ve Got To Have an Ace in the Hole. Are You Prepared to Adapt and Win on the Street?
What has 2011 Taught You About Officer Safety and Effectiveness?
Police One, column ‘Staying Oriented’ article #1: ‘Red Teaming’ the cop killer
Mental Toughness and The Competitive Nature of Conflict
Police Militarization, Professionalism, and the Balance of Persuasion and Force
Mental Toughness and…The Power to Adapt
Mental Toughness: Optimistic Enthusiasm as a Form of Realism
Preparing for Crisis with Tactical Decision Games, After Action Reviews and Critical Question Mapping
Great Recap of Boyd and Beyond 2011 By Scott Shipman
Global Warrior Averting WWIII, John Poole’s Latest Strategic and Tactical Insights to Protecting the Homeland
Brain plasticity: A whole new idea for cops
Boyd & Beyond is on for 14 & 15 October at Quantico.
“SWARMING TACTICS” Published in the California Association of Tactical Officers official publication CATO NEWS
Documentary: Massacre at Virginia Tech
Book Review: TEMPO Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative Driven Decision Making by Venkatesh Rao
Fine Art, Fine Tuning Situation Awareness and Training Cops to See
15 Meters/11Seconds By C Flaherty and AR Green
Too Focused? You Might Miss Something Important
Dangerous Body Language: Digging Beyond What You See!
Swarming & The Future of Conflict by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt
Swarming Tactics by Sid Heal
More On Swarming Tactics…An Option For Law Enforcement
Dangerous Body Language: Detecting Deception and Danger
Cops Line of Duty Deaths Rising in 2011 “APPLYING”Lessons Learned
Cops, Security, Citizens Need to Be Aware: Does the Climate & Environment Shift in the Wake of bin Laden’s Death?
Progress, Interrupt and Neutralize (P.I.N.) Swarming Techniques For The Tactician
Should We Be Thinking Like the Bad Guys?
Meet Officers Lewis and Clark-Exploring Situational Awareness
Dangerous Body Language,The Boyd Cycle and Winning on the Street
Dangerous Body Language: A Thousand Words…None Spoken! The Nose, Mouth and Lips
The 10% of Mindset
The 3 P’s in Extreme Close Quarters Training: Pre-Assault Indicators, Precognitive Programming and Proximity
Tactical IQ: Using “SURPRISE” to Set the Tempo of Confrontation.
Tactical IQ: “FRICTION” Why is the Simplest Thing, So Difficult?
Dangerous Body Language: A Thousand Words…None Spoken! Darting Eyes
Operation Bold Strike: Follow Me Training Support Package
Follow Me!!! Creating and Nurturing Tactical Decision Makers With Combat Tested Methodologies
Training the Whole Circle: Blending Boyd’s Cycle and Cooper’s Color Codes
Dangerous Body Language: A Thousand Words…None Spoken! “Gaze Avoidance”
From OODA to AAADA ― A cycle for surviving violent police encounters
Dangerous Body Language: A Thousand Words…None Spoken! The Thousand Yard Stare
Baltimore Police Sergeants Training Using Adaptive Leadership Methodology with Don Vandergriff’s AAR
Achieving Outcomes on the Street with Integrity, Building Loyalty and Mutual Trust
Intersecting Ideas from Cross Disciplines…and Taking Boyd’s Theories Beyond
Tactical IQ: Developing “Fingertip Feel” Shaping and Reshaping Dynamic Encounters To Gain the Advantage
Reducing Law Enforcement Misfortunes…What About the Street Officer?
Can technology suck your brain dry?
Organizational Culture: Is Yours Congruent with What You Do?
Fighting Complacency Reminder: Nothing We Do is Routine, NOTHING!!!
Street Level Red Teaming: The Cop Killer
Street Level Red Teaming: Assessing The Situation From the Adversarial Point of View
Take A.I.M. and Prepare To Win Dynamic Encounters
Don’t Charge Police for Mistakes
What is a Threat?
Benefits of Conditioning Our Decision Making…The Boyd Cycle
Superior Situational Awareness and Decision Making…Attributes And Skills of Full Spectrum Officers
Earning “The Right to Lead” With Character and Courage
JUSTIFIED: Are You Serious? The Balancing Act of Persuasion, and Reasonable Force
Adaptive Leader Methodology: An Alternative for Better Outcomes
When Do We Teach the Basics?
Evolving Threats Small Arms and Small Unit Swarming Tactics as Tools of Terror…Are We Up To the Challenge?
Positive Leadership: Invest in People Building a Culture of Innovation
Harnessing The Street Cops Wisdom: Taking Whole of Conflict…And Effective Full Spectrum Responses
Beyond Active Response: An Operational Concept for Police Counterterrorism Response
The Badge: Much More Than a Piece of Medal
Wellbeing Check to Knife Attack: Anticipation-The Double Edged Sword and its Affect on Winning and Losing, Up Close and Personal
Tactical IQ: Fast Transients Maneuvers and Manipulating the Tempo of Conflict
Leadership By Wandering Around!
Defeat into Victory: Battling a Tough Climate with Faith, Perseverance and Lessons Learned
Evolving Threats and the Fourth Generation Warfare Problem Here at Home
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
Tactical IQ: 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?
“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?
The Tactical Decision Maker: The Devil’s Definitely in the Details
“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?
Officer Created Jeopardy: Reduce it with a Strategic and Tactical Mind
Law Enforcement and the Utility of Force…Why Cops Can’t Shoot Like the Lone Ranger?
Tactics: Applying Methods to Madness
Dealing with Conflict, Violence and Crises: by Fred Leland