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  • Introduction to Scenario Learning: Guest Post Series with Michael Barr
  • Auftragstaktik in One Simple Diagram by Chet Richards
  • “Leaders Are Teachers”: Great Insights on Leadership and Developing Your People from The Mentorship Forum
  • Great Review Over at the The Mentorship Forum of My Favorite Resource on Developing Adaptability “Raising The Bar”
  • Rethinking the Traditional Teacher-Student Relationship in Conflicts
  • Command and Control During a Disaster: Podcast
  • The Evolving Warfighter Sits Down with Don Vandergriff and Talks Mission Command
  • Developing and Preparing Cops for the Adaptive Challenges of The Street: Instructors Roundtable Podcast Episode
  • Unreflective Speed of Action…Do You Think Its Time Policing Reflects on the Tactical Influence of Time?
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Don Vandergriff – Mission Command, Trusting Your People, To Win
  • I See You…Back Up! On The Call to Win in Crisis and in the Aftermath to Win in Life
  • Technological Negation of Human Sexual Dimorphism: A Guest Post by Franklin C. Annis, EdD
  • Guest Post Home Security Guide from Bank Rate
  • Commonwealth Police Legacy Program of Instruction: Sound Decision Making for Cops
  • Outstanding In Your Face and Much Needed Book Policing and It’s Leaders Can Learn From
  • THE TRUTH BEHIND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS: Great Research Every Cop and Every Citizen Should Read.
  • Thought on Discipline: A Great Podcast Series from All Marine Radio, Every Police Leader Should Listen To
  • Gary Klein – Cognitive Psychologist, Studies Decision Making in Crisis on The Break It Down Show..Outstanding Episode
  • Tactical Decision Making Facilitation Guide Maj McBreen: The Lessons Transfer to Police Instruction as Well
  • 4th Generation Warfare Interview and Yes There Are Lessons for Policing
  • Keys to Training Excellence: Evidence Based Research Policing Can Use
  • Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture by Don Vandergriff
  • Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude: Book Review
  • PODCAST: Tactical Decision Games with Bruce Gudmundsson and Don Vandergriff
  • Podcast: Human Factors and Officer-Involved Shootings
  • Donald Robertson – Stoicism and Thinking Like a Roman Emperor
  • Dr John Sullivan and MAJ John Spencer – The Complexity of Modern Urban War
  • Great Podcast: The Courageous Police Leader – Combating Cowards, Chaos, and Lies
  • Recommended Reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • Another Approach to Tactics Guest Post by Bert DuVernay
  • LYNCH & KENNEY: react to clips of LtGen Van Riper’s “On Discipline” interview on All Marine Radio
  • Outstanding Interview: ON DISCIPLINE: LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (ret)
  • The Learning Insurgency: It’s an Evolution, not a Revolution By Donald E. Vandergriff
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 3: Toxic Bosses
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 2: Repairing Dysfunction in Police Organizations
  • On Policing a Free Society Podcast: Episode 1 Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Impact On Response
  • On Policing a Free Society with Fred Leland A New Podcast Coming in 2019
  • Making Police Training Stick…and Learning How to Learn
  • A New Conception of War: John Boyd The U.S. Marines and Maneuver Warfare
  • Utilizing The Case Method: Some articles by Bruce Gudmundsson to Help Shed Some Light on How Too
  • Use of Force Policy: Dispelling the Myths by Lexipol
  • How to Make a Small Unit Decision Forcing Cases by Bruce Gudmundsson
  • Facilitating Learning a Hybrid Of Methods to Effective Police Officer Development
  • Why The OODA Loop Is Forever By Dan Grazier
  • 15 Tips to Remember when Promoting a Growth Mindset in the Classroom: A Guest Post from USA Test Prep
  • New Edition of Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing by Grant Hammond
  • My Book Review: On Tactics by B. A. Friedman
  • Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone:
  • On Tactics: An Interview with B.A. Friedman
  • Podcast Part 2 from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Podcast from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Walk,Sacrafice, Work …Always Hungry Never Satified! What it Takes to Fight Complacency
  • The Ten Deadly Errors, Plus…Failure to Learn, Failure to Anticipate and Failure to Adapt
  • Turning Tragedy into Victory…We Must Start APPLYING LESSONS LEARNED
  • Police Responses Demands Constant and Repeated Action…Throughout the Tactical Encounter
  • All Police Actions Take Place in an Atmosphere of Uncertainty
  • Adapt or Die: The Call for Police Reform…Is It Reasonable or Necessary?
  • Force Science Assesses Proposed “Necessary” Deadly Force Standard
  • Special Tactics Online Course Intro
  • LESC is Honored to be Part of Special Tactics New Online Training Academy and Full-Featured, Professional Networking Site
  • Leading Discussions and Facilitating Better Training Outcomes
  • Police Leaders Mentoring and Coaching Their People: the Cornerstone to Top Performance in Crises
  • Research: Adaptive Skill as the Conditio Sine Qua Non of Expertise
  • Developing Adaptive Expertise: A Synthesis of Literature and Implications for Training
  • How the Germans Defined Auftragstaktik: What Mission Command is – AND – is Not by Don Vandergriff
  • Avioding Hostilities is the Goal But Sometimes to Gain The Advantage Reasonable Force Must Be Used
  • Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations
  • The Protector Ethic: Morality, Virtue, and Ethics in the Martial Way
  • Police Ethos:The Warrior and Guardian Mindset Are They Not One In the Same?
  • Neighborhood Watch is Homeland Security at the Most Local Level
  • Developing Police Sergeants: Getting the Outcomes and Measures of Effectiveness Right
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 3: Disrupting an Adversary Using Soft and Hard Tactics
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 2: Don’t Just Be a Reactor..Be a Shaper Too!
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 1
  • Smart Tactics Takes Thinking Police Leaders…Leading Thinking Cops
  • Wrestling With Delayed and Immediate Entry, Solo and Team Tactics…Are We Really Expecting All to Go as Rehersed?
  • Guardian Joe: How Less Force Helps The Warrior
  • Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforement Fatalities Between 2010-2016
  • Professional Reading and Development: It Doesn’t Give All the Answers, But It Lights What Is Often a Uncertain Path Ahead
  • What Are The Force Multipliers That Allow Police Organizations to Operate at Rapid OODA Loop Tempos?
  • Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions:Lessons Police Can Learn From The Corporate Rebels
  • What was Boyd Thinking and…What Can Policing Learn From It?
  • Proper Mindset, Situational Awareness, Skill Proficiency and Physical Fitness: Force Multipliers of Great Value to Police
  • Recognizing The Signs and Signals That Lead To Violent Acts At Our Schools and Making Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Them
  • Adaptive Leader Program: Developing Thinking Leaders Who Lead Thinking Officers
  • What Are Mission-Type Orders and How Do They Influence a More Effective Crisis Response?
  • Tactics Are They More High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle the Devil Be Damned or Maneuver and Boyd Cycling an Adversary?
  • There Are No School Solutions, Formulas or Recipes to School Shootings, so How Can We Develop Better Courses of Action?
  • Great Break It Down Show Focus on School Shootings
  • Developing Critically Needed Leadership: A Podcast on Mission Command Building Trust and Cohesion
  • Powerful Facilitation: Two Critical Approaches
  • Powerful Facilitation: Three Critical Competencies
  • STARTING AND GROWING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
  • Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty In Your Organization a Book Review
  • The Case Method In Developing Police: “Cold Calling” Will Have to Be Unambiguous
  • The Biggest Obstacle to Tactical Progress… and How to Beat It
  • Pete’s Combat Wish List Pt 2: Mental Models, Mistakes, Reflection and Learning on the Fly
  • Pete’s Wish List for Combat Warriors. Perhaps Some Lessons for Poliicng as Well?
  • What Affect Does the Human Dimension and Human Bias Have on Policing?
  • What virtues are the most essential for a warrior to live by in order to prepare for, protect against and prevent violence? 
  • Exploring Criminal Justice Careers Check Out the Community for Accredited Online Schools
  • A Great Break It Down Show Podcast on Interview and Interrogation: A Candid Straight Up Discussion
  • Experiential Learning a Big Part of The New Recruit Officer Course In Massachusetts: Looks Promising!
  • Run Out and Buy: Anatomy of a Warrior: The 7 Virtues All Warriors Must Live by to Successfully Protect and Serve
  • Devising Solutions to Complex Police Problems: How Can We Get Better?
  • Podcast with the Break It Down Show A Candid Discussion on Policing a Free Society, Mission Command and More
  • Understanding Problems Range in Complexity and Designing Police Operations
  • When it comes to Police Training, When is Good Enough, Not Good Enough?
  • On The Job Training and Deliberately Framing Experience
  • Police Officer Discretion…and Focusing Our Efforts on Better Outcomes
  • Strength of Character: The Foundation of Working Together and Getting Things Done
  • A free chapter from our new book now available on Amazon
  • A Major Problem We Must Confront as Police Trainers and Students: How To Improve Performance?
  • MISSION COMMAND THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY An Anthology
  • Conflict and Crisis are Full of Friction: The Force That Makes the Apparently Easy so Difficult
  • PODCAST: Don Vandergriff on Military Personnel Reform: The Ideas Discussed Can (SHOULD) be Adapted to Policing As Well!
  • Fire Nobody! by Dave Smith
  • Teaching United States Marine Instructors New Tricks: Developing Adaptability Through Experiential Learning
  • The Why was born out of pain
  • Inspiring People to Lifelong Learning & Impacting Their Ability to Make Sound Decisions 
  • We Can’t Just Use the Same Mental Recipes Over and Over Again: In Police Training We Must Challenge The Prevailing Mindset
  • Reflection Leads to Deeper Learning…Put Each Day Up For Review
  • We Must Train and Educate Within an Uncertain Environment to Prepare to Adapt
  • Defining Policing ‘s Training & Education Challenge…Some Ideas On Achieving High Levels of Professionalism
  • Defensive Tactics for Today’s Law Enforcement
  • Uploading John Boyd: The Legend Delivering His Opus is Online…and is as Relevant as Ever
  • Make Many Mistakes and Learn
  • Is Your Purpose in Life Based on Self Awareness and Strength of Character or Are You Just Following the Crowd?
  • An Officer’s Principal Weapon is His Mind: Professional Development In Policing
  • Outstanding Manual: Law Enforcement Close Quarter Battle: Urban Tactics for Individuals, Teams and Tactical Units
  • The Art of Police Training is the Ability to Move Officers Through the Fog and Complexity of Human Interaction
  • Brian Willis Interviews Yours Truly on Teaching Adaptive Leadership
  • The Police Leader’s True Work: Train Them, Trust Them, Let Them Do Their Job
  • Sir William Slim on His Leadership Motto: No Details, No Paper, And No Regrets
  • The Grid: Is There Better Ways to Approach Police Interactions?
  • Teaching Officers How to Think verses Telling Them What To Think
  • Develop a Philosophy and Understanding of Crime Fighting and Problem Solving That Considers Complexities of Policing
  • Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Book Review
  • Thinking Leaders, Leading Thinking People is the Adaptive Leaders Focus
  • Take Policing From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
  • Are You Serving Those You Lead?
  • Vehicle Stops Strategies and Tactics: Being Safe and Effective Is About Options, Not Best Practices
  • Teaching Adaptability and Making Marines More Effective Trainers
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Better Understanding Policing and Why it Matters
  • The Last 100 Yards Series: High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle or Maneuver: How Are Your Tactics, Officer?
  • Police officers I beg you to please run out and buy this book! What a great tactical resource!
  • Second Episode in This Podcast Series with Complete Emergency Managment: Leadership in Public Safety
  • Podcast: I sit down with George Whitney of Complete EM and discuss: Active Shooters and After Actions
  • Sir Robert Peels, Nine Key Principles of Policing: Fair and Impartial Policing Defined Back In 1829!
  • Herman Goldstein, Fundamental Objectives of Policing: Are They Relevant Today? I Say Yes!
  • Shaping and Adapting: Using the Environment (The Last Hundred Yards) To Unlock the Power of Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop
  • Informative Fair and Impartial Podcast: Do the legal rules for using deadly force, still make sense?
  • Crisis Intervention Teams & Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness: Evolving Tactics That Make a Difference
  • How Does The Last Hundred Yards, Enhance Tactical Responses to Crises?
  • Complacency and False Sense of Urgency: Why We Fail to Take Advantage of The Last Hundred Yards?
  • The Last Hundred Yards: Operate On Blind Luck or Win Consistently?
  • My Good Friend Coach Kevin Kearns talks with 5th & 6th graders about Vision
  • Keeping The Peace in a Free Society Let Us Not Forget Why We Do What We Do
  • How Do We Better Assess and Grade Decision Making and Adaptability in Those We Train?
  • Types of Cases
  • Report: Deadly Calls And Fatal Encounters
  • Developing Individuals with the Ability to Work Together Solving Real World Problems
  • Five-Year Study of Police Officer Deaths: RoboCops or Guardians?
  • The role of humility in the Socratic method by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • Keeping the Peace
  • Experiential Learning Defined
  • How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn
  • Reducing Violence is About Not Grabbing a Gun
  • Boston PD & Boston Red Sox: Full Scale Complex Operating Environment Training Exercise
  • Scouts in Contact Tactical Vignettes for Cavalry Leaders A Book of Tactical Decison Exercises for Cavalry Leaders
  • What is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
  • Sound of Silence A Tribute to Policing and All Those Who Serve The Homeland
  • Problem-Oriented Policing: Where Social Work Meets Law Enforcement
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Altering Public Expectations
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions Regarding Police Fuction
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves…
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society
  • Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
  • 8 Tips to Keep Your Home Wireless Network Secure From Hackers: a guest post from Wichly Cazeau
  • John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Part 3
  • Engaging The Community and Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
  • The Pre-Class Preparation Pyramid By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • We All Lose When it’s Us Verses Them!
  • Facilatating The Adaptive Leader Program at The Army ROTC Leadership Conference at Harvard University
  • A Break It Down Show Pod Cast: Paying Criminal Not to Commit Crimes or is There Something More to The Story?
  • Harvard ROTC Leadership Conference
  • A Discourse on Policing a Free Society
  • We Made the Mandatory Reading for the US Army MPs
  • Patterns of Conflict Pt 2
  • Hand in Hand Project, a new initiative promoting dialogue and interaction between local police officers and young people
  • How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
  • Why Adaptability Trumps Hierarchy?
  • Military Reform Through Education: From The Straus Military Reform Project, Something We In Policing Can Learn From
  • In Building Trust, Actions…Speak Louder Than Words!
  • Somewhere Along the Way
  • Taking It Personally
  • The Facts of the Case By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • J.J. DID TIE BUCKLE Traits I live By
  • On Fitness: Learn from my weakness, my mistakes, and my bad habits
  • Don’t Do It Alone: Developing a Shared Sense of Destiny Requires We’re all on the Same Sheet of Music
  • Recommended Reading List From The California Association of Tactical Officers
  • Values For A New Millennium: A Book That Will Help Bridge the Gap Between People and The Police
  • Teaching Adaptability…and Firearms Training
  • Simon Sinek: Why Reciprocity Improves Mentor Mentee Relationships
  • Felix Nader Discusses The Value of Workplace Violence Prevention
  • Breaking Down Police Work and How To Win at Low Cost: Part 2 Podcast Break It Down Show
  • Boyd: Adapting Isn’t Good Enough
  • Simon Sinek on the responsibility that leaders have to create environments where people are more productive,and inspired
  • The Hunting Story – the meaning of human equality
  • Ethical Warriors with Jack Hoban
  • Emotional Intelligence: Re-Thinking Police Community Relations by Mark Bond
  • Approaching LE with the ‘What’s important now?’ perspective
  • Staying in control when a suspect is aggressive
  • 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
  • Warriors vs. Praetorian Guard – Which Mindset Fits You Best? By Mike Ox
  • ITOA News: Articles By John Farnam, Patrick Van Horne, Jeff Chudwin, Don Vandergriff, Yours Truly and More
  • The importance of mindset in policing with Chip Huth
  • A Discussion on Police Work and How to Win At Low Cost, Connecting The People and Police Gap
  • Be Passionate, Back Up and Empower Your People, and You Will Get The Culture Right
  • Why Are Shared Visions So Important?
  • Technical Skill as a Component of Creativity by Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • I Am Spartacus…No I Am Spartacus: Is Your Police Organization United?
  • The Demand For Autodidacts – The Self-Taught in an Age of Shrinking Budgets by Patrick Van Horne
  • It’s How You Say What You Saw by Patrick Van Horne
  • The Path of Don Vandergriff: A Discussion On Leadership, Learning organizations and Adaptability
  • The Newhall Incident: Failure, Adaptation and Success…Or Lost Opportunity? Published in the latest ITOA News
  • NYPD’s New Strategy for Dealing with Stressful Interactions, Absurd or Realistic?
  • The Mind Can Be Convinced But The Heart Must Be Won
  • Imagine a Police Culture Where People Wake Up Every Day Inspired to Go to Work
  • Open Letter to President’s Task Force on Policing by Louis Hayes
  • The Blame Game: Who @#$%ed This Up?
  • Breaking Down the Stranglehold of Formality
  • Boyd and Beyond: From Marine Corps University to FBI National Academy Boyd’ Ideas are Expanding
  • From The Art of Manliness: John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
  • Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
  • The Case Method Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marine Education by Captain Paul Tremblay Jr USMC
  • Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand…
  • Using Official Histories as Quarries for Case Materials By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Left of Bang By Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
  • The Most Dangerous Weapon in Law Enforcement by Brian Willis
  • Sizing Up Situations Is A Skill, We Need To Develop
  • Change the Culture If I could Only Change One Thing by Don Vandergriff
  • The Five Learning Disciplines
  • Using Complete Stories in Decision Forcing Cases by Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis
  • Tactical Decision Games, Obscure Information and Generating New Ways to Thrive in the Climate of Chaos and Uncertainty
  • Calling on Cops in Class: An Anecdote for Developing Character, Confidence and Sound Tactical Decision Makers
  • Solving Tactical Dilemmas with Indirect Experience (Education & Training) and White Castle Cases
  • Ugly Police Force: Misunderstandings of Law & Human Factors by Lou Hayes
  • Design and Facilitate, Decision Making Exercises Using The Sandwich Metaphor
  • Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare by H. John Poole
  • Developing Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Decision Makers with Case Study’s “Washington’s Crossing”
  • FBI Report: A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States
  • The Art of Manliness Discusses…The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop
  • Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
  • A Police Officers thoughts on the “Militarization” of our police forces.
  • Cops With War Toys: Militarizing police is the worst way to fight crime.
  • “Just the facts Ma’am”
  • Re-Imagine the Way We Lead!
  • A Milestone in Boydian Theory at the Tactical Level
  • CASE STUDY: Ferguson Missouri shooting incident and aftermath by Louis Hayes
  • What is Leadership?
  • Use of Force Investigations: a Manual for Law Enforcement
  • Do You Know How to Get Fullfillment?
  • How Great Leaders Inspire Action
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
  • Adaptive Leadership Handbook, Reviewed [by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]
  • Have We Not Learned Anything From History? Don Vandergriff’s Book Review on American Spartan
  • How Do We Inspire Action?
  • Book Review: Rubicon: The Poetry of War
  • Book Review: American Spartan
  • Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for WWII
  • What are the Basics? Developing for Mission Command by Donald E. Vandergriff
  • IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL
  • Adaptive Leadership By Charles “Sid” Heal and John R. Engbeck
  • Why good leaders make you feel safe
  • Guardians vs. Warriors: What it Takes to Win at Low Cost
  • After Action Review on The Christopher Dorner Incident
  • Adaptive Leader Program
  • Crisis Meta-Leadership Lessons From the Boston Marathon Bombings Response: The Ingenuity of Swarm Intelligence
  • Outstanding piece! The Myth of Mission Command by Don Vandergriff
  • Cops or Soldiers?
  • Situational Assessments: Being Mindful of What’s Important Now!
  • Convinced or Committed?
  • 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
  • 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…
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  • 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
  • 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:
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  • 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
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  • “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 For Policing To “Win”at Low Cost?
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Auftragstaktik in One Simple Diagram by Chet Richards
  • “Leaders Are Teachers”: Great Insights on Leadership and Developing Your People from The Mentorship Forum
  • Great Review Over at the The Mentorship Forum of My Favorite Resource on Developing Adaptability “Raising The Bar”
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  • Command and Control During a Disaster: Podcast
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  • Developing and Preparing Cops for the Adaptive Challenges of The Street: Instructors Roundtable Podcast Episode
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  • THE TRUTH BEHIND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS: Great Research Every Cop and Every Citizen Should Read.
  • Thought on Discipline: A Great Podcast Series from All Marine Radio, Every Police Leader Should Listen To
  • Gary Klein – Cognitive Psychologist, Studies Decision Making in Crisis on The Break It Down Show..Outstanding Episode
  • Tactical Decision Making Facilitation Guide Maj McBreen: The Lessons Transfer to Police Instruction as Well
  • 4th Generation Warfare Interview and Yes There Are Lessons for Policing
  • Keys to Training Excellence: Evidence Based Research Policing Can Use
  • Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture by Don Vandergriff
  • Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude: Book Review
  • PODCAST: Tactical Decision Games with Bruce Gudmundsson and Don Vandergriff
  • Podcast: Human Factors and Officer-Involved Shootings
  • Donald Robertson – Stoicism and Thinking Like a Roman Emperor
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  • Great Podcast: The Courageous Police Leader – Combating Cowards, Chaos, and Lies
  • Recommended Reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • Another Approach to Tactics Guest Post by Bert DuVernay
  • LYNCH & KENNEY: react to clips of LtGen Van Riper’s “On Discipline” interview on All Marine Radio
  • Outstanding Interview: ON DISCIPLINE: LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (ret)
  • The Learning Insurgency: It’s an Evolution, not a Revolution By Donald E. Vandergriff
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 3: Toxic Bosses
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 2: Repairing Dysfunction in Police Organizations
  • On Policing a Free Society Podcast: Episode 1 Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Impact On Response
  • On Policing a Free Society with Fred Leland A New Podcast Coming in 2019
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  • A New Conception of War: John Boyd The U.S. Marines and Maneuver Warfare
  • Utilizing The Case Method: Some articles by Bruce Gudmundsson to Help Shed Some Light on How Too
  • Use of Force Policy: Dispelling the Myths by Lexipol
  • How to Make a Small Unit Decision Forcing Cases by Bruce Gudmundsson
  • Facilitating Learning a Hybrid Of Methods to Effective Police Officer Development
  • Why The OODA Loop Is Forever By Dan Grazier
  • 15 Tips to Remember when Promoting a Growth Mindset in the Classroom: A Guest Post from USA Test Prep
  • New Edition of Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing by Grant Hammond
  • My Book Review: On Tactics by B. A. Friedman
  • Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone:
  • On Tactics: An Interview with B.A. Friedman
  • Podcast Part 2 from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Podcast from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Walk,Sacrafice, Work …Always Hungry Never Satified! What it Takes to Fight Complacency
  • The Ten Deadly Errors, Plus…Failure to Learn, Failure to Anticipate and Failure to Adapt
  • Turning Tragedy into Victory…We Must Start APPLYING LESSONS LEARNED
  • Police Responses Demands Constant and Repeated Action…Throughout the Tactical Encounter
  • All Police Actions Take Place in an Atmosphere of Uncertainty
  • Adapt or Die: The Call for Police Reform…Is It Reasonable or Necessary?
  • Force Science Assesses Proposed “Necessary” Deadly Force Standard
  • Special Tactics Online Course Intro
  • LESC is Honored to be Part of Special Tactics New Online Training Academy and Full-Featured, Professional Networking Site
  • Leading Discussions and Facilitating Better Training Outcomes
  • Police Leaders Mentoring and Coaching Their People: the Cornerstone to Top Performance in Crises
  • Research: Adaptive Skill as the Conditio Sine Qua Non of Expertise
  • Developing Adaptive Expertise: A Synthesis of Literature and Implications for Training
  • How the Germans Defined Auftragstaktik: What Mission Command is – AND – is Not by Don Vandergriff
  • Avioding Hostilities is the Goal But Sometimes to Gain The Advantage Reasonable Force Must Be Used
  • Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations
  • The Protector Ethic: Morality, Virtue, and Ethics in the Martial Way
  • Police Ethos:The Warrior and Guardian Mindset Are They Not One In the Same?
  • Neighborhood Watch is Homeland Security at the Most Local Level
  • Developing Police Sergeants: Getting the Outcomes and Measures of Effectiveness Right
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 3: Disrupting an Adversary Using Soft and Hard Tactics
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 2: Don’t Just Be a Reactor..Be a Shaper Too!
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 1
  • Smart Tactics Takes Thinking Police Leaders…Leading Thinking Cops
  • Wrestling With Delayed and Immediate Entry, Solo and Team Tactics…Are We Really Expecting All to Go as Rehersed?
  • Guardian Joe: How Less Force Helps The Warrior
  • Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforement Fatalities Between 2010-2016
  • Professional Reading and Development: It Doesn’t Give All the Answers, But It Lights What Is Often a Uncertain Path Ahead
  • What Are The Force Multipliers That Allow Police Organizations to Operate at Rapid OODA Loop Tempos?
  • Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions:Lessons Police Can Learn From The Corporate Rebels
  • What was Boyd Thinking and…What Can Policing Learn From It?
  • Proper Mindset, Situational Awareness, Skill Proficiency and Physical Fitness: Force Multipliers of Great Value to Police
  • Recognizing The Signs and Signals That Lead To Violent Acts At Our Schools and Making Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Them
  • Adaptive Leader Program: Developing Thinking Leaders Who Lead Thinking Officers
  • What Are Mission-Type Orders and How Do They Influence a More Effective Crisis Response?
  • Tactics Are They More High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle the Devil Be Damned or Maneuver and Boyd Cycling an Adversary?
  • There Are No School Solutions, Formulas or Recipes to School Shootings, so How Can We Develop Better Courses of Action?
  • Great Break It Down Show Focus on School Shootings
  • Developing Critically Needed Leadership: A Podcast on Mission Command Building Trust and Cohesion
  • Powerful Facilitation: Two Critical Approaches
  • Powerful Facilitation: Three Critical Competencies
  • STARTING AND GROWING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
  • Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty In Your Organization a Book Review
  • The Case Method In Developing Police: “Cold Calling” Will Have to Be Unambiguous
  • The Biggest Obstacle to Tactical Progress… and How to Beat It
  • Pete’s Combat Wish List Pt 2: Mental Models, Mistakes, Reflection and Learning on the Fly
  • Pete’s Wish List for Combat Warriors. Perhaps Some Lessons for Poliicng as Well?
  • What Affect Does the Human Dimension and Human Bias Have on Policing?
  • What virtues are the most essential for a warrior to live by in order to prepare for, protect against and prevent violence? 
  • Exploring Criminal Justice Careers Check Out the Community for Accredited Online Schools
  • A Great Break It Down Show Podcast on Interview and Interrogation: A Candid Straight Up Discussion
  • Experiential Learning a Big Part of The New Recruit Officer Course In Massachusetts: Looks Promising!
  • Run Out and Buy: Anatomy of a Warrior: The 7 Virtues All Warriors Must Live by to Successfully Protect and Serve
  • Devising Solutions to Complex Police Problems: How Can We Get Better?
  • Podcast with the Break It Down Show A Candid Discussion on Policing a Free Society, Mission Command and More
  • Understanding Problems Range in Complexity and Designing Police Operations
  • When it comes to Police Training, When is Good Enough, Not Good Enough?
  • On The Job Training and Deliberately Framing Experience
  • Police Officer Discretion…and Focusing Our Efforts on Better Outcomes
  • Strength of Character: The Foundation of Working Together and Getting Things Done
  • A free chapter from our new book now available on Amazon
  • A Major Problem We Must Confront as Police Trainers and Students: How To Improve Performance?
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  • Conflict and Crisis are Full of Friction: The Force That Makes the Apparently Easy so Difficult
  • PODCAST: Don Vandergriff on Military Personnel Reform: The Ideas Discussed Can (SHOULD) be Adapted to Policing As Well!
  • Fire Nobody! by Dave Smith
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  • The Why was born out of pain
  • Inspiring People to Lifelong Learning & Impacting Their Ability to Make Sound Decisions 
  • We Can’t Just Use the Same Mental Recipes Over and Over Again: In Police Training We Must Challenge The Prevailing Mindset
  • Reflection Leads to Deeper Learning…Put Each Day Up For Review
  • We Must Train and Educate Within an Uncertain Environment to Prepare to Adapt
  • Defining Policing ‘s Training & Education Challenge…Some Ideas On Achieving High Levels of Professionalism
  • Defensive Tactics for Today’s Law Enforcement
  • Uploading John Boyd: The Legend Delivering His Opus is Online…and is as Relevant as Ever
  • Make Many Mistakes and Learn
  • Is Your Purpose in Life Based on Self Awareness and Strength of Character or Are You Just Following the Crowd?
  • An Officer’s Principal Weapon is His Mind: Professional Development In Policing
  • Outstanding Manual: Law Enforcement Close Quarter Battle: Urban Tactics for Individuals, Teams and Tactical Units
  • The Art of Police Training is the Ability to Move Officers Through the Fog and Complexity of Human Interaction
  • Brian Willis Interviews Yours Truly on Teaching Adaptive Leadership
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  • Sir William Slim on His Leadership Motto: No Details, No Paper, And No Regrets
  • The Grid: Is There Better Ways to Approach Police Interactions?
  • Teaching Officers How to Think verses Telling Them What To Think
  • Develop a Philosophy and Understanding of Crime Fighting and Problem Solving That Considers Complexities of Policing
  • Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Book Review
  • Thinking Leaders, Leading Thinking People is the Adaptive Leaders Focus
  • Take Policing From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
  • Are You Serving Those You Lead?
  • Vehicle Stops Strategies and Tactics: Being Safe and Effective Is About Options, Not Best Practices
  • Teaching Adaptability and Making Marines More Effective Trainers
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Better Understanding Policing and Why it Matters
  • The Last 100 Yards Series: High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle or Maneuver: How Are Your Tactics, Officer?
  • Police officers I beg you to please run out and buy this book! What a great tactical resource!
  • Second Episode in This Podcast Series with Complete Emergency Managment: Leadership in Public Safety
  • Podcast: I sit down with George Whitney of Complete EM and discuss: Active Shooters and After Actions
  • Sir Robert Peels, Nine Key Principles of Policing: Fair and Impartial Policing Defined Back In 1829!
  • Herman Goldstein, Fundamental Objectives of Policing: Are They Relevant Today? I Say Yes!
  • Shaping and Adapting: Using the Environment (The Last Hundred Yards) To Unlock the Power of Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop
  • Informative Fair and Impartial Podcast: Do the legal rules for using deadly force, still make sense?
  • Crisis Intervention Teams & Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness: Evolving Tactics That Make a Difference
  • How Does The Last Hundred Yards, Enhance Tactical Responses to Crises?
  • Complacency and False Sense of Urgency: Why We Fail to Take Advantage of The Last Hundred Yards?
  • The Last Hundred Yards: Operate On Blind Luck or Win Consistently?
  • My Good Friend Coach Kevin Kearns talks with 5th & 6th graders about Vision
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  • Developing Individuals with the Ability to Work Together Solving Real World Problems
  • Five-Year Study of Police Officer Deaths: RoboCops or Guardians?
  • The role of humility in the Socratic method by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • Keeping the Peace
  • Experiential Learning Defined
  • How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn
  • Reducing Violence is About Not Grabbing a Gun
  • Boston PD & Boston Red Sox: Full Scale Complex Operating Environment Training Exercise
  • Scouts in Contact Tactical Vignettes for Cavalry Leaders A Book of Tactical Decison Exercises for Cavalry Leaders
  • What is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
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  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions Regarding Police Fuction
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves…
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society
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  • John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Part 3
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  • Hand in Hand Project, a new initiative promoting dialogue and interaction between local police officers and young people
  • How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
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  • In Building Trust, Actions…Speak Louder Than Words!
  • Somewhere Along the Way
  • Taking It Personally
  • The Facts of the Case By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
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  • Recommended Reading List From The California Association of Tactical Officers
  • Values For A New Millennium: A Book That Will Help Bridge the Gap Between People and The Police
  • Teaching Adaptability…and Firearms Training
  • Simon Sinek: Why Reciprocity Improves Mentor Mentee Relationships
  • Felix Nader Discusses The Value of Workplace Violence Prevention
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  • Boyd: Adapting Isn’t Good Enough
  • Simon Sinek on the responsibility that leaders have to create environments where people are more productive,and inspired
  • The Hunting Story – the meaning of human equality
  • Ethical Warriors with Jack Hoban
  • Emotional Intelligence: Re-Thinking Police Community Relations by Mark Bond
  • Approaching LE with the ‘What’s important now?’ perspective
  • Staying in control when a suspect is aggressive
  • 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
  • Warriors vs. Praetorian Guard – Which Mindset Fits You Best? By Mike Ox
  • ITOA News: Articles By John Farnam, Patrick Van Horne, Jeff Chudwin, Don Vandergriff, Yours Truly and More
  • The importance of mindset in policing with Chip Huth
  • A Discussion on Police Work and How to Win At Low Cost, Connecting The People and Police Gap
  • Be Passionate, Back Up and Empower Your People, and You Will Get The Culture Right
  • Why Are Shared Visions So Important?
  • Technical Skill as a Component of Creativity by Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • I Am Spartacus…No I Am Spartacus: Is Your Police Organization United?
  • The Demand For Autodidacts – The Self-Taught in an Age of Shrinking Budgets by Patrick Van Horne
  • It’s How You Say What You Saw by Patrick Van Horne
  • The Path of Don Vandergriff: A Discussion On Leadership, Learning organizations and Adaptability
  • The Newhall Incident: Failure, Adaptation and Success…Or Lost Opportunity? Published in the latest ITOA News
  • NYPD’s New Strategy for Dealing with Stressful Interactions, Absurd or Realistic?
  • The Mind Can Be Convinced But The Heart Must Be Won
  • Imagine a Police Culture Where People Wake Up Every Day Inspired to Go to Work
  • Open Letter to President’s Task Force on Policing by Louis Hayes
  • The Blame Game: Who @#$%ed This Up?
  • Breaking Down the Stranglehold of Formality
  • Boyd and Beyond: From Marine Corps University to FBI National Academy Boyd’ Ideas are Expanding
  • From The Art of Manliness: John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
  • Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
  • The Case Method Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marine Education by Captain Paul Tremblay Jr USMC
  • Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand…
  • Using Official Histories as Quarries for Case Materials By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Left of Bang By Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
  • The Most Dangerous Weapon in Law Enforcement by Brian Willis
  • Sizing Up Situations Is A Skill, We Need To Develop
  • Change the Culture If I could Only Change One Thing by Don Vandergriff
  • The Five Learning Disciplines
  • Using Complete Stories in Decision Forcing Cases by Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis
  • Tactical Decision Games, Obscure Information and Generating New Ways to Thrive in the Climate of Chaos and Uncertainty
  • Calling on Cops in Class: An Anecdote for Developing Character, Confidence and Sound Tactical Decision Makers
  • Solving Tactical Dilemmas with Indirect Experience (Education & Training) and White Castle Cases
  • Ugly Police Force: Misunderstandings of Law & Human Factors by Lou Hayes
  • Design and Facilitate, Decision Making Exercises Using The Sandwich Metaphor
  • Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare by H. John Poole
  • Developing Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Decision Makers with Case Study’s “Washington’s Crossing”
  • FBI Report: A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States
  • The Art of Manliness Discusses…The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop
  • Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
  • A Police Officers thoughts on the “Militarization” of our police forces.
  • Cops With War Toys: Militarizing police is the worst way to fight crime.
  • “Just the facts Ma’am”
  • Re-Imagine the Way We Lead!
  • A Milestone in Boydian Theory at the Tactical Level
  • CASE STUDY: Ferguson Missouri shooting incident and aftermath by Louis Hayes
  • What is Leadership?
  • Use of Force Investigations: a Manual for Law Enforcement
  • Do You Know How to Get Fullfillment?
  • How Great Leaders Inspire Action
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
  • Adaptive Leadership Handbook, Reviewed [by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]
  • Have We Not Learned Anything From History? Don Vandergriff’s Book Review on American Spartan
  • How Do We Inspire Action?
  • Book Review: Rubicon: The Poetry of War
  • Book Review: American Spartan
  • Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for WWII
  • What are the Basics? Developing for Mission Command by Donald E. Vandergriff
  • IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL
  • Adaptive Leadership By Charles “Sid” Heal and John R. Engbeck
  • Why good leaders make you feel safe
  • Guardians vs. Warriors: What it Takes to Win at Low Cost
  • After Action Review on The Christopher Dorner Incident
  • Adaptive Leader Program
  • Crisis Meta-Leadership Lessons From the Boston Marathon Bombings Response: The Ingenuity of Swarm Intelligence
  • Outstanding piece! The Myth of Mission Command by Don Vandergriff
  • Cops or Soldiers?
  • Situational Assessments: Being Mindful of What’s Important Now!
  • Convinced or Committed?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 For Policing 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
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  • Introduction to Scenario Learning: Guest Post Series with Michael Barr
  • Auftragstaktik in One Simple Diagram by Chet Richards
  • “Leaders Are Teachers”: Great Insights on Leadership and Developing Your People from The Mentorship Forum
  • Great Review Over at the The Mentorship Forum of My Favorite Resource on Developing Adaptability “Raising The Bar”
  • Rethinking the Traditional Teacher-Student Relationship in Conflicts
  • Command and Control During a Disaster: Podcast
  • The Evolving Warfighter Sits Down with Don Vandergriff and Talks Mission Command
  • Developing and Preparing Cops for the Adaptive Challenges of The Street: Instructors Roundtable Podcast Episode
  • Unreflective Speed of Action…Do You Think Its Time Policing Reflects on the Tactical Influence of Time?
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Don Vandergriff – Mission Command, Trusting Your People, To Win
  • I See You…Back Up! On The Call to Win in Crisis and in the Aftermath to Win in Life
  • Technological Negation of Human Sexual Dimorphism: A Guest Post by Franklin C. Annis, EdD
  • Guest Post Home Security Guide from Bank Rate
  • Commonwealth Police Legacy Program of Instruction: Sound Decision Making for Cops
  • Outstanding In Your Face and Much Needed Book Policing and It’s Leaders Can Learn From
  • THE TRUTH BEHIND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS: Great Research Every Cop and Every Citizen Should Read.
  • Thought on Discipline: A Great Podcast Series from All Marine Radio, Every Police Leader Should Listen To
  • Gary Klein – Cognitive Psychologist, Studies Decision Making in Crisis on The Break It Down Show..Outstanding Episode
  • Tactical Decision Making Facilitation Guide Maj McBreen: The Lessons Transfer to Police Instruction as Well
  • 4th Generation Warfare Interview and Yes There Are Lessons for Policing
  • Keys to Training Excellence: Evidence Based Research Policing Can Use
  • Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture by Don Vandergriff
  • Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude: Book Review
  • PODCAST: Tactical Decision Games with Bruce Gudmundsson and Don Vandergriff
  • Podcast: Human Factors and Officer-Involved Shootings
  • Donald Robertson – Stoicism and Thinking Like a Roman Emperor
  • Dr John Sullivan and MAJ John Spencer – The Complexity of Modern Urban War
  • Great Podcast: The Courageous Police Leader – Combating Cowards, Chaos, and Lies
  • Recommended Reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • Another Approach to Tactics Guest Post by Bert DuVernay
  • LYNCH & KENNEY: react to clips of LtGen Van Riper’s “On Discipline” interview on All Marine Radio
  • Outstanding Interview: ON DISCIPLINE: LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (ret)
  • The Learning Insurgency: It’s an Evolution, not a Revolution By Donald E. Vandergriff
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 3: Toxic Bosses
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 2: Repairing Dysfunction in Police Organizations
  • On Policing a Free Society Podcast: Episode 1 Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Impact On Response
  • On Policing a Free Society with Fred Leland A New Podcast Coming in 2019
  • Making Police Training Stick…and Learning How to Learn
  • A New Conception of War: John Boyd The U.S. Marines and Maneuver Warfare
  • Utilizing The Case Method: Some articles by Bruce Gudmundsson to Help Shed Some Light on How Too
  • Use of Force Policy: Dispelling the Myths by Lexipol
  • How to Make a Small Unit Decision Forcing Cases by Bruce Gudmundsson
  • Facilitating Learning a Hybrid Of Methods to Effective Police Officer Development
  • Why The OODA Loop Is Forever By Dan Grazier
  • 15 Tips to Remember when Promoting a Growth Mindset in the Classroom: A Guest Post from USA Test Prep
  • New Edition of Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing by Grant Hammond
  • My Book Review: On Tactics by B. A. Friedman
  • Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone:
  • On Tactics: An Interview with B.A. Friedman
  • Podcast Part 2 from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Podcast from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Walk,Sacrafice, Work …Always Hungry Never Satified! What it Takes to Fight Complacency
  • The Ten Deadly Errors, Plus…Failure to Learn, Failure to Anticipate and Failure to Adapt
  • Turning Tragedy into Victory…We Must Start APPLYING LESSONS LEARNED
  • Police Responses Demands Constant and Repeated Action…Throughout the Tactical Encounter
  • All Police Actions Take Place in an Atmosphere of Uncertainty
  • Adapt or Die: The Call for Police Reform…Is It Reasonable or Necessary?
  • Force Science Assesses Proposed “Necessary” Deadly Force Standard
  • Special Tactics Online Course Intro
  • LESC is Honored to be Part of Special Tactics New Online Training Academy and Full-Featured, Professional Networking Site
  • Leading Discussions and Facilitating Better Training Outcomes
  • Police Leaders Mentoring and Coaching Their People: the Cornerstone to Top Performance in Crises
  • Research: Adaptive Skill as the Conditio Sine Qua Non of Expertise
  • Developing Adaptive Expertise: A Synthesis of Literature and Implications for Training
  • How the Germans Defined Auftragstaktik: What Mission Command is – AND – is Not by Don Vandergriff
  • Avioding Hostilities is the Goal But Sometimes to Gain The Advantage Reasonable Force Must Be Used
  • Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations
  • The Protector Ethic: Morality, Virtue, and Ethics in the Martial Way
  • Police Ethos:The Warrior and Guardian Mindset Are They Not One In the Same?
  • Neighborhood Watch is Homeland Security at the Most Local Level
  • Developing Police Sergeants: Getting the Outcomes and Measures of Effectiveness Right
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 3: Disrupting an Adversary Using Soft and Hard Tactics
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 2: Don’t Just Be a Reactor..Be a Shaper Too!
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 1
  • Smart Tactics Takes Thinking Police Leaders…Leading Thinking Cops
  • Wrestling With Delayed and Immediate Entry, Solo and Team Tactics…Are We Really Expecting All to Go as Rehersed?
  • Guardian Joe: How Less Force Helps The Warrior
  • Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforement Fatalities Between 2010-2016
  • Professional Reading and Development: It Doesn’t Give All the Answers, But It Lights What Is Often a Uncertain Path Ahead
  • What Are The Force Multipliers That Allow Police Organizations to Operate at Rapid OODA Loop Tempos?
  • Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions:Lessons Police Can Learn From The Corporate Rebels
  • What was Boyd Thinking and…What Can Policing Learn From It?
  • Proper Mindset, Situational Awareness, Skill Proficiency and Physical Fitness: Force Multipliers of Great Value to Police
  • Recognizing The Signs and Signals That Lead To Violent Acts At Our Schools and Making Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Them
  • Adaptive Leader Program: Developing Thinking Leaders Who Lead Thinking Officers
  • What Are Mission-Type Orders and How Do They Influence a More Effective Crisis Response?
  • Tactics Are They More High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle the Devil Be Damned or Maneuver and Boyd Cycling an Adversary?
  • There Are No School Solutions, Formulas or Recipes to School Shootings, so How Can We Develop Better Courses of Action?
  • Great Break It Down Show Focus on School Shootings
  • Developing Critically Needed Leadership: A Podcast on Mission Command Building Trust and Cohesion
  • Powerful Facilitation: Two Critical Approaches
  • Powerful Facilitation: Three Critical Competencies
  • STARTING AND GROWING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
  • Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty In Your Organization a Book Review
  • The Case Method In Developing Police: “Cold Calling” Will Have to Be Unambiguous
  • The Biggest Obstacle to Tactical Progress… and How to Beat It
  • Pete’s Combat Wish List Pt 2: Mental Models, Mistakes, Reflection and Learning on the Fly
  • Pete’s Wish List for Combat Warriors. Perhaps Some Lessons for Poliicng as Well?
  • What Affect Does the Human Dimension and Human Bias Have on Policing?
  • What virtues are the most essential for a warrior to live by in order to prepare for, protect against and prevent violence? 
  • Exploring Criminal Justice Careers Check Out the Community for Accredited Online Schools
  • A Great Break It Down Show Podcast on Interview and Interrogation: A Candid Straight Up Discussion
  • Experiential Learning a Big Part of The New Recruit Officer Course In Massachusetts: Looks Promising!
  • Run Out and Buy: Anatomy of a Warrior: The 7 Virtues All Warriors Must Live by to Successfully Protect and Serve
  • Devising Solutions to Complex Police Problems: How Can We Get Better?
  • Podcast with the Break It Down Show A Candid Discussion on Policing a Free Society, Mission Command and More
  • Understanding Problems Range in Complexity and Designing Police Operations
  • When it comes to Police Training, When is Good Enough, Not Good Enough?
  • On The Job Training and Deliberately Framing Experience
  • Police Officer Discretion…and Focusing Our Efforts on Better Outcomes
  • Strength of Character: The Foundation of Working Together and Getting Things Done
  • A free chapter from our new book now available on Amazon
  • A Major Problem We Must Confront as Police Trainers and Students: How To Improve Performance?
  • MISSION COMMAND THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY An Anthology
  • Conflict and Crisis are Full of Friction: The Force That Makes the Apparently Easy so Difficult
  • PODCAST: Don Vandergriff on Military Personnel Reform: The Ideas Discussed Can (SHOULD) be Adapted to Policing As Well!
  • Fire Nobody! by Dave Smith
  • Teaching United States Marine Instructors New Tricks: Developing Adaptability Through Experiential Learning
  • The Why was born out of pain
  • Inspiring People to Lifelong Learning & Impacting Their Ability to Make Sound Decisions 
  • We Can’t Just Use the Same Mental Recipes Over and Over Again: In Police Training We Must Challenge The Prevailing Mindset
  • Reflection Leads to Deeper Learning…Put Each Day Up For Review
  • We Must Train and Educate Within an Uncertain Environment to Prepare to Adapt
  • Defining Policing ‘s Training & Education Challenge…Some Ideas On Achieving High Levels of Professionalism
  • Defensive Tactics for Today’s Law Enforcement
  • Uploading John Boyd: The Legend Delivering His Opus is Online…and is as Relevant as Ever
  • Make Many Mistakes and Learn
  • Is Your Purpose in Life Based on Self Awareness and Strength of Character or Are You Just Following the Crowd?
  • An Officer’s Principal Weapon is His Mind: Professional Development In Policing
  • Outstanding Manual: Law Enforcement Close Quarter Battle: Urban Tactics for Individuals, Teams and Tactical Units
  • The Art of Police Training is the Ability to Move Officers Through the Fog and Complexity of Human Interaction
  • Brian Willis Interviews Yours Truly on Teaching Adaptive Leadership
  • The Police Leader’s True Work: Train Them, Trust Them, Let Them Do Their Job
  • Sir William Slim on His Leadership Motto: No Details, No Paper, And No Regrets
  • The Grid: Is There Better Ways to Approach Police Interactions?
  • Teaching Officers How to Think verses Telling Them What To Think
  • Develop a Philosophy and Understanding of Crime Fighting and Problem Solving That Considers Complexities of Policing
  • Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Book Review
  • Thinking Leaders, Leading Thinking People is the Adaptive Leaders Focus
  • Take Policing From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
  • Are You Serving Those You Lead?
  • Vehicle Stops Strategies and Tactics: Being Safe and Effective Is About Options, Not Best Practices
  • Teaching Adaptability and Making Marines More Effective Trainers
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Better Understanding Policing and Why it Matters
  • The Last 100 Yards Series: High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle or Maneuver: How Are Your Tactics, Officer?
  • Police officers I beg you to please run out and buy this book! What a great tactical resource!
  • Second Episode in This Podcast Series with Complete Emergency Managment: Leadership in Public Safety
  • Podcast: I sit down with George Whitney of Complete EM and discuss: Active Shooters and After Actions
  • Sir Robert Peels, Nine Key Principles of Policing: Fair and Impartial Policing Defined Back In 1829!
  • Herman Goldstein, Fundamental Objectives of Policing: Are They Relevant Today? I Say Yes!
  • Shaping and Adapting: Using the Environment (The Last Hundred Yards) To Unlock the Power of Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop
  • Informative Fair and Impartial Podcast: Do the legal rules for using deadly force, still make sense?
  • Crisis Intervention Teams & Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness: Evolving Tactics That Make a Difference
  • How Does The Last Hundred Yards, Enhance Tactical Responses to Crises?
  • Complacency and False Sense of Urgency: Why We Fail to Take Advantage of The Last Hundred Yards?
  • The Last Hundred Yards: Operate On Blind Luck or Win Consistently?
  • My Good Friend Coach Kevin Kearns talks with 5th & 6th graders about Vision
  • Keeping The Peace in a Free Society Let Us Not Forget Why We Do What We Do
  • How Do We Better Assess and Grade Decision Making and Adaptability in Those We Train?
  • Types of Cases
  • Report: Deadly Calls And Fatal Encounters
  • Developing Individuals with the Ability to Work Together Solving Real World Problems
  • Five-Year Study of Police Officer Deaths: RoboCops or Guardians?
  • The role of humility in the Socratic method by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • Keeping the Peace
  • Experiential Learning Defined
  • How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn
  • Reducing Violence is About Not Grabbing a Gun
  • Boston PD & Boston Red Sox: Full Scale Complex Operating Environment Training Exercise
  • Scouts in Contact Tactical Vignettes for Cavalry Leaders A Book of Tactical Decison Exercises for Cavalry Leaders
  • What is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
  • Sound of Silence A Tribute to Policing and All Those Who Serve The Homeland
  • Problem-Oriented Policing: Where Social Work Meets Law Enforcement
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Altering Public Expectations
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions Regarding Police Fuction
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves…
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society
  • Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
  • 8 Tips to Keep Your Home Wireless Network Secure From Hackers: a guest post from Wichly Cazeau
  • John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Part 3
  • Engaging The Community and Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
  • The Pre-Class Preparation Pyramid By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • We All Lose When it’s Us Verses Them!
  • Facilatating The Adaptive Leader Program at The Army ROTC Leadership Conference at Harvard University
  • A Break It Down Show Pod Cast: Paying Criminal Not to Commit Crimes or is There Something More to The Story?
  • Harvard ROTC Leadership Conference
  • A Discourse on Policing a Free Society
  • We Made the Mandatory Reading for the US Army MPs
  • Patterns of Conflict Pt 2
  • Hand in Hand Project, a new initiative promoting dialogue and interaction between local police officers and young people
  • How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
  • Why Adaptability Trumps Hierarchy?
  • Military Reform Through Education: From The Straus Military Reform Project, Something We In Policing Can Learn From
  • In Building Trust, Actions…Speak Louder Than Words!
  • Somewhere Along the Way
  • Taking It Personally
  • The Facts of the Case By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • J.J. DID TIE BUCKLE Traits I live By
  • On Fitness: Learn from my weakness, my mistakes, and my bad habits
  • Don’t Do It Alone: Developing a Shared Sense of Destiny Requires We’re all on the Same Sheet of Music
  • Recommended Reading List From The California Association of Tactical Officers
  • Values For A New Millennium: A Book That Will Help Bridge the Gap Between People and The Police
  • Teaching Adaptability…and Firearms Training
  • Simon Sinek: Why Reciprocity Improves Mentor Mentee Relationships
  • Felix Nader Discusses The Value of Workplace Violence Prevention
  • Breaking Down Police Work and How To Win at Low Cost: Part 2 Podcast Break It Down Show
  • Boyd: Adapting Isn’t Good Enough
  • Simon Sinek on the responsibility that leaders have to create environments where people are more productive,and inspired
  • The Hunting Story – the meaning of human equality
  • Ethical Warriors with Jack Hoban
  • Emotional Intelligence: Re-Thinking Police Community Relations by Mark Bond
  • Approaching LE with the ‘What’s important now?’ perspective
  • Staying in control when a suspect is aggressive
  • 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
  • Warriors vs. Praetorian Guard – Which Mindset Fits You Best? By Mike Ox
  • ITOA News: Articles By John Farnam, Patrick Van Horne, Jeff Chudwin, Don Vandergriff, Yours Truly and More
  • The importance of mindset in policing with Chip Huth
  • A Discussion on Police Work and How to Win At Low Cost, Connecting The People and Police Gap
  • Be Passionate, Back Up and Empower Your People, and You Will Get The Culture Right
  • Why Are Shared Visions So Important?
  • Technical Skill as a Component of Creativity by Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • I Am Spartacus…No I Am Spartacus: Is Your Police Organization United?
  • The Demand For Autodidacts – The Self-Taught in an Age of Shrinking Budgets by Patrick Van Horne
  • It’s How You Say What You Saw by Patrick Van Horne
  • The Path of Don Vandergriff: A Discussion On Leadership, Learning organizations and Adaptability
  • The Newhall Incident: Failure, Adaptation and Success…Or Lost Opportunity? Published in the latest ITOA News
  • NYPD’s New Strategy for Dealing with Stressful Interactions, Absurd or Realistic?
  • The Mind Can Be Convinced But The Heart Must Be Won
  • Imagine a Police Culture Where People Wake Up Every Day Inspired to Go to Work
  • Open Letter to President’s Task Force on Policing by Louis Hayes
  • The Blame Game: Who @#$%ed This Up?
  • Breaking Down the Stranglehold of Formality
  • Boyd and Beyond: From Marine Corps University to FBI National Academy Boyd’ Ideas are Expanding
  • From The Art of Manliness: John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
  • Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
  • The Case Method Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marine Education by Captain Paul Tremblay Jr USMC
  • Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand…
  • Using Official Histories as Quarries for Case Materials By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Left of Bang By Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
  • The Most Dangerous Weapon in Law Enforcement by Brian Willis
  • Sizing Up Situations Is A Skill, We Need To Develop
  • Change the Culture If I could Only Change One Thing by Don Vandergriff
  • The Five Learning Disciplines
  • Using Complete Stories in Decision Forcing Cases by Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis
  • Tactical Decision Games, Obscure Information and Generating New Ways to Thrive in the Climate of Chaos and Uncertainty
  • Calling on Cops in Class: An Anecdote for Developing Character, Confidence and Sound Tactical Decision Makers
  • Solving Tactical Dilemmas with Indirect Experience (Education & Training) and White Castle Cases
  • Ugly Police Force: Misunderstandings of Law & Human Factors by Lou Hayes
  • Design and Facilitate, Decision Making Exercises Using The Sandwich Metaphor
  • Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare by H. John Poole
  • Developing Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Decision Makers with Case Study’s “Washington’s Crossing”
  • FBI Report: A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States
  • The Art of Manliness Discusses…The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop
  • Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
  • A Police Officers thoughts on the “Militarization” of our police forces.
  • Cops With War Toys: Militarizing police is the worst way to fight crime.
  • “Just the facts Ma’am”
  • Re-Imagine the Way We Lead!
  • A Milestone in Boydian Theory at the Tactical Level
  • CASE STUDY: Ferguson Missouri shooting incident and aftermath by Louis Hayes
  • What is Leadership?
  • Use of Force Investigations: a Manual for Law Enforcement
  • Do You Know How to Get Fullfillment?
  • How Great Leaders Inspire Action
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
  • Adaptive Leadership Handbook, Reviewed [by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]
  • Have We Not Learned Anything From History? Don Vandergriff’s Book Review on American Spartan
  • How Do We Inspire Action?
  • Book Review: Rubicon: The Poetry of War
  • Book Review: American Spartan
  • Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for WWII
  • What are the Basics? Developing for Mission Command by Donald E. Vandergriff
  • IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL
  • Adaptive Leadership By Charles “Sid” Heal and John R. Engbeck
  • Why good leaders make you feel safe
  • Guardians vs. Warriors: What it Takes to Win at Low Cost
  • After Action Review on The Christopher Dorner Incident
  • Adaptive Leader Program
  • Crisis Meta-Leadership Lessons From the Boston Marathon Bombings Response: The Ingenuity of Swarm Intelligence
  • Outstanding piece! The Myth of Mission Command by Don Vandergriff
  • Cops or Soldiers?
  • Situational Assessments: Being Mindful of What’s Important Now!
  • Convinced or Committed?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 For Policing 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
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  • Introduction to Scenario Learning: Guest Post Series with Michael Barr
  • Auftragstaktik in One Simple Diagram by Chet Richards
  • “Leaders Are Teachers”: Great Insights on Leadership and Developing Your People from The Mentorship Forum
  • Great Review Over at the The Mentorship Forum of My Favorite Resource on Developing Adaptability “Raising The Bar”
  • Rethinking the Traditional Teacher-Student Relationship in Conflicts
  • Command and Control During a Disaster: Podcast
  • The Evolving Warfighter Sits Down with Don Vandergriff and Talks Mission Command
  • Developing and Preparing Cops for the Adaptive Challenges of The Street: Instructors Roundtable Podcast Episode
  • Unreflective Speed of Action…Do You Think Its Time Policing Reflects on the Tactical Influence of Time?
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Don Vandergriff – Mission Command, Trusting Your People, To Win
  • I See You…Back Up! On The Call to Win in Crisis and in the Aftermath to Win in Life
  • Technological Negation of Human Sexual Dimorphism: A Guest Post by Franklin C. Annis, EdD
  • Guest Post Home Security Guide from Bank Rate
  • Commonwealth Police Legacy Program of Instruction: Sound Decision Making for Cops
  • Outstanding In Your Face and Much Needed Book Policing and It’s Leaders Can Learn From
  • THE TRUTH BEHIND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS: Great Research Every Cop and Every Citizen Should Read.
  • Thought on Discipline: A Great Podcast Series from All Marine Radio, Every Police Leader Should Listen To
  • Gary Klein – Cognitive Psychologist, Studies Decision Making in Crisis on The Break It Down Show..Outstanding Episode
  • Tactical Decision Making Facilitation Guide Maj McBreen: The Lessons Transfer to Police Instruction as Well
  • 4th Generation Warfare Interview and Yes There Are Lessons for Policing
  • Keys to Training Excellence: Evidence Based Research Policing Can Use
  • Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture by Don Vandergriff
  • Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude: Book Review
  • PODCAST: Tactical Decision Games with Bruce Gudmundsson and Don Vandergriff
  • Podcast: Human Factors and Officer-Involved Shootings
  • Donald Robertson – Stoicism and Thinking Like a Roman Emperor
  • Dr John Sullivan and MAJ John Spencer – The Complexity of Modern Urban War
  • Great Podcast: The Courageous Police Leader – Combating Cowards, Chaos, and Lies
  • Recommended Reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • Another Approach to Tactics Guest Post by Bert DuVernay
  • LYNCH & KENNEY: react to clips of LtGen Van Riper’s “On Discipline” interview on All Marine Radio
  • Outstanding Interview: ON DISCIPLINE: LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (ret)
  • The Learning Insurgency: It’s an Evolution, not a Revolution By Donald E. Vandergriff
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 3: Toxic Bosses
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 2: Repairing Dysfunction in Police Organizations
  • On Policing a Free Society Podcast: Episode 1 Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Impact On Response
  • On Policing a Free Society with Fred Leland A New Podcast Coming in 2019
  • Making Police Training Stick…and Learning How to Learn
  • A New Conception of War: John Boyd The U.S. Marines and Maneuver Warfare
  • Utilizing The Case Method: Some articles by Bruce Gudmundsson to Help Shed Some Light on How Too
  • Use of Force Policy: Dispelling the Myths by Lexipol
  • How to Make a Small Unit Decision Forcing Cases by Bruce Gudmundsson
  • Facilitating Learning a Hybrid Of Methods to Effective Police Officer Development
  • Why The OODA Loop Is Forever By Dan Grazier
  • 15 Tips to Remember when Promoting a Growth Mindset in the Classroom: A Guest Post from USA Test Prep
  • New Edition of Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing by Grant Hammond
  • My Book Review: On Tactics by B. A. Friedman
  • Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone:
  • On Tactics: An Interview with B.A. Friedman
  • Podcast Part 2 from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Podcast from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Walk,Sacrafice, Work …Always Hungry Never Satified! What it Takes to Fight Complacency
  • The Ten Deadly Errors, Plus…Failure to Learn, Failure to Anticipate and Failure to Adapt
  • Turning Tragedy into Victory…We Must Start APPLYING LESSONS LEARNED
  • Police Responses Demands Constant and Repeated Action…Throughout the Tactical Encounter
  • All Police Actions Take Place in an Atmosphere of Uncertainty
  • Adapt or Die: The Call for Police Reform…Is It Reasonable or Necessary?
  • Force Science Assesses Proposed “Necessary” Deadly Force Standard
  • Special Tactics Online Course Intro
  • LESC is Honored to be Part of Special Tactics New Online Training Academy and Full-Featured, Professional Networking Site
  • Leading Discussions and Facilitating Better Training Outcomes
  • Police Leaders Mentoring and Coaching Their People: the Cornerstone to Top Performance in Crises
  • Research: Adaptive Skill as the Conditio Sine Qua Non of Expertise
  • Developing Adaptive Expertise: A Synthesis of Literature and Implications for Training
  • How the Germans Defined Auftragstaktik: What Mission Command is – AND – is Not by Don Vandergriff
  • Avioding Hostilities is the Goal But Sometimes to Gain The Advantage Reasonable Force Must Be Used
  • Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations
  • The Protector Ethic: Morality, Virtue, and Ethics in the Martial Way
  • Police Ethos:The Warrior and Guardian Mindset Are They Not One In the Same?
  • Neighborhood Watch is Homeland Security at the Most Local Level
  • Developing Police Sergeants: Getting the Outcomes and Measures of Effectiveness Right
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 3: Disrupting an Adversary Using Soft and Hard Tactics
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 2: Don’t Just Be a Reactor..Be a Shaper Too!
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 1
  • Smart Tactics Takes Thinking Police Leaders…Leading Thinking Cops
  • Wrestling With Delayed and Immediate Entry, Solo and Team Tactics…Are We Really Expecting All to Go as Rehersed?
  • Guardian Joe: How Less Force Helps The Warrior
  • Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforement Fatalities Between 2010-2016
  • Professional Reading and Development: It Doesn’t Give All the Answers, But It Lights What Is Often a Uncertain Path Ahead
  • What Are The Force Multipliers That Allow Police Organizations to Operate at Rapid OODA Loop Tempos?
  • Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions:Lessons Police Can Learn From The Corporate Rebels
  • What was Boyd Thinking and…What Can Policing Learn From It?
  • Proper Mindset, Situational Awareness, Skill Proficiency and Physical Fitness: Force Multipliers of Great Value to Police
  • Recognizing The Signs and Signals That Lead To Violent Acts At Our Schools and Making Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Them
  • Adaptive Leader Program: Developing Thinking Leaders Who Lead Thinking Officers
  • What Are Mission-Type Orders and How Do They Influence a More Effective Crisis Response?
  • Tactics Are They More High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle the Devil Be Damned or Maneuver and Boyd Cycling an Adversary?
  • There Are No School Solutions, Formulas or Recipes to School Shootings, so How Can We Develop Better Courses of Action?
  • Great Break It Down Show Focus on School Shootings
  • Developing Critically Needed Leadership: A Podcast on Mission Command Building Trust and Cohesion
  • Powerful Facilitation: Two Critical Approaches
  • Powerful Facilitation: Three Critical Competencies
  • STARTING AND GROWING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
  • Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty In Your Organization a Book Review
  • The Case Method In Developing Police: “Cold Calling” Will Have to Be Unambiguous
  • The Biggest Obstacle to Tactical Progress… and How to Beat It
  • Pete’s Combat Wish List Pt 2: Mental Models, Mistakes, Reflection and Learning on the Fly
  • Pete’s Wish List for Combat Warriors. Perhaps Some Lessons for Poliicng as Well?
  • What Affect Does the Human Dimension and Human Bias Have on Policing?
  • What virtues are the most essential for a warrior to live by in order to prepare for, protect against and prevent violence? 
  • Exploring Criminal Justice Careers Check Out the Community for Accredited Online Schools
  • A Great Break It Down Show Podcast on Interview and Interrogation: A Candid Straight Up Discussion
  • Experiential Learning a Big Part of The New Recruit Officer Course In Massachusetts: Looks Promising!
  • Run Out and Buy: Anatomy of a Warrior: The 7 Virtues All Warriors Must Live by to Successfully Protect and Serve
  • Devising Solutions to Complex Police Problems: How Can We Get Better?
  • Podcast with the Break It Down Show A Candid Discussion on Policing a Free Society, Mission Command and More
  • Understanding Problems Range in Complexity and Designing Police Operations
  • When it comes to Police Training, When is Good Enough, Not Good Enough?
  • On The Job Training and Deliberately Framing Experience
  • Police Officer Discretion…and Focusing Our Efforts on Better Outcomes
  • Strength of Character: The Foundation of Working Together and Getting Things Done
  • A free chapter from our new book now available on Amazon
  • A Major Problem We Must Confront as Police Trainers and Students: How To Improve Performance?
  • MISSION COMMAND THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY An Anthology
  • Conflict and Crisis are Full of Friction: The Force That Makes the Apparently Easy so Difficult
  • PODCAST: Don Vandergriff on Military Personnel Reform: The Ideas Discussed Can (SHOULD) be Adapted to Policing As Well!
  • Fire Nobody! by Dave Smith
  • Teaching United States Marine Instructors New Tricks: Developing Adaptability Through Experiential Learning
  • The Why was born out of pain
  • Inspiring People to Lifelong Learning & Impacting Their Ability to Make Sound Decisions 
  • We Can’t Just Use the Same Mental Recipes Over and Over Again: In Police Training We Must Challenge The Prevailing Mindset
  • Reflection Leads to Deeper Learning…Put Each Day Up For Review
  • We Must Train and Educate Within an Uncertain Environment to Prepare to Adapt
  • Defining Policing ‘s Training & Education Challenge…Some Ideas On Achieving High Levels of Professionalism
  • Defensive Tactics for Today’s Law Enforcement
  • Uploading John Boyd: The Legend Delivering His Opus is Online…and is as Relevant as Ever
  • Make Many Mistakes and Learn
  • Is Your Purpose in Life Based on Self Awareness and Strength of Character or Are You Just Following the Crowd?
  • An Officer’s Principal Weapon is His Mind: Professional Development In Policing
  • Outstanding Manual: Law Enforcement Close Quarter Battle: Urban Tactics for Individuals, Teams and Tactical Units
  • The Art of Police Training is the Ability to Move Officers Through the Fog and Complexity of Human Interaction
  • Brian Willis Interviews Yours Truly on Teaching Adaptive Leadership
  • The Police Leader’s True Work: Train Them, Trust Them, Let Them Do Their Job
  • Sir William Slim on His Leadership Motto: No Details, No Paper, And No Regrets
  • The Grid: Is There Better Ways to Approach Police Interactions?
  • Teaching Officers How to Think verses Telling Them What To Think
  • Develop a Philosophy and Understanding of Crime Fighting and Problem Solving That Considers Complexities of Policing
  • Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Book Review
  • Thinking Leaders, Leading Thinking People is the Adaptive Leaders Focus
  • Take Policing From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
  • Are You Serving Those You Lead?
  • Vehicle Stops Strategies and Tactics: Being Safe and Effective Is About Options, Not Best Practices
  • Teaching Adaptability and Making Marines More Effective Trainers
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Better Understanding Policing and Why it Matters
  • The Last 100 Yards Series: High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle or Maneuver: How Are Your Tactics, Officer?
  • Police officers I beg you to please run out and buy this book! What a great tactical resource!
  • Second Episode in This Podcast Series with Complete Emergency Managment: Leadership in Public Safety
  • Podcast: I sit down with George Whitney of Complete EM and discuss: Active Shooters and After Actions
  • Sir Robert Peels, Nine Key Principles of Policing: Fair and Impartial Policing Defined Back In 1829!
  • Herman Goldstein, Fundamental Objectives of Policing: Are They Relevant Today? I Say Yes!
  • Shaping and Adapting: Using the Environment (The Last Hundred Yards) To Unlock the Power of Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop
  • Informative Fair and Impartial Podcast: Do the legal rules for using deadly force, still make sense?
  • Crisis Intervention Teams & Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness: Evolving Tactics That Make a Difference
  • How Does The Last Hundred Yards, Enhance Tactical Responses to Crises?
  • Complacency and False Sense of Urgency: Why We Fail to Take Advantage of The Last Hundred Yards?
  • The Last Hundred Yards: Operate On Blind Luck or Win Consistently?
  • My Good Friend Coach Kevin Kearns talks with 5th & 6th graders about Vision
  • Keeping The Peace in a Free Society Let Us Not Forget Why We Do What We Do
  • How Do We Better Assess and Grade Decision Making and Adaptability in Those We Train?
  • Types of Cases
  • Report: Deadly Calls And Fatal Encounters
  • Developing Individuals with the Ability to Work Together Solving Real World Problems
  • Five-Year Study of Police Officer Deaths: RoboCops or Guardians?
  • The role of humility in the Socratic method by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • Keeping the Peace
  • Experiential Learning Defined
  • How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn
  • Reducing Violence is About Not Grabbing a Gun
  • Boston PD & Boston Red Sox: Full Scale Complex Operating Environment Training Exercise
  • Scouts in Contact Tactical Vignettes for Cavalry Leaders A Book of Tactical Decison Exercises for Cavalry Leaders
  • What is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
  • Sound of Silence A Tribute to Policing and All Those Who Serve The Homeland
  • Problem-Oriented Policing: Where Social Work Meets Law Enforcement
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Altering Public Expectations
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions Regarding Police Fuction
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves…
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society
  • Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
  • 8 Tips to Keep Your Home Wireless Network Secure From Hackers: a guest post from Wichly Cazeau
  • John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Part 3
  • Engaging The Community and Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
  • The Pre-Class Preparation Pyramid By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • We All Lose When it’s Us Verses Them!
  • Facilatating The Adaptive Leader Program at The Army ROTC Leadership Conference at Harvard University
  • A Break It Down Show Pod Cast: Paying Criminal Not to Commit Crimes or is There Something More to The Story?
  • Harvard ROTC Leadership Conference
  • A Discourse on Policing a Free Society
  • We Made the Mandatory Reading for the US Army MPs
  • Patterns of Conflict Pt 2
  • Hand in Hand Project, a new initiative promoting dialogue and interaction between local police officers and young people
  • How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
  • Why Adaptability Trumps Hierarchy?
  • Military Reform Through Education: From The Straus Military Reform Project, Something We In Policing Can Learn From
  • In Building Trust, Actions…Speak Louder Than Words!
  • Somewhere Along the Way
  • Taking It Personally
  • The Facts of the Case By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • J.J. DID TIE BUCKLE Traits I live By
  • On Fitness: Learn from my weakness, my mistakes, and my bad habits
  • Don’t Do It Alone: Developing a Shared Sense of Destiny Requires We’re all on the Same Sheet of Music
  • Recommended Reading List From The California Association of Tactical Officers
  • Values For A New Millennium: A Book That Will Help Bridge the Gap Between People and The Police
  • Teaching Adaptability…and Firearms Training
  • Simon Sinek: Why Reciprocity Improves Mentor Mentee Relationships
  • Felix Nader Discusses The Value of Workplace Violence Prevention
  • Breaking Down Police Work and How To Win at Low Cost: Part 2 Podcast Break It Down Show
  • Boyd: Adapting Isn’t Good Enough
  • Simon Sinek on the responsibility that leaders have to create environments where people are more productive,and inspired
  • The Hunting Story – the meaning of human equality
  • Ethical Warriors with Jack Hoban
  • Emotional Intelligence: Re-Thinking Police Community Relations by Mark Bond
  • Approaching LE with the ‘What’s important now?’ perspective
  • Staying in control when a suspect is aggressive
  • 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
  • Warriors vs. Praetorian Guard – Which Mindset Fits You Best? By Mike Ox
  • ITOA News: Articles By John Farnam, Patrick Van Horne, Jeff Chudwin, Don Vandergriff, Yours Truly and More
  • The importance of mindset in policing with Chip Huth
  • A Discussion on Police Work and How to Win At Low Cost, Connecting The People and Police Gap
  • Be Passionate, Back Up and Empower Your People, and You Will Get The Culture Right
  • Why Are Shared Visions So Important?
  • Technical Skill as a Component of Creativity by Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • I Am Spartacus…No I Am Spartacus: Is Your Police Organization United?
  • The Demand For Autodidacts – The Self-Taught in an Age of Shrinking Budgets by Patrick Van Horne
  • It’s How You Say What You Saw by Patrick Van Horne
  • The Path of Don Vandergriff: A Discussion On Leadership, Learning organizations and Adaptability
  • The Newhall Incident: Failure, Adaptation and Success…Or Lost Opportunity? Published in the latest ITOA News
  • NYPD’s New Strategy for Dealing with Stressful Interactions, Absurd or Realistic?
  • The Mind Can Be Convinced But The Heart Must Be Won
  • Imagine a Police Culture Where People Wake Up Every Day Inspired to Go to Work
  • Open Letter to President’s Task Force on Policing by Louis Hayes
  • The Blame Game: Who @#$%ed This Up?
  • Breaking Down the Stranglehold of Formality
  • Boyd and Beyond: From Marine Corps University to FBI National Academy Boyd’ Ideas are Expanding
  • From The Art of Manliness: John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
  • Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
  • The Case Method Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marine Education by Captain Paul Tremblay Jr USMC
  • Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand…
  • Using Official Histories as Quarries for Case Materials By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Left of Bang By Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
  • The Most Dangerous Weapon in Law Enforcement by Brian Willis
  • Sizing Up Situations Is A Skill, We Need To Develop
  • Change the Culture If I could Only Change One Thing by Don Vandergriff
  • The Five Learning Disciplines
  • Using Complete Stories in Decision Forcing Cases by Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis
  • Tactical Decision Games, Obscure Information and Generating New Ways to Thrive in the Climate of Chaos and Uncertainty
  • Calling on Cops in Class: An Anecdote for Developing Character, Confidence and Sound Tactical Decision Makers
  • Solving Tactical Dilemmas with Indirect Experience (Education & Training) and White Castle Cases
  • Ugly Police Force: Misunderstandings of Law & Human Factors by Lou Hayes
  • Design and Facilitate, Decision Making Exercises Using The Sandwich Metaphor
  • Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare by H. John Poole
  • Developing Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Decision Makers with Case Study’s “Washington’s Crossing”
  • FBI Report: A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States
  • The Art of Manliness Discusses…The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop
  • Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
  • A Police Officers thoughts on the “Militarization” of our police forces.
  • Cops With War Toys: Militarizing police is the worst way to fight crime.
  • “Just the facts Ma’am”
  • Re-Imagine the Way We Lead!
  • A Milestone in Boydian Theory at the Tactical Level
  • CASE STUDY: Ferguson Missouri shooting incident and aftermath by Louis Hayes
  • What is Leadership?
  • Use of Force Investigations: a Manual for Law Enforcement
  • Do You Know How to Get Fullfillment?
  • How Great Leaders Inspire Action
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
  • Adaptive Leadership Handbook, Reviewed [by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]
  • Have We Not Learned Anything From History? Don Vandergriff’s Book Review on American Spartan
  • How Do We Inspire Action?
  • Book Review: Rubicon: The Poetry of War
  • Book Review: American Spartan
  • Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for WWII
  • What are the Basics? Developing for Mission Command by Donald E. Vandergriff
  • IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL
  • Adaptive Leadership By Charles “Sid” Heal and John R. Engbeck
  • Why good leaders make you feel safe
  • Guardians vs. Warriors: What it Takes to Win at Low Cost
  • After Action Review on The Christopher Dorner Incident
  • Adaptive Leader Program
  • Crisis Meta-Leadership Lessons From the Boston Marathon Bombings Response: The Ingenuity of Swarm Intelligence
  • Outstanding piece! The Myth of Mission Command by Don Vandergriff
  • Cops or Soldiers?
  • Situational Assessments: Being Mindful of What’s Important Now!
  • Convinced or Committed?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 For Policing 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
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  • Introduction to Scenario Learning: Guest Post Series with Michael Barr
  • Auftragstaktik in One Simple Diagram by Chet Richards
  • “Leaders Are Teachers”: Great Insights on Leadership and Developing Your People from The Mentorship Forum
  • Great Review Over at the The Mentorship Forum of My Favorite Resource on Developing Adaptability “Raising The Bar”
  • Rethinking the Traditional Teacher-Student Relationship in Conflicts
  • Command and Control During a Disaster: Podcast
  • The Evolving Warfighter Sits Down with Don Vandergriff and Talks Mission Command
  • Developing and Preparing Cops for the Adaptive Challenges of The Street: Instructors Roundtable Podcast Episode
  • Unreflective Speed of Action…Do You Think Its Time Policing Reflects on the Tactical Influence of Time?
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Don Vandergriff – Mission Command, Trusting Your People, To Win
  • I See You…Back Up! On The Call to Win in Crisis and in the Aftermath to Win in Life
  • Technological Negation of Human Sexual Dimorphism: A Guest Post by Franklin C. Annis, EdD
  • Guest Post Home Security Guide from Bank Rate
  • Commonwealth Police Legacy Program of Instruction: Sound Decision Making for Cops
  • Outstanding In Your Face and Much Needed Book Policing and It’s Leaders Can Learn From
  • THE TRUTH BEHIND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS: Great Research Every Cop and Every Citizen Should Read.
  • Thought on Discipline: A Great Podcast Series from All Marine Radio, Every Police Leader Should Listen To
  • Gary Klein – Cognitive Psychologist, Studies Decision Making in Crisis on The Break It Down Show..Outstanding Episode
  • Tactical Decision Making Facilitation Guide Maj McBreen: The Lessons Transfer to Police Instruction as Well
  • 4th Generation Warfare Interview and Yes There Are Lessons for Policing
  • Keys to Training Excellence: Evidence Based Research Policing Can Use
  • Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture by Don Vandergriff
  • Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude: Book Review
  • PODCAST: Tactical Decision Games with Bruce Gudmundsson and Don Vandergriff
  • Podcast: Human Factors and Officer-Involved Shootings
  • Donald Robertson – Stoicism and Thinking Like a Roman Emperor
  • Dr John Sullivan and MAJ John Spencer – The Complexity of Modern Urban War
  • Great Podcast: The Courageous Police Leader – Combating Cowards, Chaos, and Lies
  • Recommended Reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • Another Approach to Tactics Guest Post by Bert DuVernay
  • LYNCH & KENNEY: react to clips of LtGen Van Riper’s “On Discipline” interview on All Marine Radio
  • Outstanding Interview: ON DISCIPLINE: LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (ret)
  • The Learning Insurgency: It’s an Evolution, not a Revolution By Donald E. Vandergriff
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 3: Toxic Bosses
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 2: Repairing Dysfunction in Police Organizations
  • On Policing a Free Society Podcast: Episode 1 Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Impact On Response
  • On Policing a Free Society with Fred Leland A New Podcast Coming in 2019
  • Making Police Training Stick…and Learning How to Learn
  • A New Conception of War: John Boyd The U.S. Marines and Maneuver Warfare
  • Utilizing The Case Method: Some articles by Bruce Gudmundsson to Help Shed Some Light on How Too
  • Use of Force Policy: Dispelling the Myths by Lexipol
  • How to Make a Small Unit Decision Forcing Cases by Bruce Gudmundsson
  • Facilitating Learning a Hybrid Of Methods to Effective Police Officer Development
  • Why The OODA Loop Is Forever By Dan Grazier
  • 15 Tips to Remember when Promoting a Growth Mindset in the Classroom: A Guest Post from USA Test Prep
  • New Edition of Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing by Grant Hammond
  • My Book Review: On Tactics by B. A. Friedman
  • Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone:
  • On Tactics: An Interview with B.A. Friedman
  • Podcast Part 2 from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Podcast from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Walk,Sacrafice, Work …Always Hungry Never Satified! What it Takes to Fight Complacency
  • The Ten Deadly Errors, Plus…Failure to Learn, Failure to Anticipate and Failure to Adapt
  • Turning Tragedy into Victory…We Must Start APPLYING LESSONS LEARNED
  • Police Responses Demands Constant and Repeated Action…Throughout the Tactical Encounter
  • All Police Actions Take Place in an Atmosphere of Uncertainty
  • Adapt or Die: The Call for Police Reform…Is It Reasonable or Necessary?
  • Force Science Assesses Proposed “Necessary” Deadly Force Standard
  • Special Tactics Online Course Intro
  • LESC is Honored to be Part of Special Tactics New Online Training Academy and Full-Featured, Professional Networking Site
  • Leading Discussions and Facilitating Better Training Outcomes
  • Police Leaders Mentoring and Coaching Their People: the Cornerstone to Top Performance in Crises
  • Research: Adaptive Skill as the Conditio Sine Qua Non of Expertise
  • Developing Adaptive Expertise: A Synthesis of Literature and Implications for Training
  • How the Germans Defined Auftragstaktik: What Mission Command is – AND – is Not by Don Vandergriff
  • Avioding Hostilities is the Goal But Sometimes to Gain The Advantage Reasonable Force Must Be Used
  • Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations
  • The Protector Ethic: Morality, Virtue, and Ethics in the Martial Way
  • Police Ethos:The Warrior and Guardian Mindset Are They Not One In the Same?
  • Neighborhood Watch is Homeland Security at the Most Local Level
  • Developing Police Sergeants: Getting the Outcomes and Measures of Effectiveness Right
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 3: Disrupting an Adversary Using Soft and Hard Tactics
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 2: Don’t Just Be a Reactor..Be a Shaper Too!
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 1
  • Smart Tactics Takes Thinking Police Leaders…Leading Thinking Cops
  • Wrestling With Delayed and Immediate Entry, Solo and Team Tactics…Are We Really Expecting All to Go as Rehersed?
  • Guardian Joe: How Less Force Helps The Warrior
  • Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforement Fatalities Between 2010-2016
  • Professional Reading and Development: It Doesn’t Give All the Answers, But It Lights What Is Often a Uncertain Path Ahead
  • What Are The Force Multipliers That Allow Police Organizations to Operate at Rapid OODA Loop Tempos?
  • Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions:Lessons Police Can Learn From The Corporate Rebels
  • What was Boyd Thinking and…What Can Policing Learn From It?
  • Proper Mindset, Situational Awareness, Skill Proficiency and Physical Fitness: Force Multipliers of Great Value to Police
  • Recognizing The Signs and Signals That Lead To Violent Acts At Our Schools and Making Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Them
  • Adaptive Leader Program: Developing Thinking Leaders Who Lead Thinking Officers
  • What Are Mission-Type Orders and How Do They Influence a More Effective Crisis Response?
  • Tactics Are They More High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle the Devil Be Damned or Maneuver and Boyd Cycling an Adversary?
  • There Are No School Solutions, Formulas or Recipes to School Shootings, so How Can We Develop Better Courses of Action?
  • Great Break It Down Show Focus on School Shootings
  • Developing Critically Needed Leadership: A Podcast on Mission Command Building Trust and Cohesion
  • Powerful Facilitation: Two Critical Approaches
  • Powerful Facilitation: Three Critical Competencies
  • STARTING AND GROWING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
  • Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty In Your Organization a Book Review
  • The Case Method In Developing Police: “Cold Calling” Will Have to Be Unambiguous
  • The Biggest Obstacle to Tactical Progress… and How to Beat It
  • Pete’s Combat Wish List Pt 2: Mental Models, Mistakes, Reflection and Learning on the Fly
  • Pete’s Wish List for Combat Warriors. Perhaps Some Lessons for Poliicng as Well?
  • What Affect Does the Human Dimension and Human Bias Have on Policing?
  • What virtues are the most essential for a warrior to live by in order to prepare for, protect against and prevent violence? 
  • Exploring Criminal Justice Careers Check Out the Community for Accredited Online Schools
  • A Great Break It Down Show Podcast on Interview and Interrogation: A Candid Straight Up Discussion
  • Experiential Learning a Big Part of The New Recruit Officer Course In Massachusetts: Looks Promising!
  • Run Out and Buy: Anatomy of a Warrior: The 7 Virtues All Warriors Must Live by to Successfully Protect and Serve
  • Devising Solutions to Complex Police Problems: How Can We Get Better?
  • Podcast with the Break It Down Show A Candid Discussion on Policing a Free Society, Mission Command and More
  • Understanding Problems Range in Complexity and Designing Police Operations
  • When it comes to Police Training, When is Good Enough, Not Good Enough?
  • On The Job Training and Deliberately Framing Experience
  • Police Officer Discretion…and Focusing Our Efforts on Better Outcomes
  • Strength of Character: The Foundation of Working Together and Getting Things Done
  • A free chapter from our new book now available on Amazon
  • A Major Problem We Must Confront as Police Trainers and Students: How To Improve Performance?
  • MISSION COMMAND THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY An Anthology
  • Conflict and Crisis are Full of Friction: The Force That Makes the Apparently Easy so Difficult
  • PODCAST: Don Vandergriff on Military Personnel Reform: The Ideas Discussed Can (SHOULD) be Adapted to Policing As Well!
  • Fire Nobody! by Dave Smith
  • Teaching United States Marine Instructors New Tricks: Developing Adaptability Through Experiential Learning
  • The Why was born out of pain
  • Inspiring People to Lifelong Learning & Impacting Their Ability to Make Sound Decisions 
  • We Can’t Just Use the Same Mental Recipes Over and Over Again: In Police Training We Must Challenge The Prevailing Mindset
  • Reflection Leads to Deeper Learning…Put Each Day Up For Review
  • We Must Train and Educate Within an Uncertain Environment to Prepare to Adapt
  • Defining Policing ‘s Training & Education Challenge…Some Ideas On Achieving High Levels of Professionalism
  • Defensive Tactics for Today’s Law Enforcement
  • Uploading John Boyd: The Legend Delivering His Opus is Online…and is as Relevant as Ever
  • Make Many Mistakes and Learn
  • Is Your Purpose in Life Based on Self Awareness and Strength of Character or Are You Just Following the Crowd?
  • An Officer’s Principal Weapon is His Mind: Professional Development In Policing
  • Outstanding Manual: Law Enforcement Close Quarter Battle: Urban Tactics for Individuals, Teams and Tactical Units
  • The Art of Police Training is the Ability to Move Officers Through the Fog and Complexity of Human Interaction
  • Brian Willis Interviews Yours Truly on Teaching Adaptive Leadership
  • The Police Leader’s True Work: Train Them, Trust Them, Let Them Do Their Job
  • Sir William Slim on His Leadership Motto: No Details, No Paper, And No Regrets
  • The Grid: Is There Better Ways to Approach Police Interactions?
  • Teaching Officers How to Think verses Telling Them What To Think
  • Develop a Philosophy and Understanding of Crime Fighting and Problem Solving That Considers Complexities of Policing
  • Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Book Review
  • Thinking Leaders, Leading Thinking People is the Adaptive Leaders Focus
  • Take Policing From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
  • Are You Serving Those You Lead?
  • Vehicle Stops Strategies and Tactics: Being Safe and Effective Is About Options, Not Best Practices
  • Teaching Adaptability and Making Marines More Effective Trainers
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Better Understanding Policing and Why it Matters
  • The Last 100 Yards Series: High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle or Maneuver: How Are Your Tactics, Officer?
  • Police officers I beg you to please run out and buy this book! What a great tactical resource!
  • Second Episode in This Podcast Series with Complete Emergency Managment: Leadership in Public Safety
  • Podcast: I sit down with George Whitney of Complete EM and discuss: Active Shooters and After Actions
  • Sir Robert Peels, Nine Key Principles of Policing: Fair and Impartial Policing Defined Back In 1829!
  • Herman Goldstein, Fundamental Objectives of Policing: Are They Relevant Today? I Say Yes!
  • Shaping and Adapting: Using the Environment (The Last Hundred Yards) To Unlock the Power of Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop
  • Informative Fair and Impartial Podcast: Do the legal rules for using deadly force, still make sense?
  • Crisis Intervention Teams & Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness: Evolving Tactics That Make a Difference
  • How Does The Last Hundred Yards, Enhance Tactical Responses to Crises?
  • Complacency and False Sense of Urgency: Why We Fail to Take Advantage of The Last Hundred Yards?
  • The Last Hundred Yards: Operate On Blind Luck or Win Consistently?
  • My Good Friend Coach Kevin Kearns talks with 5th & 6th graders about Vision
  • Keeping The Peace in a Free Society Let Us Not Forget Why We Do What We Do
  • How Do We Better Assess and Grade Decision Making and Adaptability in Those We Train?
  • Types of Cases
  • Report: Deadly Calls And Fatal Encounters
  • Developing Individuals with the Ability to Work Together Solving Real World Problems
  • Five-Year Study of Police Officer Deaths: RoboCops or Guardians?
  • The role of humility in the Socratic method by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • Keeping the Peace
  • Experiential Learning Defined
  • How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn
  • Reducing Violence is About Not Grabbing a Gun
  • Boston PD & Boston Red Sox: Full Scale Complex Operating Environment Training Exercise
  • Scouts in Contact Tactical Vignettes for Cavalry Leaders A Book of Tactical Decison Exercises for Cavalry Leaders
  • What is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
  • Sound of Silence A Tribute to Policing and All Those Who Serve The Homeland
  • Problem-Oriented Policing: Where Social Work Meets Law Enforcement
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Altering Public Expectations
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions Regarding Police Fuction
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves…
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society
  • Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
  • 8 Tips to Keep Your Home Wireless Network Secure From Hackers: a guest post from Wichly Cazeau
  • John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Part 3
  • Engaging The Community and Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
  • The Pre-Class Preparation Pyramid By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • We All Lose When it’s Us Verses Them!
  • Facilatating The Adaptive Leader Program at The Army ROTC Leadership Conference at Harvard University
  • A Break It Down Show Pod Cast: Paying Criminal Not to Commit Crimes or is There Something More to The Story?
  • Harvard ROTC Leadership Conference
  • A Discourse on Policing a Free Society
  • We Made the Mandatory Reading for the US Army MPs
  • Patterns of Conflict Pt 2
  • Hand in Hand Project, a new initiative promoting dialogue and interaction between local police officers and young people
  • How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
  • Why Adaptability Trumps Hierarchy?
  • Military Reform Through Education: From The Straus Military Reform Project, Something We In Policing Can Learn From
  • In Building Trust, Actions…Speak Louder Than Words!
  • Somewhere Along the Way
  • Taking It Personally
  • The Facts of the Case By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • J.J. DID TIE BUCKLE Traits I live By
  • On Fitness: Learn from my weakness, my mistakes, and my bad habits
  • Don’t Do It Alone: Developing a Shared Sense of Destiny Requires We’re all on the Same Sheet of Music
  • Recommended Reading List From The California Association of Tactical Officers
  • Values For A New Millennium: A Book That Will Help Bridge the Gap Between People and The Police
  • Teaching Adaptability…and Firearms Training
  • Simon Sinek: Why Reciprocity Improves Mentor Mentee Relationships
  • Felix Nader Discusses The Value of Workplace Violence Prevention
  • Breaking Down Police Work and How To Win at Low Cost: Part 2 Podcast Break It Down Show
  • Boyd: Adapting Isn’t Good Enough
  • Simon Sinek on the responsibility that leaders have to create environments where people are more productive,and inspired
  • The Hunting Story – the meaning of human equality
  • Ethical Warriors with Jack Hoban
  • Emotional Intelligence: Re-Thinking Police Community Relations by Mark Bond
  • Approaching LE with the ‘What’s important now?’ perspective
  • Staying in control when a suspect is aggressive
  • 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
  • Warriors vs. Praetorian Guard – Which Mindset Fits You Best? By Mike Ox
  • ITOA News: Articles By John Farnam, Patrick Van Horne, Jeff Chudwin, Don Vandergriff, Yours Truly and More
  • The importance of mindset in policing with Chip Huth
  • A Discussion on Police Work and How to Win At Low Cost, Connecting The People and Police Gap
  • Be Passionate, Back Up and Empower Your People, and You Will Get The Culture Right
  • Why Are Shared Visions So Important?
  • Technical Skill as a Component of Creativity by Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • I Am Spartacus…No I Am Spartacus: Is Your Police Organization United?
  • The Demand For Autodidacts – The Self-Taught in an Age of Shrinking Budgets by Patrick Van Horne
  • It’s How You Say What You Saw by Patrick Van Horne
  • The Path of Don Vandergriff: A Discussion On Leadership, Learning organizations and Adaptability
  • The Newhall Incident: Failure, Adaptation and Success…Or Lost Opportunity? Published in the latest ITOA News
  • NYPD’s New Strategy for Dealing with Stressful Interactions, Absurd or Realistic?
  • The Mind Can Be Convinced But The Heart Must Be Won
  • Imagine a Police Culture Where People Wake Up Every Day Inspired to Go to Work
  • Open Letter to President’s Task Force on Policing by Louis Hayes
  • The Blame Game: Who @#$%ed This Up?
  • Breaking Down the Stranglehold of Formality
  • Boyd and Beyond: From Marine Corps University to FBI National Academy Boyd’ Ideas are Expanding
  • From The Art of Manliness: John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
  • Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
  • The Case Method Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marine Education by Captain Paul Tremblay Jr USMC
  • Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand…
  • Using Official Histories as Quarries for Case Materials By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Left of Bang By Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
  • The Most Dangerous Weapon in Law Enforcement by Brian Willis
  • Sizing Up Situations Is A Skill, We Need To Develop
  • Change the Culture If I could Only Change One Thing by Don Vandergriff
  • The Five Learning Disciplines
  • Using Complete Stories in Decision Forcing Cases by Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis
  • Tactical Decision Games, Obscure Information and Generating New Ways to Thrive in the Climate of Chaos and Uncertainty
  • Calling on Cops in Class: An Anecdote for Developing Character, Confidence and Sound Tactical Decision Makers
  • Solving Tactical Dilemmas with Indirect Experience (Education & Training) and White Castle Cases
  • Ugly Police Force: Misunderstandings of Law & Human Factors by Lou Hayes
  • Design and Facilitate, Decision Making Exercises Using The Sandwich Metaphor
  • Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare by H. John Poole
  • Developing Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Decision Makers with Case Study’s “Washington’s Crossing”
  • FBI Report: A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States
  • The Art of Manliness Discusses…The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop
  • Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
  • A Police Officers thoughts on the “Militarization” of our police forces.
  • Cops With War Toys: Militarizing police is the worst way to fight crime.
  • “Just the facts Ma’am”
  • Re-Imagine the Way We Lead!
  • A Milestone in Boydian Theory at the Tactical Level
  • CASE STUDY: Ferguson Missouri shooting incident and aftermath by Louis Hayes
  • What is Leadership?
  • Use of Force Investigations: a Manual for Law Enforcement
  • Do You Know How to Get Fullfillment?
  • How Great Leaders Inspire Action
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
  • Adaptive Leadership Handbook, Reviewed [by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]
  • Have We Not Learned Anything From History? Don Vandergriff’s Book Review on American Spartan
  • How Do We Inspire Action?
  • Book Review: Rubicon: The Poetry of War
  • Book Review: American Spartan
  • Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for WWII
  • What are the Basics? Developing for Mission Command by Donald E. Vandergriff
  • IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL
  • Adaptive Leadership By Charles “Sid” Heal and John R. Engbeck
  • Why good leaders make you feel safe
  • Guardians vs. Warriors: What it Takes to Win at Low Cost
  • After Action Review on The Christopher Dorner Incident
  • Adaptive Leader Program
  • Crisis Meta-Leadership Lessons From the Boston Marathon Bombings Response: The Ingenuity of Swarm Intelligence
  • Outstanding piece! The Myth of Mission Command by Don Vandergriff
  • Cops or Soldiers?
  • Situational Assessments: Being Mindful of What’s Important Now!
  • Convinced or Committed?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 For Policing 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
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  • Introduction to Scenario Learning: Guest Post Series with Michael Barr
  • Auftragstaktik in One Simple Diagram by Chet Richards
  • “Leaders Are Teachers”: Great Insights on Leadership and Developing Your People from The Mentorship Forum
  • Great Review Over at the The Mentorship Forum of My Favorite Resource on Developing Adaptability “Raising The Bar”
  • Rethinking the Traditional Teacher-Student Relationship in Conflicts
  • Command and Control During a Disaster: Podcast
  • The Evolving Warfighter Sits Down with Don Vandergriff and Talks Mission Command
  • Developing and Preparing Cops for the Adaptive Challenges of The Street: Instructors Roundtable Podcast Episode
  • Unreflective Speed of Action…Do You Think Its Time Policing Reflects on the Tactical Influence of Time?
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Don Vandergriff – Mission Command, Trusting Your People, To Win
  • I See You…Back Up! On The Call to Win in Crisis and in the Aftermath to Win in Life
  • Technological Negation of Human Sexual Dimorphism: A Guest Post by Franklin C. Annis, EdD
  • Guest Post Home Security Guide from Bank Rate
  • Commonwealth Police Legacy Program of Instruction: Sound Decision Making for Cops
  • Outstanding In Your Face and Much Needed Book Policing and It’s Leaders Can Learn From
  • THE TRUTH BEHIND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS: Great Research Every Cop and Every Citizen Should Read.
  • Thought on Discipline: A Great Podcast Series from All Marine Radio, Every Police Leader Should Listen To
  • Gary Klein – Cognitive Psychologist, Studies Decision Making in Crisis on The Break It Down Show..Outstanding Episode
  • Tactical Decision Making Facilitation Guide Maj McBreen: The Lessons Transfer to Police Instruction as Well
  • 4th Generation Warfare Interview and Yes There Are Lessons for Policing
  • Keys to Training Excellence: Evidence Based Research Policing Can Use
  • Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture by Don Vandergriff
  • Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude: Book Review
  • PODCAST: Tactical Decision Games with Bruce Gudmundsson and Don Vandergriff
  • Podcast: Human Factors and Officer-Involved Shootings
  • Donald Robertson – Stoicism and Thinking Like a Roman Emperor
  • Dr John Sullivan and MAJ John Spencer – The Complexity of Modern Urban War
  • Great Podcast: The Courageous Police Leader – Combating Cowards, Chaos, and Lies
  • Recommended Reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • Another Approach to Tactics Guest Post by Bert DuVernay
  • LYNCH & KENNEY: react to clips of LtGen Van Riper’s “On Discipline” interview on All Marine Radio
  • Outstanding Interview: ON DISCIPLINE: LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (ret)
  • The Learning Insurgency: It’s an Evolution, not a Revolution By Donald E. Vandergriff
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 3: Toxic Bosses
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 2: Repairing Dysfunction in Police Organizations
  • On Policing a Free Society Podcast: Episode 1 Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Impact On Response
  • On Policing a Free Society with Fred Leland A New Podcast Coming in 2019
  • Making Police Training Stick…and Learning How to Learn
  • A New Conception of War: John Boyd The U.S. Marines and Maneuver Warfare
  • Utilizing The Case Method: Some articles by Bruce Gudmundsson to Help Shed Some Light on How Too
  • Use of Force Policy: Dispelling the Myths by Lexipol
  • How to Make a Small Unit Decision Forcing Cases by Bruce Gudmundsson
  • Facilitating Learning a Hybrid Of Methods to Effective Police Officer Development
  • Why The OODA Loop Is Forever By Dan Grazier
  • 15 Tips to Remember when Promoting a Growth Mindset in the Classroom: A Guest Post from USA Test Prep
  • New Edition of Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing by Grant Hammond
  • My Book Review: On Tactics by B. A. Friedman
  • Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone:
  • On Tactics: An Interview with B.A. Friedman
  • Podcast Part 2 from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Podcast from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Walk,Sacrafice, Work …Always Hungry Never Satified! What it Takes to Fight Complacency
  • The Ten Deadly Errors, Plus…Failure to Learn, Failure to Anticipate and Failure to Adapt
  • Turning Tragedy into Victory…We Must Start APPLYING LESSONS LEARNED
  • Police Responses Demands Constant and Repeated Action…Throughout the Tactical Encounter
  • All Police Actions Take Place in an Atmosphere of Uncertainty
  • Adapt or Die: The Call for Police Reform…Is It Reasonable or Necessary?
  • Force Science Assesses Proposed “Necessary” Deadly Force Standard
  • Special Tactics Online Course Intro
  • LESC is Honored to be Part of Special Tactics New Online Training Academy and Full-Featured, Professional Networking Site
  • Leading Discussions and Facilitating Better Training Outcomes
  • Police Leaders Mentoring and Coaching Their People: the Cornerstone to Top Performance in Crises
  • Research: Adaptive Skill as the Conditio Sine Qua Non of Expertise
  • Developing Adaptive Expertise: A Synthesis of Literature and Implications for Training
  • How the Germans Defined Auftragstaktik: What Mission Command is – AND – is Not by Don Vandergriff
  • Avioding Hostilities is the Goal But Sometimes to Gain The Advantage Reasonable Force Must Be Used
  • Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations
  • The Protector Ethic: Morality, Virtue, and Ethics in the Martial Way
  • Police Ethos:The Warrior and Guardian Mindset Are They Not One In the Same?
  • Neighborhood Watch is Homeland Security at the Most Local Level
  • Developing Police Sergeants: Getting the Outcomes and Measures of Effectiveness Right
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 3: Disrupting an Adversary Using Soft and Hard Tactics
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 2: Don’t Just Be a Reactor..Be a Shaper Too!
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 1
  • Smart Tactics Takes Thinking Police Leaders…Leading Thinking Cops
  • Wrestling With Delayed and Immediate Entry, Solo and Team Tactics…Are We Really Expecting All to Go as Rehersed?
  • Guardian Joe: How Less Force Helps The Warrior
  • Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforement Fatalities Between 2010-2016
  • Professional Reading and Development: It Doesn’t Give All the Answers, But It Lights What Is Often a Uncertain Path Ahead
  • What Are The Force Multipliers That Allow Police Organizations to Operate at Rapid OODA Loop Tempos?
  • Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions:Lessons Police Can Learn From The Corporate Rebels
  • What was Boyd Thinking and…What Can Policing Learn From It?
  • Proper Mindset, Situational Awareness, Skill Proficiency and Physical Fitness: Force Multipliers of Great Value to Police
  • Recognizing The Signs and Signals That Lead To Violent Acts At Our Schools and Making Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Them
  • Adaptive Leader Program: Developing Thinking Leaders Who Lead Thinking Officers
  • What Are Mission-Type Orders and How Do They Influence a More Effective Crisis Response?
  • Tactics Are They More High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle the Devil Be Damned or Maneuver and Boyd Cycling an Adversary?
  • There Are No School Solutions, Formulas or Recipes to School Shootings, so How Can We Develop Better Courses of Action?
  • Great Break It Down Show Focus on School Shootings
  • Developing Critically Needed Leadership: A Podcast on Mission Command Building Trust and Cohesion
  • Powerful Facilitation: Two Critical Approaches
  • Powerful Facilitation: Three Critical Competencies
  • STARTING AND GROWING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
  • Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty In Your Organization a Book Review
  • The Case Method In Developing Police: “Cold Calling” Will Have to Be Unambiguous
  • The Biggest Obstacle to Tactical Progress… and How to Beat It
  • Pete’s Combat Wish List Pt 2: Mental Models, Mistakes, Reflection and Learning on the Fly
  • Pete’s Wish List for Combat Warriors. Perhaps Some Lessons for Poliicng as Well?
  • What Affect Does the Human Dimension and Human Bias Have on Policing?
  • What virtues are the most essential for a warrior to live by in order to prepare for, protect against and prevent violence? 
  • Exploring Criminal Justice Careers Check Out the Community for Accredited Online Schools
  • A Great Break It Down Show Podcast on Interview and Interrogation: A Candid Straight Up Discussion
  • Experiential Learning a Big Part of The New Recruit Officer Course In Massachusetts: Looks Promising!
  • Run Out and Buy: Anatomy of a Warrior: The 7 Virtues All Warriors Must Live by to Successfully Protect and Serve
  • Devising Solutions to Complex Police Problems: How Can We Get Better?
  • Podcast with the Break It Down Show A Candid Discussion on Policing a Free Society, Mission Command and More
  • Understanding Problems Range in Complexity and Designing Police Operations
  • When it comes to Police Training, When is Good Enough, Not Good Enough?
  • On The Job Training and Deliberately Framing Experience
  • Police Officer Discretion…and Focusing Our Efforts on Better Outcomes
  • Strength of Character: The Foundation of Working Together and Getting Things Done
  • A free chapter from our new book now available on Amazon
  • A Major Problem We Must Confront as Police Trainers and Students: How To Improve Performance?
  • MISSION COMMAND THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY An Anthology
  • Conflict and Crisis are Full of Friction: The Force That Makes the Apparently Easy so Difficult
  • PODCAST: Don Vandergriff on Military Personnel Reform: The Ideas Discussed Can (SHOULD) be Adapted to Policing As Well!
  • Fire Nobody! by Dave Smith
  • Teaching United States Marine Instructors New Tricks: Developing Adaptability Through Experiential Learning
  • The Why was born out of pain
  • Inspiring People to Lifelong Learning & Impacting Their Ability to Make Sound Decisions 
  • We Can’t Just Use the Same Mental Recipes Over and Over Again: In Police Training We Must Challenge The Prevailing Mindset
  • Reflection Leads to Deeper Learning…Put Each Day Up For Review
  • We Must Train and Educate Within an Uncertain Environment to Prepare to Adapt
  • Defining Policing ‘s Training & Education Challenge…Some Ideas On Achieving High Levels of Professionalism
  • Defensive Tactics for Today’s Law Enforcement
  • Uploading John Boyd: The Legend Delivering His Opus is Online…and is as Relevant as Ever
  • Make Many Mistakes and Learn
  • Is Your Purpose in Life Based on Self Awareness and Strength of Character or Are You Just Following the Crowd?
  • An Officer’s Principal Weapon is His Mind: Professional Development In Policing
  • Outstanding Manual: Law Enforcement Close Quarter Battle: Urban Tactics for Individuals, Teams and Tactical Units
  • The Art of Police Training is the Ability to Move Officers Through the Fog and Complexity of Human Interaction
  • Brian Willis Interviews Yours Truly on Teaching Adaptive Leadership
  • The Police Leader’s True Work: Train Them, Trust Them, Let Them Do Their Job
  • Sir William Slim on His Leadership Motto: No Details, No Paper, And No Regrets
  • The Grid: Is There Better Ways to Approach Police Interactions?
  • Teaching Officers How to Think verses Telling Them What To Think
  • Develop a Philosophy and Understanding of Crime Fighting and Problem Solving That Considers Complexities of Policing
  • Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Book Review
  • Thinking Leaders, Leading Thinking People is the Adaptive Leaders Focus
  • Take Policing From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
  • Are You Serving Those You Lead?
  • Vehicle Stops Strategies and Tactics: Being Safe and Effective Is About Options, Not Best Practices
  • Teaching Adaptability and Making Marines More Effective Trainers
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Better Understanding Policing and Why it Matters
  • The Last 100 Yards Series: High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle or Maneuver: How Are Your Tactics, Officer?
  • Police officers I beg you to please run out and buy this book! What a great tactical resource!
  • Second Episode in This Podcast Series with Complete Emergency Managment: Leadership in Public Safety
  • Podcast: I sit down with George Whitney of Complete EM and discuss: Active Shooters and After Actions
  • Sir Robert Peels, Nine Key Principles of Policing: Fair and Impartial Policing Defined Back In 1829!
  • Herman Goldstein, Fundamental Objectives of Policing: Are They Relevant Today? I Say Yes!
  • Shaping and Adapting: Using the Environment (The Last Hundred Yards) To Unlock the Power of Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop
  • Informative Fair and Impartial Podcast: Do the legal rules for using deadly force, still make sense?
  • Crisis Intervention Teams & Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness: Evolving Tactics That Make a Difference
  • How Does The Last Hundred Yards, Enhance Tactical Responses to Crises?
  • Complacency and False Sense of Urgency: Why We Fail to Take Advantage of The Last Hundred Yards?
  • The Last Hundred Yards: Operate On Blind Luck or Win Consistently?
  • My Good Friend Coach Kevin Kearns talks with 5th & 6th graders about Vision
  • Keeping The Peace in a Free Society Let Us Not Forget Why We Do What We Do
  • How Do We Better Assess and Grade Decision Making and Adaptability in Those We Train?
  • Types of Cases
  • Report: Deadly Calls And Fatal Encounters
  • Developing Individuals with the Ability to Work Together Solving Real World Problems
  • Five-Year Study of Police Officer Deaths: RoboCops or Guardians?
  • The role of humility in the Socratic method by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • Keeping the Peace
  • Experiential Learning Defined
  • How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn
  • Reducing Violence is About Not Grabbing a Gun
  • Boston PD & Boston Red Sox: Full Scale Complex Operating Environment Training Exercise
  • Scouts in Contact Tactical Vignettes for Cavalry Leaders A Book of Tactical Decison Exercises for Cavalry Leaders
  • What is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
  • Sound of Silence A Tribute to Policing and All Those Who Serve The Homeland
  • Problem-Oriented Policing: Where Social Work Meets Law Enforcement
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Altering Public Expectations
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions Regarding Police Fuction
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves…
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society
  • Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
  • 8 Tips to Keep Your Home Wireless Network Secure From Hackers: a guest post from Wichly Cazeau
  • John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Part 3
  • Engaging The Community and Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
  • The Pre-Class Preparation Pyramid By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • We All Lose When it’s Us Verses Them!
  • Facilatating The Adaptive Leader Program at The Army ROTC Leadership Conference at Harvard University
  • A Break It Down Show Pod Cast: Paying Criminal Not to Commit Crimes or is There Something More to The Story?
  • Harvard ROTC Leadership Conference
  • A Discourse on Policing a Free Society
  • We Made the Mandatory Reading for the US Army MPs
  • Patterns of Conflict Pt 2
  • Hand in Hand Project, a new initiative promoting dialogue and interaction between local police officers and young people
  • How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
  • Why Adaptability Trumps Hierarchy?
  • Military Reform Through Education: From The Straus Military Reform Project, Something We In Policing Can Learn From
  • In Building Trust, Actions…Speak Louder Than Words!
  • Somewhere Along the Way
  • Taking It Personally
  • The Facts of the Case By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • J.J. DID TIE BUCKLE Traits I live By
  • On Fitness: Learn from my weakness, my mistakes, and my bad habits
  • Don’t Do It Alone: Developing a Shared Sense of Destiny Requires We’re all on the Same Sheet of Music
  • Recommended Reading List From The California Association of Tactical Officers
  • Values For A New Millennium: A Book That Will Help Bridge the Gap Between People and The Police
  • Teaching Adaptability…and Firearms Training
  • Simon Sinek: Why Reciprocity Improves Mentor Mentee Relationships
  • Felix Nader Discusses The Value of Workplace Violence Prevention
  • Breaking Down Police Work and How To Win at Low Cost: Part 2 Podcast Break It Down Show
  • Boyd: Adapting Isn’t Good Enough
  • Simon Sinek on the responsibility that leaders have to create environments where people are more productive,and inspired
  • The Hunting Story – the meaning of human equality
  • Ethical Warriors with Jack Hoban
  • Emotional Intelligence: Re-Thinking Police Community Relations by Mark Bond
  • Approaching LE with the ‘What’s important now?’ perspective
  • Staying in control when a suspect is aggressive
  • 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
  • Warriors vs. Praetorian Guard – Which Mindset Fits You Best? By Mike Ox
  • ITOA News: Articles By John Farnam, Patrick Van Horne, Jeff Chudwin, Don Vandergriff, Yours Truly and More
  • The importance of mindset in policing with Chip Huth
  • A Discussion on Police Work and How to Win At Low Cost, Connecting The People and Police Gap
  • Be Passionate, Back Up and Empower Your People, and You Will Get The Culture Right
  • Why Are Shared Visions So Important?
  • Technical Skill as a Component of Creativity by Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • I Am Spartacus…No I Am Spartacus: Is Your Police Organization United?
  • The Demand For Autodidacts – The Self-Taught in an Age of Shrinking Budgets by Patrick Van Horne
  • It’s How You Say What You Saw by Patrick Van Horne
  • The Path of Don Vandergriff: A Discussion On Leadership, Learning organizations and Adaptability
  • The Newhall Incident: Failure, Adaptation and Success…Or Lost Opportunity? Published in the latest ITOA News
  • NYPD’s New Strategy for Dealing with Stressful Interactions, Absurd or Realistic?
  • The Mind Can Be Convinced But The Heart Must Be Won
  • Imagine a Police Culture Where People Wake Up Every Day Inspired to Go to Work
  • Open Letter to President’s Task Force on Policing by Louis Hayes
  • The Blame Game: Who @#$%ed This Up?
  • Breaking Down the Stranglehold of Formality
  • Boyd and Beyond: From Marine Corps University to FBI National Academy Boyd’ Ideas are Expanding
  • From The Art of Manliness: John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
  • Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
  • The Case Method Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marine Education by Captain Paul Tremblay Jr USMC
  • Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand…
  • Using Official Histories as Quarries for Case Materials By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Left of Bang By Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
  • The Most Dangerous Weapon in Law Enforcement by Brian Willis
  • Sizing Up Situations Is A Skill, We Need To Develop
  • Change the Culture If I could Only Change One Thing by Don Vandergriff
  • The Five Learning Disciplines
  • Using Complete Stories in Decision Forcing Cases by Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis
  • Tactical Decision Games, Obscure Information and Generating New Ways to Thrive in the Climate of Chaos and Uncertainty
  • Calling on Cops in Class: An Anecdote for Developing Character, Confidence and Sound Tactical Decision Makers
  • Solving Tactical Dilemmas with Indirect Experience (Education & Training) and White Castle Cases
  • Ugly Police Force: Misunderstandings of Law & Human Factors by Lou Hayes
  • Design and Facilitate, Decision Making Exercises Using The Sandwich Metaphor
  • Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare by H. John Poole
  • Developing Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Decision Makers with Case Study’s “Washington’s Crossing”
  • FBI Report: A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States
  • The Art of Manliness Discusses…The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop
  • Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
  • A Police Officers thoughts on the “Militarization” of our police forces.
  • Cops With War Toys: Militarizing police is the worst way to fight crime.
  • “Just the facts Ma’am”
  • Re-Imagine the Way We Lead!
  • A Milestone in Boydian Theory at the Tactical Level
  • CASE STUDY: Ferguson Missouri shooting incident and aftermath by Louis Hayes
  • What is Leadership?
  • Use of Force Investigations: a Manual for Law Enforcement
  • Do You Know How to Get Fullfillment?
  • How Great Leaders Inspire Action
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
  • Adaptive Leadership Handbook, Reviewed [by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]
  • Have We Not Learned Anything From History? Don Vandergriff’s Book Review on American Spartan
  • How Do We Inspire Action?
  • Book Review: Rubicon: The Poetry of War
  • Book Review: American Spartan
  • Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for WWII
  • What are the Basics? Developing for Mission Command by Donald E. Vandergriff
  • IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL
  • Adaptive Leadership By Charles “Sid” Heal and John R. Engbeck
  • Why good leaders make you feel safe
  • Guardians vs. Warriors: What it Takes to Win at Low Cost
  • After Action Review on The Christopher Dorner Incident
  • Adaptive Leader Program
  • Crisis Meta-Leadership Lessons From the Boston Marathon Bombings Response: The Ingenuity of Swarm Intelligence
  • Outstanding piece! The Myth of Mission Command by Don Vandergriff
  • Cops or Soldiers?
  • Situational Assessments: Being Mindful of What’s Important Now!
  • Convinced or Committed?
  • 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
  • Don’t Fear Failure; Instead Make Failure Your Classroom
  • In Forging Adaptability…Distinguish Technical Problems from Adaptive Challenges
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Followers of this blog and those I have worked with know the workshops I run utilize tactical decision games, in the form of pen and paper exercises, tabletops and force on force free play exercises involving the use of Simmunitions. Also in these workshops we stress the importance of identifying lessons learned utilizing the after action review process. These training methods all stem from creating and nurturing both the individual and organizational cognitive and physical skills necessary to observe, orient, decide and act while according with an adversary(s). In short these types of exercises build strategic and tactical thinking skills and tactical physical skills. These types of exercises build strength of character and hence confidence in our individual tactical decisions in accord with the overall strategic intent of the organization.

“Autonomy, mastery and purpose” as Daniel Pink states, are the pillars to opening up insights, innovative thinking, and creative solutions to problems to effectively run organizations. These individual abilities are developed through robust interaction with others, others from your field or profession, as well as others from a vast array of disciplines. The cross disciplinary effect and insight gained form stepping outside your current way of thinking is very powerful. The problems we seek to solve and the rate at which they are solved increases by creating and nurturing individual thinkers and doers who are willing to collaborate with others while seeking solutions. This, all in an effort to learn, unlearn and relearn, hone and adapt our procedures and methods so we tackle problems in the most adaptive and effective ways.

Learning, unlearning and relearning is an important, yet often forgotten factor in the world of law enforcement. This is important for us because we often times respond to novel and uncertain situations with rote, by-the-book tactics. Novel and uncertain situations are all too common in police work when emotional people are involved, and this tends to focus our minds on only one way of solving problems. This checklist approach often times stifles initiative and the ability to adapt as we cops search for the answers in our heads that stay in line with our written procedures. This can both put officers in jeopardy and have a drastic impact on our effectiveness by creating friction in our decision making cycle, individually and organizationally. In short we are caught up in searching for the right way of doing things when in reality there is no one right way, no one solution to the host of problems we are tasked with solving. This also holds true when it comes to training methodologies.

Most institutional training had a mechanical, check-the-block feel, was focused on throughput, and was often governed by inputs (hours, ammo, etc.) rather than outcomes or results. Training methodology, combined with too many rules, stifled initiative while officers in training were waiting to be told what to do. Program outlines were developed that compensated for instructor inadequacies by providing them a script. This may have prevented failure in some, but it prevented excellence in many. Training methods often not in harmony with human nature and how we make decisions. Training rarely required real problem solving and initiative and training programs misapplied stress: too much at the beginning, too little at the end. There was little room for experimentation or mistakes in training with much of the program focused on meeting minimum standards and avoiding failure, not on excellence. Faulty assumptions about how humans make decisions were not factored into training and students could succeed without understanding the why behind decisions. We spent way too much time telling people what to think instead of teaching them how to think. I would like to discuss an easy to do, fast and robust approach to solving problems called critical question mapping.

While attending the Boyd and Beyond Conference in Quantico October 14th and 15th I learned about an innovative process to solving problems called Critical Question Mapping (CQM). CQM method of problem solving is a methodology, I believe, law enforcement can utilize in enhancing their planning, strategies and tactics especially in those critical incidents that involve multi-person, multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional approach. The CQM method is utilized in the preparation phase, in training, by answering critical questions needed to solve a strategic or tactical problem, and in after action reviews to learn how to better respond in future scenarios

Critical Question Mapping methodology was developed by Dr. Terence (Terry) Barnhart who is a consultant, researcher, and facilitator at the drug company Pfizer. His work originally focused on creating environments in which scientists could flourish, but now extends to leadership, strategy and now even the Marine Corps is starting to use some of his work. Like the teams we work with, police, fire, school and town administrators and so on, his corporate teams are made up of people who rarely interact and have different goals and demands. Bringing them together in the conventional ways just wasn’t creating the performance improvements needed, to support this effort, he had to create new methodology, like Critical Question Mapping, tin order to create insight, facilitate learning and accomplishment, and build shared purpose to rapidly increases the performance of a group. He has taught and applied insights in this work, regularly doubling or better, the performance of teams as wide ranging as Pfizer’s Alzheimer’s disease research unit to elements of the Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School, from a candy and food manufacturer’s product development team, to R&D within the world’s largest consumer product company.

Critical Question Mapping is based on Dr. Barnhart’s research and his efforts in “creating a robust method to align complex innovation problems.”

The context:

  1. Solving large, multi-dimensional problems is mentally challenging – Gaps and missteps can derail the solution
    • Like doing higher math while driving a car – It is just easier when you can write things down
  2. Solutions to large, complex problems involve coordinating activity of many people in:
    • Developing solutions
    • Aligning solutions into a coherent system
    • Adopting solutions and delivering the system
  3. Problem solving of any sort requires creativity
    • The more creative, the better the potential for breakthrough

The challenge

  1. Identify a method which provides:
    • Robust structure to frame problems without gaps
    • Alignment and coordination between multiple people against a common problem solving goal
    • Greatest amount of creativity in the solving of a strategic problem

One of the problems in meeting the challenge of solving complex problems Dr. Barnhart observed was; “when people think in statements, they lock into the implications of that statement.” In other words we lock into to what we have been told or taught. We mentally lock into a certain way of doing things, following policy or procedure to a fault. This stifles initiative and adaptability. “People’s ability to consider alternatives diminishes. Their ability to expand ideas diminishes.” This should sound very familiar to law enforcement and security professionals who often times take it upon themselves acting alone, in solving crisis situations.

Dr. Barnhart’s research led him to understand in contrast to thinking in statements, here’s what to do and how to do it! “When people think in questions, they open their orientation to see many options. They develop the ability to “debate enthusiastically, and build better, easier, more quickly developed options and structure strategic issues quickly and easily.” People develop rapport and mutual trust, through the process and begin to “collaborate on development and realization of solutions.”

Developing Critical Question Maps

Dr. Barnhart describes critical question mapping as a five-step process:

    1. Define a strategic problem or question for a team to resolve or answer.
    2. The team brainstorms all of the questions they can think of that need to be answered in order to resolve the problem or question.
    3. The team arranges the questions on a large map in causal order or flow.
    4. The team reviews the completed map, removing overlaps and identifying gaps.
    5. The team adds missing questions, removes redundant questions, and identifies issues for future brainstorming sessions

I mentioned above I learned about the CQM methodology on October 14 and 15 2011 while attending the Boyd and Beyond Conference where Terry Barnhart put the 67 people in attendance through an exercise testing the method. In my view from two days of using and learning about the process, it is a powerful methodology we in law enforcement and security can use in our efforts to prepare for the complex problems we deal with. I decided I would experiment with the CQM method in preparing for the full scale school violence response exercise Walpole would be conducting on October 28th. Below is a summary of my experience using CQM, preparing the town of Walpole for a large scale exercise, and implementing the school violence response plan.

CQM and Crisis Management

Over the last year I had the opportunity and privilege, with the help of many others (members of the Walpole police, school, fire departments, DPW, health department, local emergency planning committee and the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council), preparing the town of Walpole for a large scale school violence emergency response drill. The exercise was designed to test the town’s readiness in their abilities to respond to an ongoing deadly action or active shooter situation. The goals were to lockdown, unlock and evacuate approximately 1300 students, teachers and staff in accord with the school emergency response plan.

The process of preparation for crisis is an ongoing process that involves planning and training. In Walpole we are lucky enough to have folks who see the value in preparation. This preparation involved developing school plans and developing lockdown procedures, lockdown procedures that were taught and tested in small scale drills, much like fire drills. These drills had been conducted by the schools and the police department alone for a couple of years and we all decided it was time about a year and a half ago to test plan in a more realistic way to test our readiness as a town in our efforts to keep safe schools.

The complexity in implementing the exercise came in the form of arranging or rearranging schedules for meetings and tabletop exercises and establishing dates for tabletop exercise and the date for the drill. Even in a small town such as Walpole, those people and departments within and working for the town have jobs to do to keep the town’s services available and the general day to day operations of the town running in a fluid way. We adapted and changed dates several times due to scheduling conflicts. Training time was scarce and little time or money was available for conducting full scale preparation as any of us in the public safety sector would like, so we took advantage of the little time we had for robust dialog when we could in person or through emails. It also took individuals taking advantage of white space in their days to take on roles in preparation.

We had not ever worked the emergency response plan in a collaborative way fully and the drill date was fast approaching October 28th as I went off to Quantico for the October 14 and 15 Boyd and Beyond conference and had the opportunity to hear and participate in Dr. Terry Barnhart’s Critical Question Mapping methodology. I was a little nervous or apprehensive we may not be ready for the full scale exercise because it takes all these departments, all these individuals working autonomously yet collaboratively to effectively pull it off.

The learning that took place at the conference was powerful; it always is at the Boyd and Beyond. The pools of folks who attend each year are at the top of their disciplines and come from many. Military, science, homeland security, the corporate world, university students studying strategy, historians and law enforcement are all represented. This is important to mention because, the learning that takes place at the conference is because of this interaction amongst various view points. The CQM methodology exercised this year through Dr. Barnhart’s facilitation brought this interaction and hence creativity out very strongly in my mind as a powerful tool we can use, and here’s why. In the exercise, all of us, from all of our disciplines, were asked to put up a robust set of questions that we would have to answer, to change the culture of a large organization. We all come from different organizations of different sizes and flavors, but here’s the kicker. We could all participate. We could all provide insightful questions about the problem, and we could all talk, engage and interact with everyone else in the room. There were no functional or organizational barriers to solving this big, difficult, strategic problem

I decided to use the CQM methodology in our effort to conduct a tabletop exercise on Monday October 24th four days prior to the exercise in preparation for Friday. This date was already planned as a training day, with 3 hours available on the schedule. There were 21 department heads who participated in the tabletop exercise from the various departments mentioned above.

The strategic problem “Ongoing Deadly Action Taking Place on School Grounds” and our goals for the exercise were established; “collaboratively execute the school violence response plan, “lockdown the school, stop the ongoing threat, safely unlock and evacuate the school, and prepare for the aftermath.” Now write your critical questions you need to have answered to solve this problem on the post it notes provided you need to reach our goals, and post them upon the wall somewhere for all to see, you have 20 minutes, begin. These were the only directions given, which is how the CQM method is done. The questions and answers come from those who are going to implement the plan, not from an instructor who acts as a facilitator only, helping to guide the process of learning.

The initial 20 minutes cops, DPW workers, school staff, fireman herded in their circles, jotted down their questions and posted them on the wall. When the 20 minutes ended we had numerous questions to explore but they were all separated by department. I asked one question, “do you all work alone in your efforts to solve this problem?” The answer was immediately “no we do not.” “How do we fix this in a way that helps us collaborate in our efforts?” was my next question. “You have 20 minutes to come up with this solution.” All immediately began to transfer their post it notes of questions in a centralized area, but something very interesting happened and happened very fast. The room got loud as conversations between departments began to take shape as they worked posting stickles on the wall as they shaped and reshaped the flow of the how they felt the exercise would unfold.

The interaction that took place was quite frankly exciting to observe as cops, teachers, DPW workers, and fireman all worked together in a unified way. Quite frankly I had never in my 26 years seen this happen so fast. Once they had a flow state posted, they all answered the questions. In all there were 68 critical questions posted and answered in about a two hour period. Comments such as “I think we are ready now.” This was a great way of learning and preparing for the exercise.” I feel confident now in the decisions we have to make.” “I feel like we can do this.” The next day I had a DPW worker seek me out at the station for two reasons one was he came up with a better traffic plan for the exercise than the one I had come up with in the plan, and it was better. The second comment was; “we DPW guys thought you were crazy having us write questions on post it notes at first but, by the time we were through we were all saying…this was a great way of solving problems. We can use this idea for other projects we have.”

The CQM methodology was powerful to see at work as individual questions through interaction among several town departments grew into collective knowledge and innovation as they solved the strategic problem of an active shooter on school grounds.

The key after the table top was to observe how successful the full scale exercise would be handled. We did conduct the exercise on Friday October 28th and the goals set by the group were effectively reached, along with new lessons being learned. I was impressed with how everyone worked towards common goals, in accord with the intent of the exercise and did so in a fluid and cohesive way.

I believe the CQM methodology help to build confidence and mutual trust among the different departments and agencies represented and all believed it greatly helped them prepare for the full scale exercise in which they locked down, stopped the ongoing threat, unlocked and evacuated over 1300 people.

We used the CQM process during the after action review, post exercise to test its relevance. The CQM process of reviewing the questions asked, showed we did not only answer the questions but we also discovered more questions. The answers to these new questions will only help to better prepare us for dynamic crisis situations and keeping schools safe. CQM is clearly a highly adaptive process that has numerous uses and multiple approaches to solving complex problems.

Key attributes I contribute to creating and nurturing adaptability that leads to effectiveness in crisis situations is “strength of character” and a “willingness to continually learn.” These attributes are keys to developing adaptability and in questioning convictions with the intent of discovering a higher level of EXCELLENCE in performance individually and organizationally. We must pursue that purpose, so we continually evolve in our planning, strategy and tactics, so operations in unconventional crisis run smoother and more effectively. CQM is a methodology that will help us in accomplishing this goal.

Critical Question Mapping as Dr. Barnhart states we should “drive strategy development through a question format (insist on it!).” In my view is this is great advice as any situation we respond to has numerous unanswered question we must find the answers to if we are to solve the problems effectively and safely.

If anyone has any questions on how CQM works please do not hesitate to contact me.

Stay Oriented!

Fred

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  • AOW Card Deck Lesson 5: Sheath Your Sword
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  • 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
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  • Book Review: The Rite of Return: Coming Back From Duty Induced PTSD
  • Restoring the Wounded Spirit
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  • How Do Adaptive Leaders Think?
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  • Chapter 1 Review of “Gung Ho! The Corps’ Most Progressive Tradition
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  • Tactical IQ: Using “SURPRISE” to Set the Tempo of Confrontation.
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  • 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
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  • Tactical IQ: Developing “Fingertip Feel” Shaping and Reshaping Dynamic Encounters To Gain the Advantage
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  • Fighting Complacency Reminder: Nothing We Do is Routine, NOTHING!!!
  • Street Level Red Teaming: The Cop Killer
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  • 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
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  • Tactical IQ: Fast Transients Maneuvers and Manipulating the Tempo of Conflict
  • Leadership By Wandering Around!
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  • Maintaining Mental Calmness and Not Losing Our Cool
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  • Tactical IQ: Interaction, Insight and Imagination, and Initiative…The Building Blocks of Police Operational Art
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  • “Sharpening Our Orientation” and Reducing Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
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  • Gary Klein – Cognitive Psychologist, Studies Decision Making in Crisis on The Break It Down Show..Outstanding Episode
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  • Recommended Reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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  • LYNCH & KENNEY: react to clips of LtGen Van Riper’s “On Discipline” interview on All Marine Radio
  • Outstanding Interview: ON DISCIPLINE: LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (ret)
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  • On Policing a Free Society with Fred Leland A New Podcast Coming in 2019
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  • Utilizing The Case Method: Some articles by Bruce Gudmundsson to Help Shed Some Light on How Too
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  • 15 Tips to Remember when Promoting a Growth Mindset in the Classroom: A Guest Post from USA Test Prep
  • New Edition of Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing by Grant Hammond
  • My Book Review: On Tactics by B. A. Friedman
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  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 2: Don’t Just Be a Reactor..Be a Shaper Too!
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 1
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  • The Grid: Is There Better Ways to Approach Police Interactions?
  • Teaching Officers How to Think verses Telling Them What To Think
  • Develop a Philosophy and Understanding of Crime Fighting and Problem Solving That Considers Complexities of Policing
  • Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Book Review
  • Thinking Leaders, Leading Thinking People is the Adaptive Leaders Focus
  • Take Policing From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
  • Are You Serving Those You Lead?
  • Vehicle Stops Strategies and Tactics: Being Safe and Effective Is About Options, Not Best Practices
  • Teaching Adaptability and Making Marines More Effective Trainers
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Better Understanding Policing and Why it Matters
  • The Last 100 Yards Series: High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle or Maneuver: How Are Your Tactics, Officer?
  • Police officers I beg you to please run out and buy this book! What a great tactical resource!
  • Second Episode in This Podcast Series with Complete Emergency Managment: Leadership in Public Safety
  • Podcast: I sit down with George Whitney of Complete EM and discuss: Active Shooters and After Actions
  • Sir Robert Peels, Nine Key Principles of Policing: Fair and Impartial Policing Defined Back In 1829!
  • Herman Goldstein, Fundamental Objectives of Policing: Are They Relevant Today? I Say Yes!
  • Shaping and Adapting: Using the Environment (The Last Hundred Yards) To Unlock the Power of Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop
  • Informative Fair and Impartial Podcast: Do the legal rules for using deadly force, still make sense?
  • Crisis Intervention Teams & Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness: Evolving Tactics That Make a Difference
  • How Does The Last Hundred Yards, Enhance Tactical Responses to Crises?
  • Complacency and False Sense of Urgency: Why We Fail to Take Advantage of The Last Hundred Yards?
  • The Last Hundred Yards: Operate On Blind Luck or Win Consistently?
  • My Good Friend Coach Kevin Kearns talks with 5th & 6th graders about Vision
  • Keeping The Peace in a Free Society Let Us Not Forget Why We Do What We Do
  • How Do We Better Assess and Grade Decision Making and Adaptability in Those We Train?
  • Types of Cases
  • Report: Deadly Calls And Fatal Encounters
  • Developing Individuals with the Ability to Work Together Solving Real World Problems
  • Five-Year Study of Police Officer Deaths: RoboCops or Guardians?
  • The role of humility in the Socratic method by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • Keeping the Peace
  • Experiential Learning Defined
  • How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn
  • Reducing Violence is About Not Grabbing a Gun
  • Boston PD & Boston Red Sox: Full Scale Complex Operating Environment Training Exercise
  • Scouts in Contact Tactical Vignettes for Cavalry Leaders A Book of Tactical Decison Exercises for Cavalry Leaders
  • What is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
  • Sound of Silence A Tribute to Policing and All Those Who Serve The Homeland
  • Problem-Oriented Policing: Where Social Work Meets Law Enforcement
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Altering Public Expectations
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions Regarding Police Fuction
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves…
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society
  • Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
  • 8 Tips to Keep Your Home Wireless Network Secure From Hackers: a guest post from Wichly Cazeau
  • John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Part 3
  • Engaging The Community and Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
  • The Pre-Class Preparation Pyramid By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • We All Lose When it’s Us Verses Them!
  • Facilatating The Adaptive Leader Program at The Army ROTC Leadership Conference at Harvard University
  • A Break It Down Show Pod Cast: Paying Criminal Not to Commit Crimes or is There Something More to The Story?
  • Harvard ROTC Leadership Conference
  • A Discourse on Policing a Free Society
  • We Made the Mandatory Reading for the US Army MPs
  • Patterns of Conflict Pt 2
  • Hand in Hand Project, a new initiative promoting dialogue and interaction between local police officers and young people
  • How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
  • Why Adaptability Trumps Hierarchy?
  • Military Reform Through Education: From The Straus Military Reform Project, Something We In Policing Can Learn From
  • In Building Trust, Actions…Speak Louder Than Words!
  • Somewhere Along the Way
  • Taking It Personally
  • The Facts of the Case By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • J.J. DID TIE BUCKLE Traits I live By
  • On Fitness: Learn from my weakness, my mistakes, and my bad habits
  • Don’t Do It Alone: Developing a Shared Sense of Destiny Requires We’re all on the Same Sheet of Music
  • Recommended Reading List From The California Association of Tactical Officers
  • Values For A New Millennium: A Book That Will Help Bridge the Gap Between People and The Police
  • Teaching Adaptability…and Firearms Training
  • Simon Sinek: Why Reciprocity Improves Mentor Mentee Relationships
  • Felix Nader Discusses The Value of Workplace Violence Prevention
  • Breaking Down Police Work and How To Win at Low Cost: Part 2 Podcast Break It Down Show
  • Boyd: Adapting Isn’t Good Enough
  • Simon Sinek on the responsibility that leaders have to create environments where people are more productive,and inspired
  • The Hunting Story – the meaning of human equality
  • Ethical Warriors with Jack Hoban
  • Emotional Intelligence: Re-Thinking Police Community Relations by Mark Bond
  • Approaching LE with the ‘What’s important now?’ perspective
  • Staying in control when a suspect is aggressive
  • 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
  • Warriors vs. Praetorian Guard – Which Mindset Fits You Best? By Mike Ox
  • ITOA News: Articles By John Farnam, Patrick Van Horne, Jeff Chudwin, Don Vandergriff, Yours Truly and More
  • The importance of mindset in policing with Chip Huth
  • A Discussion on Police Work and How to Win At Low Cost, Connecting The People and Police Gap
  • Be Passionate, Back Up and Empower Your People, and You Will Get The Culture Right
  • Why Are Shared Visions So Important?
  • Technical Skill as a Component of Creativity by Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • I Am Spartacus…No I Am Spartacus: Is Your Police Organization United?
  • The Demand For Autodidacts – The Self-Taught in an Age of Shrinking Budgets by Patrick Van Horne
  • It’s How You Say What You Saw by Patrick Van Horne
  • The Path of Don Vandergriff: A Discussion On Leadership, Learning organizations and Adaptability
  • The Newhall Incident: Failure, Adaptation and Success…Or Lost Opportunity? Published in the latest ITOA News
  • NYPD’s New Strategy for Dealing with Stressful Interactions, Absurd or Realistic?
  • The Mind Can Be Convinced But The Heart Must Be Won
  • Imagine a Police Culture Where People Wake Up Every Day Inspired to Go to Work
  • Open Letter to President’s Task Force on Policing by Louis Hayes
  • The Blame Game: Who @#$%ed This Up?
  • Breaking Down the Stranglehold of Formality
  • Boyd and Beyond: From Marine Corps University to FBI National Academy Boyd’ Ideas are Expanding
  • From The Art of Manliness: John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
  • Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
  • The Case Method Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marine Education by Captain Paul Tremblay Jr USMC
  • Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand…
  • Using Official Histories as Quarries for Case Materials By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Left of Bang By Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
  • The Most Dangerous Weapon in Law Enforcement by Brian Willis
  • Sizing Up Situations Is A Skill, We Need To Develop
  • Change the Culture If I could Only Change One Thing by Don Vandergriff
  • The Five Learning Disciplines
  • Using Complete Stories in Decision Forcing Cases by Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis
  • Tactical Decision Games, Obscure Information and Generating New Ways to Thrive in the Climate of Chaos and Uncertainty
  • Calling on Cops in Class: An Anecdote for Developing Character, Confidence and Sound Tactical Decision Makers
  • Solving Tactical Dilemmas with Indirect Experience (Education & Training) and White Castle Cases
  • Ugly Police Force: Misunderstandings of Law & Human Factors by Lou Hayes
  • Design and Facilitate, Decision Making Exercises Using The Sandwich Metaphor
  • Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare by H. John Poole
  • Developing Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Decision Makers with Case Study’s “Washington’s Crossing”
  • FBI Report: A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States
  • The Art of Manliness Discusses…The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop
  • Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
  • A Police Officers thoughts on the “Militarization” of our police forces.
  • Cops With War Toys: Militarizing police is the worst way to fight crime.
  • “Just the facts Ma’am”
  • Re-Imagine the Way We Lead!
  • A Milestone in Boydian Theory at the Tactical Level
  • CASE STUDY: Ferguson Missouri shooting incident and aftermath by Louis Hayes
  • What is Leadership?
  • Use of Force Investigations: a Manual for Law Enforcement
  • Do You Know How to Get Fullfillment?
  • How Great Leaders Inspire Action
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
  • Adaptive Leadership Handbook, Reviewed [by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]
  • Have We Not Learned Anything From History? Don Vandergriff’s Book Review on American Spartan
  • How Do We Inspire Action?
  • Book Review: Rubicon: The Poetry of War
  • Book Review: American Spartan
  • Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for WWII
  • What are the Basics? Developing for Mission Command by Donald E. Vandergriff
  • IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL
  • Adaptive Leadership By Charles “Sid” Heal and John R. Engbeck
  • Why good leaders make you feel safe
  • Guardians vs. Warriors: What it Takes to Win at Low Cost
  • After Action Review on The Christopher Dorner Incident
  • Adaptive Leader Program
  • Crisis Meta-Leadership Lessons From the Boston Marathon Bombings Response: The Ingenuity of Swarm Intelligence
  • Outstanding piece! The Myth of Mission Command by Don Vandergriff
  • Cops or Soldiers?
  • Situational Assessments: Being Mindful of What’s Important Now!
  • Convinced or Committed?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 For Policing 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
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  • Introduction to Scenario Learning: Guest Post Series with Michael Barr
  • Auftragstaktik in One Simple Diagram by Chet Richards
  • “Leaders Are Teachers”: Great Insights on Leadership and Developing Your People from The Mentorship Forum
  • Great Review Over at the The Mentorship Forum of My Favorite Resource on Developing Adaptability “Raising The Bar”
  • Rethinking the Traditional Teacher-Student Relationship in Conflicts
  • Command and Control During a Disaster: Podcast
  • The Evolving Warfighter Sits Down with Don Vandergriff and Talks Mission Command
  • Developing and Preparing Cops for the Adaptive Challenges of The Street: Instructors Roundtable Podcast Episode
  • Unreflective Speed of Action…Do You Think Its Time Policing Reflects on the Tactical Influence of Time?
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Don Vandergriff – Mission Command, Trusting Your People, To Win
  • I See You…Back Up! On The Call to Win in Crisis and in the Aftermath to Win in Life
  • Technological Negation of Human Sexual Dimorphism: A Guest Post by Franklin C. Annis, EdD
  • Guest Post Home Security Guide from Bank Rate
  • Commonwealth Police Legacy Program of Instruction: Sound Decision Making for Cops
  • Outstanding In Your Face and Much Needed Book Policing and It’s Leaders Can Learn From
  • THE TRUTH BEHIND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS: Great Research Every Cop and Every Citizen Should Read.
  • Thought on Discipline: A Great Podcast Series from All Marine Radio, Every Police Leader Should Listen To
  • Gary Klein – Cognitive Psychologist, Studies Decision Making in Crisis on The Break It Down Show..Outstanding Episode
  • Tactical Decision Making Facilitation Guide Maj McBreen: The Lessons Transfer to Police Instruction as Well
  • 4th Generation Warfare Interview and Yes There Are Lessons for Policing
  • Keys to Training Excellence: Evidence Based Research Policing Can Use
  • Adopting Mission Command: Developing Leaders for a Superior Command Culture by Don Vandergriff
  • Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude: Book Review
  • PODCAST: Tactical Decision Games with Bruce Gudmundsson and Don Vandergriff
  • Podcast: Human Factors and Officer-Involved Shootings
  • Donald Robertson – Stoicism and Thinking Like a Roman Emperor
  • Dr John Sullivan and MAJ John Spencer – The Complexity of Modern Urban War
  • Great Podcast: The Courageous Police Leader – Combating Cowards, Chaos, and Lies
  • Recommended Reading: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  • Another Approach to Tactics Guest Post by Bert DuVernay
  • LYNCH & KENNEY: react to clips of LtGen Van Riper’s “On Discipline” interview on All Marine Radio
  • Outstanding Interview: ON DISCIPLINE: LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (ret)
  • The Learning Insurgency: It’s an Evolution, not a Revolution By Donald E. Vandergriff
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 3: Toxic Bosses
  • On Policing a Free Society Episode 2: Repairing Dysfunction in Police Organizations
  • On Policing a Free Society Podcast: Episode 1 Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Impact On Response
  • On Policing a Free Society with Fred Leland A New Podcast Coming in 2019
  • Making Police Training Stick…and Learning How to Learn
  • A New Conception of War: John Boyd The U.S. Marines and Maneuver Warfare
  • Utilizing The Case Method: Some articles by Bruce Gudmundsson to Help Shed Some Light on How Too
  • Use of Force Policy: Dispelling the Myths by Lexipol
  • How to Make a Small Unit Decision Forcing Cases by Bruce Gudmundsson
  • Facilitating Learning a Hybrid Of Methods to Effective Police Officer Development
  • Why The OODA Loop Is Forever By Dan Grazier
  • 15 Tips to Remember when Promoting a Growth Mindset in the Classroom: A Guest Post from USA Test Prep
  • New Edition of Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing by Grant Hammond
  • My Book Review: On Tactics by B. A. Friedman
  • Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone:
  • On Tactics: An Interview with B.A. Friedman
  • Podcast Part 2 from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Podcast from Professional Military Education: John Boyd, Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication-1
  • Walk,Sacrafice, Work …Always Hungry Never Satified! What it Takes to Fight Complacency
  • The Ten Deadly Errors, Plus…Failure to Learn, Failure to Anticipate and Failure to Adapt
  • Turning Tragedy into Victory…We Must Start APPLYING LESSONS LEARNED
  • Police Responses Demands Constant and Repeated Action…Throughout the Tactical Encounter
  • All Police Actions Take Place in an Atmosphere of Uncertainty
  • Adapt or Die: The Call for Police Reform…Is It Reasonable or Necessary?
  • Force Science Assesses Proposed “Necessary” Deadly Force Standard
  • Special Tactics Online Course Intro
  • LESC is Honored to be Part of Special Tactics New Online Training Academy and Full-Featured, Professional Networking Site
  • Leading Discussions and Facilitating Better Training Outcomes
  • Police Leaders Mentoring and Coaching Their People: the Cornerstone to Top Performance in Crises
  • Research: Adaptive Skill as the Conditio Sine Qua Non of Expertise
  • Developing Adaptive Expertise: A Synthesis of Literature and Implications for Training
  • How the Germans Defined Auftragstaktik: What Mission Command is – AND – is Not by Don Vandergriff
  • Avioding Hostilities is the Goal But Sometimes to Gain The Advantage Reasonable Force Must Be Used
  • Navigating Chaos: How to Find Certainty in Uncertain Situations
  • The Protector Ethic: Morality, Virtue, and Ethics in the Martial Way
  • Police Ethos:The Warrior and Guardian Mindset Are They Not One In the Same?
  • Neighborhood Watch is Homeland Security at the Most Local Level
  • Developing Police Sergeants: Getting the Outcomes and Measures of Effectiveness Right
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 3: Disrupting an Adversary Using Soft and Hard Tactics
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 2: Don’t Just Be a Reactor..Be a Shaper Too!
  • Col John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Expanded to Policing Part 1
  • Smart Tactics Takes Thinking Police Leaders…Leading Thinking Cops
  • Wrestling With Delayed and Immediate Entry, Solo and Team Tactics…Are We Really Expecting All to Go as Rehersed?
  • Guardian Joe: How Less Force Helps The Warrior
  • Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforement Fatalities Between 2010-2016
  • Professional Reading and Development: It Doesn’t Give All the Answers, But It Lights What Is Often a Uncertain Path Ahead
  • What Are The Force Multipliers That Allow Police Organizations to Operate at Rapid OODA Loop Tempos?
  • Why Frontline Employees Should Make All Decisions:Lessons Police Can Learn From The Corporate Rebels
  • What was Boyd Thinking and…What Can Policing Learn From It?
  • Proper Mindset, Situational Awareness, Skill Proficiency and Physical Fitness: Force Multipliers of Great Value to Police
  • Recognizing The Signs and Signals That Lead To Violent Acts At Our Schools and Making Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Them
  • Adaptive Leader Program: Developing Thinking Leaders Who Lead Thinking Officers
  • What Are Mission-Type Orders and How Do They Influence a More Effective Crisis Response?
  • Tactics Are They More High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle the Devil Be Damned or Maneuver and Boyd Cycling an Adversary?
  • There Are No School Solutions, Formulas or Recipes to School Shootings, so How Can We Develop Better Courses of Action?
  • Great Break It Down Show Focus on School Shootings
  • Developing Critically Needed Leadership: A Podcast on Mission Command Building Trust and Cohesion
  • Powerful Facilitation: Two Critical Approaches
  • Powerful Facilitation: Three Critical Competencies
  • STARTING AND GROWING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
  • Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty In Your Organization a Book Review
  • The Case Method In Developing Police: “Cold Calling” Will Have to Be Unambiguous
  • The Biggest Obstacle to Tactical Progress… and How to Beat It
  • Pete’s Combat Wish List Pt 2: Mental Models, Mistakes, Reflection and Learning on the Fly
  • Pete’s Wish List for Combat Warriors. Perhaps Some Lessons for Poliicng as Well?
  • What Affect Does the Human Dimension and Human Bias Have on Policing?
  • What virtues are the most essential for a warrior to live by in order to prepare for, protect against and prevent violence? 
  • Exploring Criminal Justice Careers Check Out the Community for Accredited Online Schools
  • A Great Break It Down Show Podcast on Interview and Interrogation: A Candid Straight Up Discussion
  • Experiential Learning a Big Part of The New Recruit Officer Course In Massachusetts: Looks Promising!
  • Run Out and Buy: Anatomy of a Warrior: The 7 Virtues All Warriors Must Live by to Successfully Protect and Serve
  • Devising Solutions to Complex Police Problems: How Can We Get Better?
  • Podcast with the Break It Down Show A Candid Discussion on Policing a Free Society, Mission Command and More
  • Understanding Problems Range in Complexity and Designing Police Operations
  • When it comes to Police Training, When is Good Enough, Not Good Enough?
  • On The Job Training and Deliberately Framing Experience
  • Police Officer Discretion…and Focusing Our Efforts on Better Outcomes
  • Strength of Character: The Foundation of Working Together and Getting Things Done
  • A free chapter from our new book now available on Amazon
  • A Major Problem We Must Confront as Police Trainers and Students: How To Improve Performance?
  • MISSION COMMAND THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND WHY An Anthology
  • Conflict and Crisis are Full of Friction: The Force That Makes the Apparently Easy so Difficult
  • PODCAST: Don Vandergriff on Military Personnel Reform: The Ideas Discussed Can (SHOULD) be Adapted to Policing As Well!
  • Fire Nobody! by Dave Smith
  • Teaching United States Marine Instructors New Tricks: Developing Adaptability Through Experiential Learning
  • The Why was born out of pain
  • Inspiring People to Lifelong Learning & Impacting Their Ability to Make Sound Decisions 
  • We Can’t Just Use the Same Mental Recipes Over and Over Again: In Police Training We Must Challenge The Prevailing Mindset
  • Reflection Leads to Deeper Learning…Put Each Day Up For Review
  • We Must Train and Educate Within an Uncertain Environment to Prepare to Adapt
  • Defining Policing ‘s Training & Education Challenge…Some Ideas On Achieving High Levels of Professionalism
  • Defensive Tactics for Today’s Law Enforcement
  • Uploading John Boyd: The Legend Delivering His Opus is Online…and is as Relevant as Ever
  • Make Many Mistakes and Learn
  • Is Your Purpose in Life Based on Self Awareness and Strength of Character or Are You Just Following the Crowd?
  • An Officer’s Principal Weapon is His Mind: Professional Development In Policing
  • Outstanding Manual: Law Enforcement Close Quarter Battle: Urban Tactics for Individuals, Teams and Tactical Units
  • The Art of Police Training is the Ability to Move Officers Through the Fog and Complexity of Human Interaction
  • Brian Willis Interviews Yours Truly on Teaching Adaptive Leadership
  • The Police Leader’s True Work: Train Them, Trust Them, Let Them Do Their Job
  • Sir William Slim on His Leadership Motto: No Details, No Paper, And No Regrets
  • The Grid: Is There Better Ways to Approach Police Interactions?
  • Teaching Officers How to Think verses Telling Them What To Think
  • Develop a Philosophy and Understanding of Crime Fighting and Problem Solving That Considers Complexities of Policing
  • Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Book Review
  • Thinking Leaders, Leading Thinking People is the Adaptive Leaders Focus
  • Take Policing From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture
  • Are You Serving Those You Lead?
  • Vehicle Stops Strategies and Tactics: Being Safe and Effective Is About Options, Not Best Practices
  • Teaching Adaptability and Making Marines More Effective Trainers
  • Break It Down Show Podcast: Better Understanding Policing and Why it Matters
  • The Last 100 Yards Series: High Diddle, Diddle Straight Up the Middle or Maneuver: How Are Your Tactics, Officer?
  • Police officers I beg you to please run out and buy this book! What a great tactical resource!
  • Second Episode in This Podcast Series with Complete Emergency Managment: Leadership in Public Safety
  • Podcast: I sit down with George Whitney of Complete EM and discuss: Active Shooters and After Actions
  • Sir Robert Peels, Nine Key Principles of Policing: Fair and Impartial Policing Defined Back In 1829!
  • Herman Goldstein, Fundamental Objectives of Policing: Are They Relevant Today? I Say Yes!
  • Shaping and Adapting: Using the Environment (The Last Hundred Yards) To Unlock the Power of Colonel John Boyd’s OODA Loop
  • Informative Fair and Impartial Podcast: Do the legal rules for using deadly force, still make sense?
  • Crisis Intervention Teams & Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness: Evolving Tactics That Make a Difference
  • How Does The Last Hundred Yards, Enhance Tactical Responses to Crises?
  • Complacency and False Sense of Urgency: Why We Fail to Take Advantage of The Last Hundred Yards?
  • The Last Hundred Yards: Operate On Blind Luck or Win Consistently?
  • My Good Friend Coach Kevin Kearns talks with 5th & 6th graders about Vision
  • Keeping The Peace in a Free Society Let Us Not Forget Why We Do What We Do
  • How Do We Better Assess and Grade Decision Making and Adaptability in Those We Train?
  • Types of Cases
  • Report: Deadly Calls And Fatal Encounters
  • Developing Individuals with the Ability to Work Together Solving Real World Problems
  • Five-Year Study of Police Officer Deaths: RoboCops or Guardians?
  • The role of humility in the Socratic method by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • Keeping the Peace
  • Experiential Learning Defined
  • How We Learn Versus How We Think We Learn
  • Reducing Violence is About Not Grabbing a Gun
  • Boston PD & Boston Red Sox: Full Scale Complex Operating Environment Training Exercise
  • Scouts in Contact Tactical Vignettes for Cavalry Leaders A Book of Tactical Decison Exercises for Cavalry Leaders
  • What is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
  • Sound of Silence A Tribute to Policing and All Those Who Serve The Homeland
  • Problem-Oriented Policing: Where Social Work Meets Law Enforcement
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Altering Public Expectations
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions Regarding Police Fuction
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves…
  • Thoughts on Policing a Free Society
  • Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
  • 8 Tips to Keep Your Home Wireless Network Secure From Hackers: a guest post from Wichly Cazeau
  • John Boyd’s Patterns of Conflict Part 3
  • Engaging The Community and Making Meaningful and Lasting Change
  • The Pre-Class Preparation Pyramid By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • We All Lose When it’s Us Verses Them!
  • Facilatating The Adaptive Leader Program at The Army ROTC Leadership Conference at Harvard University
  • A Break It Down Show Pod Cast: Paying Criminal Not to Commit Crimes or is There Something More to The Story?
  • Harvard ROTC Leadership Conference
  • A Discourse on Policing a Free Society
  • We Made the Mandatory Reading for the US Army MPs
  • Patterns of Conflict Pt 2
  • Hand in Hand Project, a new initiative promoting dialogue and interaction between local police officers and young people
  • How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
  • Why Adaptability Trumps Hierarchy?
  • Military Reform Through Education: From The Straus Military Reform Project, Something We In Policing Can Learn From
  • In Building Trust, Actions…Speak Louder Than Words!
  • Somewhere Along the Way
  • Taking It Personally
  • The Facts of the Case By Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
  • J.J. DID TIE BUCKLE Traits I live By
  • On Fitness: Learn from my weakness, my mistakes, and my bad habits
  • Don’t Do It Alone: Developing a Shared Sense of Destiny Requires We’re all on the Same Sheet of Music
  • Recommended Reading List From The California Association of Tactical Officers
  • Values For A New Millennium: A Book That Will Help Bridge the Gap Between People and The Police
  • Teaching Adaptability…and Firearms Training
  • Simon Sinek: Why Reciprocity Improves Mentor Mentee Relationships
  • Felix Nader Discusses The Value of Workplace Violence Prevention
  • Breaking Down Police Work and How To Win at Low Cost: Part 2 Podcast Break It Down Show
  • Boyd: Adapting Isn’t Good Enough
  • Simon Sinek on the responsibility that leaders have to create environments where people are more productive,and inspired
  • The Hunting Story – the meaning of human equality
  • Ethical Warriors with Jack Hoban
  • Emotional Intelligence: Re-Thinking Police Community Relations by Mark Bond
  • Approaching LE with the ‘What’s important now?’ perspective
  • Staying in control when a suspect is aggressive
  • 10 Overlooked Truths About Taking Action
  • Warriors vs. Praetorian Guard – Which Mindset Fits You Best? By Mike Ox
  • ITOA News: Articles By John Farnam, Patrick Van Horne, Jeff Chudwin, Don Vandergriff, Yours Truly and More
  • The importance of mindset in policing with Chip Huth
  • A Discussion on Police Work and How to Win At Low Cost, Connecting The People and Police Gap
  • Be Passionate, Back Up and Empower Your People, and You Will Get The Culture Right
  • Why Are Shared Visions So Important?
  • Technical Skill as a Component of Creativity by Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • I Am Spartacus…No I Am Spartacus: Is Your Police Organization United?
  • The Demand For Autodidacts – The Self-Taught in an Age of Shrinking Budgets by Patrick Van Horne
  • It’s How You Say What You Saw by Patrick Van Horne
  • The Path of Don Vandergriff: A Discussion On Leadership, Learning organizations and Adaptability
  • The Newhall Incident: Failure, Adaptation and Success…Or Lost Opportunity? Published in the latest ITOA News
  • NYPD’s New Strategy for Dealing with Stressful Interactions, Absurd or Realistic?
  • The Mind Can Be Convinced But The Heart Must Be Won
  • Imagine a Police Culture Where People Wake Up Every Day Inspired to Go to Work
  • Open Letter to President’s Task Force on Policing by Louis Hayes
  • The Blame Game: Who @#$%ed This Up?
  • Breaking Down the Stranglehold of Formality
  • Boyd and Beyond: From Marine Corps University to FBI National Academy Boyd’ Ideas are Expanding
  • From The Art of Manliness: John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
  • Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
  • The Case Method Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Marine Education by Captain Paul Tremblay Jr USMC
  • Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand…
  • Using Official Histories as Quarries for Case Materials By Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Left of Bang By Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
  • The Most Dangerous Weapon in Law Enforcement by Brian Willis
  • Sizing Up Situations Is A Skill, We Need To Develop
  • Change the Culture If I could Only Change One Thing by Don Vandergriff
  • The Five Learning Disciplines
  • Using Complete Stories in Decision Forcing Cases by Dr. Bruce I. Gudmundsson
  • Newhall Shooting: A Tactical Analysis
  • Tactical Decision Games, Obscure Information and Generating New Ways to Thrive in the Climate of Chaos and Uncertainty
  • Calling on Cops in Class: An Anecdote for Developing Character, Confidence and Sound Tactical Decision Makers
  • Solving Tactical Dilemmas with Indirect Experience (Education & Training) and White Castle Cases
  • Ugly Police Force: Misunderstandings of Law & Human Factors by Lou Hayes
  • Design and Facilitate, Decision Making Exercises Using The Sandwich Metaphor
  • Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare by H. John Poole
  • Developing Teamwork, Leadership Skills and Decision Makers with Case Study’s “Washington’s Crossing”
  • FBI Report: A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States
  • The Art of Manliness Discusses…The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop
  • Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee
  • A Police Officers thoughts on the “Militarization” of our police forces.
  • Cops With War Toys: Militarizing police is the worst way to fight crime.
  • “Just the facts Ma’am”
  • Re-Imagine the Way We Lead!
  • A Milestone in Boydian Theory at the Tactical Level
  • CASE STUDY: Ferguson Missouri shooting incident and aftermath by Louis Hayes
  • What is Leadership?
  • Use of Force Investigations: a Manual for Law Enforcement
  • Do You Know How to Get Fullfillment?
  • How Great Leaders Inspire Action
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
  • Adaptive Leadership Handbook, Reviewed [by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]
  • Have We Not Learned Anything From History? Don Vandergriff’s Book Review on American Spartan
  • How Do We Inspire Action?
  • Book Review: Rubicon: The Poetry of War
  • Book Review: American Spartan
  • Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for WWII
  • What are the Basics? Developing for Mission Command by Donald E. Vandergriff
  • IN COMMAND AND OUT OF CONTROL
  • Adaptive Leadership By Charles “Sid” Heal and John R. Engbeck
  • Why good leaders make you feel safe
  • Guardians vs. Warriors: What it Takes to Win at Low Cost
  • After Action Review on The Christopher Dorner Incident
  • Adaptive Leader Program
  • Crisis Meta-Leadership Lessons From the Boston Marathon Bombings Response: The Ingenuity of Swarm Intelligence
  • Outstanding piece! The Myth of Mission Command by Don Vandergriff
  • Cops or Soldiers?
  • Situational Assessments: Being Mindful of What’s Important Now!
  • Convinced or Committed?
  • 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
  • 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?
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  • School Security: Sharing and Enhancing Best Practices
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  • Top 30 Criminal Justice Blogs of 2012 : LESC is Number 5!
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  • 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
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  • AOW Card Deck Lesson 5: Sheath Your Sword
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  • 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
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  • The Art of War: Sun Tzu Strategy Card Deck…Simple, Yet, Great Tool for Developing Strategic and Tactical Mindset
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  • On Vision
  • Book Review: The Rite of Return: Coming Back From Duty Induced PTSD
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  • How Do Adaptive Leaders Think?
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  • P1 Column: Patterns of behavior, officer safety, and ‘the rule of opposites’
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  • Book Review: Deadly Force: Firearms and American Law Enforcement, from the Wild West to the Streets of Today
  • The power of a handshake!
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  • Part 2: Train the brain: Using decision making critiques to leverage lessons learned: Published at Police One
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  • Book Review: Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
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  • What Those We Train Say About Us
  • Mastering Tactics with Decision Making Exercises and Critiques
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  • Mindset and Winning is About Much More than Words, Isn’t It?
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  • Emotion verses Strategy: Which Helps You Gain the Position of Advantage?
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  • Operation Bold Strike: Follow Me Training Support Package
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  • From OODA to AAADA ― A cycle for surviving violent police encounters
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  • Intersecting Ideas from Cross Disciplines…and Taking Boyd’s Theories Beyond
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  • JUSTIFIED: Are You Serious? The Balancing Act of Persuasion, and Reasonable Force
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  • Positive Leadership: Invest in People Building a Culture of Innovation
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  • Beyond Active Response: An Operational Concept for Police Counterterrorism Response
  • The Badge: Much More Than a Piece of Medal
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  • Tactical IQ: Fast Transients Maneuvers and Manipulating the Tempo of Conflict
  • Leadership By Wandering Around!
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  • Maintaining Mental Calmness and Not Losing Our Cool
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