The Twelve Leadership Principles: Principle One

For the next twelve days, I will be posting daily one of the Twelve Principles of Quality Leadership followed by … More

Dreaming in Blue…

An old friend, Neil Heinen, got me thinking again about Madison, Wisc. — a city we both love dearly and with whom … More

Recently, Chief Mike Masterson of Boise wrote me about CompStat and lowering the crime rate: “In regards to the … More

Are there some leadership lessons you still need to learn? Take a look at the following from Forbes Magazine. They … More

Police Leaders: Now here’s your chance to see if you can lead a great police department further toward excellence — … More

One of the interesting fables I used I used in teaching leadership over the years was “Upstream-Downstream,” by Don Ardell (1975). … More

Last week, I wrote about Chief Chris Burbank who heads up the Salt Lake City Police Department. I described him … More

One of the most important of public decisions any elected or appointed official will ever make will be this one. … More

Note: The following article comes from a talk I gave in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1993 when I … More

THIRTY YEARS of research by leadership expert Dr. John Kotter have proven that 70% of all major change efforts in … More