Short, real-world leadership lessons for police and public safety. 5-minute episodes Sun, Tue and Thu. Hosted by Keith Clicque, police chief and still learning.
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He started as an oncology nurse. When he took over the Johns Hopkins Health System, he promised "10 years of everything I had." Now he's retiring right on schedule.
The promises nobody checks say the most about us.
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@HopkinsMedicine
"Be quick, but don't hurry." - Coach John Wooden @UCLAAthletics
Every critical call needs both. Move fast because time matters, but stay under control. Rushed decisions on scene are how good officers make mistakes they can't take back.
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A store clerk saw a school bus driver in medical distress, jumped aboard, and stopped the bus with 19 kids on it. No rank, no title. He led anyway.
Stories like this are why we're called Rank Doesn't Lead.
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"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them." - Gen. Colin Powell
Same goes for officers. If they quit bringing you problems, they've decided you can't help or won't care.
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One year ago today, I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. That year taught me more about leadership than any class. Presence beats policy, and sometimes the most caring thing a leader can do is send someone home.
Don't ignore symptoms. Get checked.
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Charleston's police chief is moving on, and how a department handles that handoff says a lot about its leadership. The best chiefs build their successors long before they leave. New 5-minute episode: rankdoesntlead.com/articles/…
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Teens at a night soccer game figured the cops were there to send them home. Two @SCPDHq officers hopped the fence and played instead. What gets recognized gets repeated.
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"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill
In policing, rank doesn't make anyone great. Owning the hard calls and taking care of your people does.
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Frustrated Cowboys fan here. But one tough loss came with a leadership lesson I didn't expect: the best leaders say "that starts with me" before they point anywhere else.
New 5-minute episode of Roll Call Leadership:
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