Your Leadership Toolbox

As a student of leadership, throughout your police career you will be expanding on your education, training, and experience, and building a "leadership toolbox."

The Personality Factor

Could Gandhi have been a great military general? Could Patton have led a nation with charm and persuasion? We will never know, but each of these great leaders, operating within the bounds of their own personality, reached a pinnacle of leadership in their time and in their element.

Make Yourself a Leader

No asset is more valuable in contemporary American policing than the ability to take charge and get others to follow.

The Good Follower

When everyone tries to be the leader at the same time, nothing gets done.

Seven Days in Baghdad

Smoke still rolled on the horizon and sporadic gunfire could still be heard around the city when I was ordered to report to the Palestine Meridian Hotel for reassignment. We were in the fabled city of Baghdad, and it was a chaotic mess.

Mark Stainbrook

Mark G. Stainbrook and T.D. De La Pena

Mark G. Stainbrook