Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line

A veteran police chief's hard-won lessons on leading yourself, leading others, and leading an organization...Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line is just that - lessons learned the old-fashioned way through trial and error, studying, hard work, and experience while on our nation's front lines to serve and protect. Dean Crisp spent decades leading people where a single misstep could cost a life. Faced with the daily challenges of a police chief, Dean threw himself into learning all he could about effective leadership and applying those lessons in his departments. He shares those hard-won lessons in this book.Dean lays the book out into three key sections that build on each other to help you become a better leader: Leading Yourself, Leading Others, Leading the Organization.