Personal History And Biographical Sketch Of My Father

The same year Dr. Lee earned his Ph.D. he volunteered his service to help the Connecticut State Police to develop forensic laboratory services and introduce the Major Crime Squad concept for criminal investigation. 4 years after

He established police hiring standards and set up a crime lab, a records bureau, and a prevention unit concerned with juvenile delinquency. He formed a vice squad and put a stop to an epidemic of bank robberies and auto thefts. A prototype of today’s minimum-security prison farm was built to his specifications and also he did Dna research. Early work focused on things like ballistics, photography, hair samples, blood work, clothing fibers, paint chips, and tire treads while his experiences at the academy and the police field.

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower This quote from Eisenhower rings true on many levels. During my career in the military and the private sector, I have been subjected to many different styles of leadership, good or bad. In my leadership roles I have attained, I tried to model leadership abilities by taking bits and pieces of previous leader’s styles and forming them into my own model. This has proven to work well as dealing with people from all different walks of life there is no one size fits all approach. In writing this paper, I will detail my own leadership platform drawing from the course material and various other sources. The goal of this paper is to show a solid understanding of the course teachings and perhaps give the reader a new found perspective on leadership.

Leadership is, and always has been, a vital aspect of social and economic constructs. It is essential to the survival of societies, industries, organizations, and virtually any group of individuals that come together for a common purpose. However, leadership is difficult to define in a single, definitive sense. As such, theories of leadership, what constitutes a great leader, and how leaders are made have evolved constantly throughout history, and still continue to change today in hopes of improving upon our understanding of leadership, its importance, and how it can be most effective in modern organizational cultures.

Jack Enter began his law enforcement career in 1972. During which he has held many positions and has experienced many aspects of law enforcement. Enter rose thru the ranks and eventually held leadership positions. In 1984 he received a P.h. D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Huston State University. Enter is now retired from law enforcement and is training officers in leadership.

Gary Vannatta grew up in government housing with his single mother in Muncie, Indiana. He graduated from Southside High School and married his high school sweetheart. Gary went straight into the Army National Guard and served for 6 years. He has been married to his wife for 22 years. They raised two children who are now out of the house. Gary was hired by the Muncie Police Department in 2003. He is in his 14th year on the department and mostly served on midnight shifts. Gary went to crash reconstruction school and has 7 years in the Traffic Division.

     He ended up getting a job for a train company, selling snacks and waiting on passengers. When he went to Harlem, New York, he absolutely fell in love with the city. He ends up moving there, and gets a job at one of the bars, as a waiter. He was very interested in the art of hustling, and learned the tricks in this art. He got very good at this, and after a while he specialized in the dealings of narcotics. His brother Reginald ended up moving there to live with Malcolm. While he Reginald was out of town Malcolm got run out because Malcolm now worked for a gangster who

Family life- In the first couple of years he was married he supported him and his wife by running a sawmill. He then went back to detroit and started working at Edison Illuminating Company. Two years working there he was promoted to Chief Engineer

In the Leadership Challenge, 4th edition, it is Kouzes & Posner (2007) intention to present a road map for individuals to follow on their leadership journey. The authors stress that “leadership is not a gene and it’s not an inheritance.” Leadership they assert is “an identifiable set of skills and abilities that are available to all of us” (p. 23). They make clear that the “great person” theory of leadership is “plain wrong.” Leaders are our everyday heroes who do extraordinary things on a regular basis (p. 23).

Have you ever had a hero in your life, someone that is always there for you when you need them? I did, I called him "my dad." My dad was the only person that could make me laugh when I was feeling down. My dad was that person who had so much love for his family. My dad was the person who I could call and he'd always pick up. My dad was the person who would drop everything just to help me. My dad was the biggest hero in my life and to this day, still is.

He went to France to study law. Going to Paris assisted him in expanding his knowledge of crime detectives. Notably, learning about law helped him create his best series

The purpose of this paper is to reflect and make an analysis of the general strengths and weaknesses of a leader, provide recommendations, thoughts of overall performance to improve on this person’s leadership style in which practices and theories were utilized most effectively. Upon such, draw conclusions and provide an integration of this leadership practice into my own leadership practice. The accomplishment of this will be achieved by identifying several key practices from published documents surrounding and encompassing the leader, and comparing them to known relative concepts for a holistic view of the approach.

Leadership is a very broad topic; I never knew just how many different traits and skills that it takes to become an effective leader. Some of which I was familiar with, and others that I was not aware of, but now from taking this course, they all seem to be necessary for the role of leadership. The attached paper, will explain of some of the important theories and concepts that I thought were most important to be able to become and effective leader.

This paper is a critique of preceptor leadership methods. I will describe my current preceptor’s leadership style, giving an example of an observed valuable leadership strategy and why I found it to be successful. Shadowed by an example of an observed unsuccessful leadership strategy, how I responded, and a recommended strategy for the situation described. Ending with the type of leader I aspire to be in the future and my final thought regarding leadership.

Denis Waitley (1995) in his book, Empire of the Mind, encourages the reader to explore his/her beliefs on leadership. He asks the reader to be cognizant of how these beliefs manifest themselves in our lives, by stating, "What the mind harbors, the body manifests in some way" (p. 119). My beliefs about leadership are shaped by my experiences with my father. I have compiled a list of good leadership qualities from watching him interact with others over the years.