Being Effective At Work

Being Effective At Work

EPISODE 35 BeING EFFECTIVE AT WORK Bureaucracy and organizational politics This might sound a little boring, but let’s face it: Trying to get stuff done when you’re dealing with your bosses is a skill of its own. Some people are better at it than others. We discuss...

The People Ideas Hardware Paradox

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN People, Ideas, Hardware. Right? Back in the day, a fighter pilot named John Boyd investigated why American pilots fared so well against Korean pilots during the Korean War. The Korean’s were flying a MiG that had a higher...

Why go to a trauma center?

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN TRAUMA CENTERS: LOAD AND GO! Several times in my career, I’ve had interactions with other police officers that involved a discussion about where they would take a downed officer in an emergency. Before you ask why we...
Problem Solving and Tactics Development

Problem Solving and Tactics Development

EPISODE 24  PROBLEM SOLVING AND TACTICS DEVELOPMENT Tactics is chess, not checkers What is a tactic? How do we come up with them? The word tactical is one of those buzzwords we throw around, but what does it all mean? We are going to talk about how people apply...

Should kids talk to Strangers?

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN STRANGER DANGER! WHY “NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS” IS WRONG At Tactical Tangents, one of our goals is to take long-held ideas or beliefs that drive our decision making, and apply a layer of scrutiny to them in the...