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The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine | March 2017 Continued from previous page maker, Ike’s response was equally direct: “Be around people making decisions.” In other words, the best way to


develop as a leader is to “be around” those who lead. That being the case, what could be better than to “be around” history’s greatest leaders? That is the premise behind our staff rides, as well as our presentations on other great leaders that are included in sessions of other NJSACOP Executive Development courses.


We can emulate the successful leaders of the past, and learn from their mistakes as well. The study of the great leaders and decision makers of the past provides the raw material for wise decisions today and tomorrow, since all of us are prone to the same kinds of mistakes our predecessors made. Certainly no great leader is a copyist. Those who have slavishly copied earlier leaders nearly always fail. However, a leader might be isolated in time from others, but can achieve a unity with them by the responsibility they have shared. Most great leaders have, throughout history, studied the experience of those that came before, profiting by their mistakes, and capitalizing on their success.


It is a fair question to ask if even the study of great leaders can be effective in teaching leadership. This is, perhaps, the wrong question.


According to two of the most prominent thinkers and writers on the topic, a more


relevant question is: Can leadership be learned? The answer is a resounding “Yes.” One of the tools at our disposal in setting out on the life-long effort that is learning to lead is studying the “art of leadership” from history’s great leaders.


Rudy Giuliani wrote: “Leadership is mostly a skill that people learn. They learn from their parents, from their friends and colleagues, from their teachers, and from their clergy. never met – by reading about them.”


You supply the parents, friends, colleagues, teachers and clergy. We’ll supply the leaders you’ve never met – via the NJSACOP Staff Rides for Law Enforcement and our other presentations on history’s great leaders.


The Battles of Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania Staff Ride for Law Enforcement Leaders September 22-24, 2017


1William Robertson, The Staff Ride [U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, DC 1987], p. 3 2Id. 3The NJSACOP Staff Rides for Law Enforcement Leaders includes sessions exploring the Battle of Gettysburg (Gettysburg, PA), the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg, MD), The Battle of Bull Run & Arlington National Cemetery (Manassas & Arlington, VA), and the Battles of


Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, VA). 4The NJSACOP and NJSACOP Command & Leadership Alumni Association 1-Day Staff Rides include explorations of the Battles of Trenton & Princeton (Mercer County, NJ), The Battle of Monmouth Court House (Monmouth County, NJ), The Battle of Brandywine (Chester County, PA), The Battle of Paoli & Valley Forge (Chester County, PA), Battle of West Point & US Military Academy at West Point (Orange


County, NY), Battle of Baltimore & Ft. McHenry (Baltimore, MD). 5Ossad, Steven L., Wharton Leadership Digest, Volume 10, Number 4, January 2006. 6Edgar Puryear, American Generalship: Character Is Everything [Ballantine Books, New York 2000], 7p. 340. 8Id. at p. 74. 9John Laffin, Secrets of Leadership: Thirty Centuries of Command [Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, UK 2004], p. 2. 10Robert Taylor and William Rosenbach, eds., Military Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence [Westview Press, Boulder, CO 2000], p. 3. 11Id., at 4, quoting Gen. Matthew Ridgeway: “[L]eadership is probably a combination of art and sciences. He thinks that there is far more art than


science involved. He describes the chief ingredients of leadership as character, courage and competence. His advice for developing leadership is to read history and biography, work hard, be humble, and be oneself.”


But leaders also learn from leaders they’ve


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