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160: Lights in the Sky: Aliens or Drones? Jim Spills the Beans on UFOs
Tactical Tangents - May 01, 2024 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsJust because it's not aliens doesn't mean we can ignore it. Let's develop a comprehensive air defense and counter drone plan in the wake of Ukraine, Syria, and Gaza. We investigate Unidentified Flying Objects, UAVs, aliens, killer drones, spy satellites, Chinese balloons, and Foo Fighters. ...
159: What’s up with the beards? Setting and Enforcing Standards
Tactical Tangents - April 15, 2024 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsGreen Berets have to work with a different rule book than the troops guarding nuclear weapons—and for good reasons. We explore the balance between strict adherence to rules and the often necessary flexibility to go off-script in tactical operations and your organization’s culture. Find us ...
Carole O'Neil on leading a global engineering firm: change, culture & sustainability
Performance Leaders Podcast - April 03, 2024 03:54 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOur guest on the Performance Leader podcast is Carole O’Neil, ManagingPartner at Cundall, a global multi-disciplinary engineering practice delivering sustainable design projects in the built environment from 26 offices in locations across the UK and Ireland, EMENA and Asia Pacific. Carole ...
158: “Your Children Are Not Safe”: DC Beltway Snipers
Tactical Tangents - April 01, 2024 07:01 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsIn October 2002, a 17 and 41 year old carried out a series of serial murders, killing 10 and wounding 3 others in what were described as random attacks against people doing every day tasks like pumping gas and mowing their lawn. We cover lessons from this large scale, multi-agency investigation ...
157: Use it or Lose it: The Essence of Officer Discretion
Tactical Tangents - March 15, 2024 07:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsThere are over 18,000 police Chiefs and Sheriffs in the United States, and every one of them has their own version of what right and wrong looks like. But unless they plan on showing up at every traffic stop, they are going to have to trust that their Officers and Deputies on the front lines are...
156: I AM THAT B*TCH! Erica Gaines of TacMobility
Tactical Tangents - March 01, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsErica is the founder of TacMobility, a wellness training company and online resource with a ton of free material for public safety. TacMobility is implementing a blend of mobility training and mental health support by working its way past the tough “sheepdog” exterior. Through eye-opening surv...
155: Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say
Tactical Tangents - February 15, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsHere’s the thing about plane crashes: We all die at the same time. Inefficient and ambiguous communication has serious tactical implications when managing a crisis as a team. Sometimes, we water down what we need to say because we don’t want to step on toes or piss anyone off, especially when ta...
154: Get with the times: Pistol Optics are the way of the present
Tactical Tangents - February 01, 2024 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsFor some reason there are a lot of people out there who still feel like putting an optic on your pistol isn’t reliable or practical, and our handsome hand model in the photo John Correia calls those people the Gun Amish. We agree with that title, because it’s 2024 and pistol mounted optics are a...
153: Guns n’ Guitars: Go learn something new
Tactical Tangents - January 15, 2024 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsThere is an art and science to learning a new skill. Whether you are picking up new hobbies and trying to improve performance at essential job tasks, there are some tricks and concepts to understand to break plateaus and keep training fun. We cover crawl walk run, the balance between simple and ...
152: Do you trust me? Selflessness in Teamwork
Tactical Tangents - January 01, 2024 07:01 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWe say that we should put Service before Self, but it's more than just a mantra. Where the rubber meets the road is all in how we develop implicit trust among teammates so that we know where each other is going to be and what they are going to do when the going gets tough. We can accomplish this...
151: All's Well...If We Make it Well
Tactical Tangents - December 15, 2023 07:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWellness isn’t just a soft and fuzzy term bandied about in the Human Resources department. Healthier, happier employees perform better, and in professions where the rubber meets the road, wellness is tactical. The trite concept of Work/Life balance isn’t so trite when lives are on the line. How ...
150: Team Selection: Real-Life Fantasy Draft
Tactical Tangents - December 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWhen drafting players for your fantasy sportsball team, stats provide an easy benchmark. Just pick the ones with the most home runs, passing yards, and the highest free-throw percentage. It’s a little harder selecting people for your real-life tactical team, but having a similar checklist in min...
149: A Good Commander Knows What to Control
Tactical Tangents - November 15, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsNo team in law enforcement is composed of robotic textbook-following automatons, nor would we want it to be, if we’ve ever found ourselves at 2MPH over the limit. But when a worst-case incident unfolds, we want every first responder to make the right decision at the speed of life, because in tho...
148: Sleeping for Success
Tactical Tangents - November 01, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsThe downsides of sleep deprivation are legion: irritability, poor judgment, even lowered testosterone. Yet the duties of the .mil and LE career fields are well known for demanding odd and/or long hours that can make it hard to get good sleep. Mike talks with Dr. Paul Sargent of O2X, a specialist...
147: Finding the Bomber
Tactical Tangents - October 15, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsIn the spring of 2018, the city of Austin, Texas was rocked by a string of package bombs, five in all, that killed two and injured five. The story of how local and federal agencies tracked down the perpetrator is almost all open source and a great illustration of how these investigations proc...
146: Put Me In, Coach!
Tactical Tangents - October 01, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsDo you know what every great slugger in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown had in common? They all had hitting coaches. Today we have an abundance of riches in the form of internet videos to teach almost any skill, but at some point most everyone will benefit from the feedback of a skilled...
145: Both Sides of the Door - Breonna Taylor and Bad Outcomes
Tactical Tangents - September 15, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsIn the world of ugly warrant execution, there are a lot of bad scenarios that have happened with lessons to be learned for people on both sides of the door. In this episode, Mike & Jim break down a notorious recent incident: The 2020 shooting of Breonna Taylor during a narcotics warrant serv...
144 : The Real Burdens of Everyday Carry
Tactical Tangents - September 01, 2023 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsIf you’re a habitual firearms toter, how do you carry to and from places where you can’t carry? Do you? What if it’s someplace where there’s no provision for securing it at your destination? Whether going to and from the neighborhood BJJ gym or visiting a military base, this can be a real dilemm...
143: Problem Solving As A Team Sport
Tactical Tangents - August 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsIn the pop-culture tactical world today it’s common to see Col. Boyd’s Decision Cycle, the famed “OODA Loop”, applied to individuals and their actions, but indeed it has its origins as an institutional concept. If you need to solve problems as a team, or even an institution, it’s important to kn...
142: Making Sure the Kids are Alright
Tactical Tangents - August 01, 2023 07:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsIn any organization it’s almost a tradition to turn and look at the people coming up through the ranks behind you and bemoan how much better things were in the Good Old Days. Of course, things were better then because the people who had come up through the ranks before you helped mentor you into...
141: Having Public Affairs Without Screwing Up
Tactical Tangents - July 15, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsMike reminds us that “Responsibility to the Community” is not just a slogan on a squad car door in this episode, where he and Jim talk about the necessity of keeping the public informed in a manner that is both helpful to the public and not harmful to ongoing investigations. ”Public Affairs” is ...
140: The Case of "The Mission v. The People"
Tactical Tangents - July 01, 2023 07:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsIn dangerous career fields like the military or law enforcement, there’s an unavoidable tension of priorities between the mission and the safety of the people on the team who need to accomplish it. It’s one thing to say you put your people first, but if it was a safe job, they wouldn’t issue bod...
139: We Don't Like Bombs, The Bombs That Go Boom
Tactical Tangents - June 16, 2023 03:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsBombs are scary. You can’t shoot back at an explosion or talk it into surrendering or leaving you alone. But you can learn ways to spot the bad guy’s device before it does its thing. In today’s episode, Jim and Mike delve into some basics of the hows, whys, and wheres of improvised explosive dev...
138: Your Candle Only Has Two Ends
Tactical Tangents - June 01, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsHigh-stress jobs, such as those in the military or law enforcement fields, tend to attract mission-oriented people, dedicated to the team and the public, who thrive on stress. Well, plants thrive on water, too, but you can still wind up drowning them with too much of it. In today’s episode, Jim ...
137: Most Danger Doesn't Come From Strangers
Tactical Tangents - May 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsPart of our mission here at Tactical Tangents is to overcome the “tactical fantasy”, and in this episode, Mike and Jim talk about avoiding one of the most pernicious ones. It’s easy in a world full of tacticool training classes to get focused on the sort of threats to ourselves and loved ones th...
Lewis Iwu on Purpose in Professional Services Firms
Performance Leaders Podcast - May 05, 2023 01:29 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOur guest on the Performance Leader’s podcast is Lewis Iwu, co-founder and CEO of Purpose Union, a social purpose strategy firm united by the belief that the world is better off when companies and organisations think, act and communicate with a defined social purpose. Lewis advises organisatio...
136 The Bear, The Dragon, and You
Tactical Tangents - May 01, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsThe wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be over (for now) but that doesn’t leave us in a world without conflict. While we were hip-deep in the Global War on Terror, major great power competitors have been nursing grievances and feeling rising ambitions and opportunities. In this episode, Jim takes ...
135: Operationally Supporting Supporters Who Operate
Tactical Tangents - April 15, 2023 15:48 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsIn both the military and law enforcement universes, there’s often an understandable amount of friction between the people out where the action is and those who help them get there and support them in their work. In this episode, Jim and Mike discuss ways to smooth cooperation between the people ...
134: Dangerous Driving
Tactical Tangents - April 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsIn a cool tactical podcast, everybody wants to talk about a gunfight and nobody wants to talk about getting t-boned in an intersection on the way to the gunfight. This episode features Mike & Jim, who’ve bent enough fenders between them to have some advice to offer, talking about the realities o...
Neville Eisenberg on Leadership, Strategy & High Performing Firms
Performance Leaders Podcast - March 26, 2023 19:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOur guest on the Performance Leader podcast is Neville Eisenberg. Neville grew up in South Africa, where he qualified as a lawyer. After gaining his Masters in Law from the LSE, je joined the London Corporate Finance Department at Berwin Leighton in 1989. He was made partner in 1995, joined th...
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