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134: Dangerous Driving
Tactical Tangents - April 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 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...
133: There's Nothing "Friendly" about "Friendly Fire"
Tactical Tangents - March 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe only thing more frightening than being shot at by your own team is finding out you just shot up your own team. The very idea of fratricide…aka “Blue-on-Blue” incidents…is scary, but being a professional means you can’t just be scared, you have to work on your skills and knowledge to counter ...
132: You Can't Spell "Officer" without "Office"
Tactical Tangents - March 01, 2023 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOffices come in a variety of shapes and guises, from a room with desks and whiteboards to the front seat of a squad car. In this solo episode, Jim sounds off on his favorite topic: Management is not a dirty word, to be shunned in favor of “leadership”. Rather, management is part of leadership. I...
131: Ending the Threat, Reasonably
Tactical Tangents - February 15, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsSometimes bad training passes down information that might once have been good, but garbles it. Take “Shooting to Stop the Threat”…please. This episode sees Mike and Jim discuss the nuances of using lethal force to reasonably end the capacity of an assailant to harm you. What exactly is incapacit...
Short Talk: Growing into Solving Problems
Tactical Tangents - February 11, 2023 22:04 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsFor a person in a first responder line of work, being caught with an inadequate skill toolset in a critical incident can lead to the sort of feelings of helplessness that are a greased rail to PTSD-land. In this short episode, Mike talks through some ways to preemptively head off those bad feeli...
Short Talk: Spotting Zebras
Tactical Tangents - February 05, 2023 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn a short episode inspired by a listener question, Mike dives into the art of noticing abnormalities. An EMT instructs his trainees to put every patient on the EKG, whether the complaint is cardiac related or not. Why? So that the trainee will develop a baseline of what normal cardiac activity ...
130: The Power of Professionalism
Tactical Tangents - February 01, 2023 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhat is a professional? The dictionary says, at its simplest, that it’s someone paid to perform a task, as opposed to an amateur. But there’s more to it than a paycheck. In this episode, Jim and Mike examine the characteristics of what we know as professionalism, and how they apply in the world ...
Smarter Collaboration, Performance & Reward
Performance Leaders Podcast - January 30, 2023 02:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOur guest on the Performance Leader's podcast is Dr. Heidi K. Gardner, author of the best selling book Smart Collaboration, and the newly released Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work. Dr. Gardner is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School ...
Short Talk: Accentuate the Positive
Tactical Tangents - January 22, 2023 07:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsCan you weaponize a positive mental outlook? In this short episode, Jim talks about positivity and optimism and how they can be cultivated and employed by leaders. When your job is basically to foresee and plan for worst-case scenarios, this can be a factor that is easy to overlook. Optimism can...
Short Talk: Go Touch Grass
Tactical Tangents - January 18, 2023 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn this short episode, Jim talks about the benefits he finds in taking the time to get outdoors. If you’re listening to these podcasts, you’re probably a pretty outdoorsy person, but take the time to think of the benefits of outdoor recreation: Exercise, a chance to unwind the mind from the job,...
129: Managing Resourceful Humans
Tactical Tangents - January 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhile gear is expensive and important, humans are even more so. When you’ve found the people with the right aptitudes and trained them with the right skills, how do you keep them achieving up to their capabilities? Mike and Jim discuss thishugely important part of the leadership role. Talent man...
128: You Have Questions, We Have Answers
Tactical Tangents - January 01, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsFor the first episode of the New Year, Mike and Jim tap one of the podcast’s most important resources: You, the listeners! We asked the members of the Tactical Tangents Facebook Discussion Group for a list of questions, with the promise of podcast swag for the best one. (If you’re not in the gro...
127: Getting the Band Together
Tactical Tangents - December 15, 2022 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe A-Team couldn’t have pulled off a caper with four B.A. Baracuses , U2 never would have been a hit with four Bonos, and nine Legolases couldn’t have gotten the One Ring to Mordor. Putting together a good team is about more than just a mix of skills, though, and in this episode Jim and Mike ta...
126: The Inner Game of Thriving
Tactical Tangents - December 01, 2022 13:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn this episode, Mike sits down for a discussion with Ross Hick. In addition to his career supervising violent felons as a Probation Surveillance Officer, Ross works as a trainer with Citizens Defense Research. One of his specialties is the psychology of critical incidents. There’s a lot of mate...
125: No Shi...Kidding, There I Was...
Tactical Tangents - November 16, 2022 05:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsNobody wants to put on a show that’s all war stories. It sounds like you’re trying to fluff your resume and can bore others who’ve also been there and done that. Plus you don’t want to talk out of school. At the same time, there’s a lot of hard-won institutional knowledge that can come from thos...
124: Symphony of Terror
Tactical Tangents - November 01, 2022 20:38 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsFor all its chaos, the stereotypical active shooter situation is fairly straightforward: There’s a bad guy killing people, and the good guys need to close with him and stop him as quickly as possible. The events of November 2008 in the Indian city of Mumbai, however, showed us another, complex, ...
123: A Scared Cop is a Dangerous Cop
Tactical Tangents - October 15, 2022 13:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThere are people who believe that inserting the police in a situation makes things worse. Are they right? In this solo episode from Mike, he looks at the perils of the “fear biter” and the negative effects of an unmanaged fight or flight response on decision making skills. Stress management is i...
David Patient, Reflections on Leading a Law Firm
Performance Leaders Podcast - October 06, 2022 02:56 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMy guest on S3 Ep 3 of the Performance Leaders podcast is David Patient from Travers Smith. David trained at Travers Smith and became a partner in 1999, specialising in UK and international M&A. He established the firm’s Paris office in the same year. In this episode David reflects on his t...
Mandalay Bay Mass Shooting Debrief w/ SWAT Commander & Patrol Sergeant
Tactical Tangents - October 01, 2022 17:24 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAmerica's largest mass killer attack revisited by retired LVMPD Lt. Will Huddler and Sgt. Ashton Packe, who share their accounts of the Route 91 Country Music Festival shooting with audio and video from the event. Lessons learned for first responders, patrol officers, tactical operators, and pub...
122: Countering the Stalker
Tactical Tangents - October 01, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhether it’s a former significant other who just won’t accept the end of a relationship, or a semi-stranger from the internet who imagines a relationship where there never was one, dealing with a stalker can be a complex, stressful, and even dangerous problem. In this episode Jim and Mike take a...
121: Training: The Good, The Bad, & The Dangerous
Tactical Tangents - September 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn a crossover episode of Tactical Tangents, Mike sits down with Danimal of The Thin Brewed Line to talk about setting up a training program to keep officers alive on the streets…and in the training environment. In a dangerous profession, the danger shouldn’t be coming from inside the program! ...
120: The Big Ideas: What We're All About
Tactical Tangents - September 01, 2022 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhat are we doing here and why are we doing it? With an assist from Mike, Jim lays out the secret; the keys to the whole mission of Tactical Tangents. These are the key concepts to helping the Doers do things better in the tactical world, whether military, law enforcement, or general personal de...
119: Instant Expertise (Just Add Experience)
Tactical Tangents - August 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIt’s easy to find yourself thrust into a position where others regard you as an ”expert”, but what really constitutes expertise? Do you have it? Can it be acquired? When will you feel like you have it? (And why feeling like an expert should be a warning sign…) What makes an expert? Are you on...
118: A War Waged Against Dallas PD
Tactical Tangents - August 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsA lone gunman killed 5 Dallas police officers and wounded several others in this 2016 attack following a series of contested officer involved shootings throughout the country. Lessons include ambush and counter-ambush tactics, the militarization of law enforcement, and a use of a bomb robot rigg...
Short Talk: Safety Strategy: The Swiss Cheese Model
Tactical Tangents - July 19, 2022 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn this short episode, Jim introduces the idea of layering safety and security to “trap errors” and mitigate the risk of human error. We want to help you do dangerous jobs safely. Like what we’re doing? Head over to Patreon and give us a buck for each new episode. You can also make a one-t...
117: Teach Them Monsters Can Be Defeated: Rampage Murder Update Episode
Tactical Tangents - July 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsSchool Shootings seem to be on the rise, is gun control the answer? How many red flags does someone have to show before you intervene? Let’s look at the evidence and learn from the recent cases like Parkland and Uvalde. Links: A Study of the Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters in the US ...
116: Making the Right Call: Tactical Decision Making and Scene Command
Tactical Tangents - July 01, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMike & Jim work through the considerations a tactical commander has to account for to accelerate the decision making process, navigate risk, and ultimately encourage initiative and violence of action. Like what we’re doing? Head over to Patreon and give us a buck for each new episode. You ...
Short Talk: What does it mean to "Be Safe?"
Tactical Tangents - June 23, 2022 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMike has a quick rant about when someone says "Be safe tonight!" What does that even mean? Link: The "X" defined Like what we’re doing? Head over to Patreon and give us a buck for each new episode. You can also make a one-time contribution at GoFundMe. Intro music credit Bensound.com
115: Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? Developing Telepathy in High Performing Teams
Tactical Tangents - June 15, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsPeople who have worked together long enough can almost read each other’s minds, and that sense of shared consciousness and implicit communication is the secret sauce to taking a team dynamic to the next level. Mike and Jim discuss group dynamics and ways to develop the bonds to take teamwork to ...
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