Ensuring leadership fitness: lessons from policing

摘要: Purpose – Policing is an enormously challenging occupation. Despite the difficulties, however, vast majority of police officers are extremely resilient and demonstrate high levels self‐control, compassion, professionalism love for work they have chosen to do. Their dedication service inspiring. These appear ability re‐direct their emotionally charged frustrations use experiences create new meaning compassion. This paper seeks look at what leaders in all public‐sector organisations can learn from these officers, be done ensure fully fit role perform times austerity cutback.Design/methodology/approach Drawing on extensive research this area, provides author's view lessons policing that applied across public sector.Findings The author argues when deeper issues considered, many challen...