“..how a leader would go about trying to set the organization straight”, Honorable RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson Teaches Us.

Honorable RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson
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“I’ve had discussions with colleagues around the sense of urgency we need to attach. Like the military in post-Somalia. I’ve talked to some colleagues in the military there and tried to understand how a leader would go about trying to set the organization straight. That’s really how I marketed myself during these interviews that went on for the selection of Commissioner. You describe failures upon failures upon failures. This will sound inappropriate, but I’ll say I watched those from a distance until I got into the senior executive…..because my experience has been success upon success upon success. Not because of me but because of the teams I was lucky enough to be a part of. And it was incredible. It was remarkable. When you are able to pull together a bunch of people and deliver a really complex and “Cadillac” piece of policing, for Canadians, it’s like no other feeling in the world. I’ve flown airplanes upside down at 200 feet, at 300 knots and that’s exciting, but it’s not near as exciting as being able to deliver one of these big cases. Real, significant change, to use perhaps a bad metaphor, will be only attainable when you clear cut….there has to be some removal of any stain of former sort of ethos, or culture, or value system. I don’t think you do that overnight. But I think you can do that in the very near term if you are consistent by making things simple and clear and making sure people in the organization get it.”

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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