Saturday, September 14, 2013

Analysis book Leadership for the Common Good (LCG) by Crosby & Bryson

This is an analysis of the the book Leadership for the Common Good (LCG) by Crosby & Bryson: Preface and Chapter 1 related with public security leadership, they concepts were discussed in the course of the same name at Humphrey School of Public Affairs - University of Minnesota.

Actually, the world is completely interconnected affecting the entire population of the planet without distinction including information, people, and problems. Likewise, since this population shares the responsibility what comes from the decisions, behaviors and actions of the people, then the power must be shared too to solve these problems. This is the start of the leadership for the common good. 

No-one-in-charge is a difficult conception for a top manager who has many powers in an organization, but it is the daily reality for public leaders because they are given social responsibility. For instance, at the same time if the police officers want implement a security policy. Decisions and activities to be successful, they must share if the power with mass media to convince people the change behaviors, with prosecutors and judges to become more efficient in the judicial process, and with others stakeholders that could provide reasonable resources and information as the book mentioned. The environment of international crimes like drug trafficking is essentially a shared-power world because this crime is very complex crossing different cultures, laws, geographic places, security agencies, and cartels. From drug trafficking arises other crime such as money laundering, assassinations, arms trafficking, etc. This case has a large influence of shared-power world because the governments propose public policy in security, diplomacy, and health; local organizations as homeland security agencies, private security organizations, NGO, farmers, airports, seaports, trains and rails station, addicts, etc. They make decisions and coordination to control this crime but at the same time the drug cartels, criminal partners and others are adapting and changing their strategies to avoid the world is not attacking –it is the cooperative network partners.   

The chapter proposes an important conception about stakeholders as part of the problem and solution; they should give resources, information, and power to develop and implement link solutions. Emergent, programming and operational problems are process of identification, analysis, and solution of the problem. These activities permit shared-power among many organizations, institutions, peoples, companies or governments.

Within of share-power world, if it is possible to amplify who do the role of facilitator or mediator (not a leader because he does not make decisions) because without this kind of roles, it is too difficult to bring many organizations for the same objective or same solution, despite that every stakeholder would provide help; also, it exists the case where a very important stakeholder would not like to provide help, the mediator should convince to help and permeating the shared-power world. In referring to what case the stakeholders have the equal objective wishing to they may have others objective as well work together for common good, but if the stakeholders do not have the equal objective the agents could have the different behaviors and outcomes.


Another important idea is that shared-power world does not diminish the importance of leaders; they leaders still have influence and power within and without the organization, and with stakeholders. It is a big positive paradox.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

La beca Fulbright del Capitán de la Policía Nacional Andrés Pérez Coronado

Edición N°1/ Junio 2013 contáctanos: capitalhumano@mindefensa.gov.co

El Valor de Nuestro Capital Humano


La beca Fulbright del Capitán de la Policía Nacional

Andrés Pérez Coronado


CT. Andrés Pérez ­‐ Universidad de Montana – EE.UU
En esta edición, queremos destacar el logro del Capitán de la Policía Nacional Andrés Pérez, quien es beneficiario de la beca Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey. Esta beca es un programa de intercambio académico para profesionales en la mitad de sus carreras. Se obtiene mediante un concurso que se hace cada año, con la participación de 140 países. Para 2013 seleccionaron candidatos de 50 países, por Colombia se presentaron 54 personas de las cuales sólo dos obtuvieron la beca. De lo anterior, Andrés es el primer miembro de la Fuerza Pública que obtiene este importante logro. En versiones anteriores, fue ganada por la Ex Ministra de Cultura, Paula Moreno, y el Ex Ministro de Defensa Rodrigo Rivera.

Los requisitos básicos para la beca son: un nivel intermedio de inglés, cinco años de experiencia profesional, un muy buen backround académico, demostrar la realización de aportes significativos a la sociedad colombiana y tener proyección profesional en el ámbito del servicio público.

El proceso inicia realizando la aplicación en línea, donde la comisión Fulbright de cada país evalúa la trayectoria profesional, el área de interés, que para el caso del Capitán Pérez fue el análisis de políticas públicas y administración pública, nivel de inglés mediante resultados del TOELF y el recuento de los aportes significativos a la sociedad colombiana. Quienes son seleccionados van a entrevista, para el caso de Andrés fue en inglés y español, con exbecarios Humphrey y la encargada del programa en Colombia, donde se debe justificar el proyecto a realizar, los aportes realizados y las capacidades para convertirse en un líder para el país.

Quienes superan este proceso van a revisión del Instituto de Educación Internacional de losEstados Unidos, para evaluar la calidad de los evaluados, por Colombia enviaron 7 candidatos.

Posterior a este chequeo en el mes de diciembre en Washington, se convocan expertos de entidades gubernamentales y no-gubernamentales a nivel internacional quienes evalúan las aplicaciones y emiten los respectivos conceptos.

Los candidatos propuestos son evaluados por la Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, en este casoparticular, el proyecto del Capitán Pérez está enfocado en articular el nivel estratégico con elnivel operacional, en función de la seguridad pública, permitiendo la anticipación del crimencreado por tecnologías emergentes.