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Rank Doesn't Lead
Rank is earned. Leadership is demonstrated. Rank Doesn't Lead turns real-world events into practical leadership lessons. Host Keith Clicque, a police chief in North Texas, looks at leaders with rank and at the people who lead without a title: the dispatcher, the veteran officer, the nurse, the teammate everyone turns to. In five minutes or less, three times a week, you'll get lessons on accountability, culture, crisis, and trust from a chief who's still learning the job too. It's for public…
Episodes
- Rank Doesn't Lead
I Just Am One: What a Misspoken Compliment Teaches Leaders About Intent and Impact
A sergeant tried to pay Keith a compliment and it came out exactly wrong. The lesson is about intent versus impact, and how a leader's reaction decides whether…
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"Loser Thinking": What a Tech CEO's Reaction to a Safety Concern Teaches Leaders About Speaking Up
An engineer asked for a few days to test new code for security holes. According to leaked messages reported by 404 Media, the CEO called the request nonsense…
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"Playing for Tomorrow": What the Brewers' World Series Teaches Leaders About Judging the Call
In Game 4 of the World Series, Brewers manager Pat Murphy kept his ace, Jacob Misiorowski, in the bullpen, and the Rays won in 12 innings. The next day he…
Rank Doesn't LeadFour Lights: Leadership Lessons from Captain Picard
Sir Patrick Stewart died on October 28, 2026, at 86. For many of us, he will always be Captain Jean-Luc Picard. This tribute episode looks at four leadership…
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Ten Years of Everything I Had
When was the last time you kept a promise nobody else would have known you broke? Most of us make one on January first and have quietly broken it by the Super…
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"I Just Hopped On There": What a Store Clerk and a Runaway School Bus Teach Leaders About Stepping In
A school bus rolled past a St. Paul, Minnesota, convenience store with its door wide open and its driver in a medical emergency. A 27-year-old store clerk…
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Special Episode: One Year Later, What Cancer Taught Me About Leadership
One year ago today, Keith Clicque was diagnosed with testicular cancer. What he thought was a kidney stone turned into a year of chemo, prayer, and a new baby…
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"They Hopped the Fence to Play": What a Pickup Soccer Game Teaches Leaders About Trust
Two Suffolk County (N.Y.) police officers pulled up to a night pickup soccer game, and the teens figured they were about to be sent home. Instead, the officers…
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"That Starts With Me": What a Tough Cowboys Loss Taught Me About Owning It
Keith Clicque, a Cowboys fan having a rough season, finds an unexpected leadership lesson in Brian Schottenheimer's "that starts with me" after a tough loss…
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I Recognized the Fabric: Closing the Loop for the People Who Do the Quiet Work
A church sewing group in Ohio spent two decades making sleeping bags, and one volunteer finally saw where they ended up when she recognized the fabric on a…
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The Handoff Is the Job: What Charleston's Chief Transition Teaches About Succession
Charleston, West Virginia, just handed its police department from retiring Chief Scott Dempsey to longtime deputy chief Jason Webb, and the transition shows…