Working the Blue Lines
lessons in leadership from hockey and policing
Published on 15. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-990187-32-2 (ISBN)
Description
Jean-Michel Blais, former chief of Halifax Regional Municipality police, member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and a veteran of emergency relief and humanitarian efforts after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, gives a master-class in leadership. Blais draws on his experiences in the RCMP, with the United Nations, and as a hockey referee to distill the characteristics a good leader needs to lead well, and how to use both good and bad experiences to develop them.
Each chapter has a list of "calls from the blue line" to summarize the chapter's message and give the reader encouragement in how to move toward becoming a better leader.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-990187-32-2 (9781990187322)
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Jean-Michel "JM" Blais spent 31 years in policing as a senior executive with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the United Nations, and as chief of Halifax Regional Police. He has worked throughout Canada and was posted in four different provinces. He spent almost two years in Haiti, working as a frontline police officer and senior executive. Of Franco-Ontarian background, from Sudbury, JM grew up in Montréal and Toronto. He obtained his undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montréal and his law degree from Université Laval in Québec City. Since 2005, JM has officiated minor hockey as a Hockey Canada Level III official. He initiated both his youngest daughter and son into the world of officiating; both have since surpassed their father in the levels they have officiated. He still regularly officiates out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he resides with his wife and two dogs. JM has published several works on international and national police-related topics and lectured extensively on leadership and modern police management, including mental health and wellness. He has a TEDx talk to his credit. Working the Blue Lines: Lessons in Leadership from Hockey and Policing is his first published book. He is also one of the co-authors of a novel, Less Than Innocent, which Moose House will publish in the fall of 2022.