In this edition of our Corporate Competitor Podcast, Maxwell Leadership Thought Leader Don Yaeger sits down with IBM’s Stacie Mason to discuss the art of listening and why it’s still a leader’s greatest asset in a diverse workplace.
The Sarasota City Commission has approved a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with the union that represents the Sarasota Police Department. The salary scale, though, will be reviewed on an annual basis.
The Sarasota Police Department whistleblower who made an anonymous complaint against Chief Bernadette DiPino warned city officials that if an officer or detective – and not the chief – had said they wanted to use a Taser on a mentally ill homeless man for creating a minor ruckus, “the comment would be met with a harsh punishment.”
“She has disciplined officers for verbal discourtesy for far more minor offensive or insensitive remarks to citizens,” the anonymous officer said in an email. “Very inappropriate for a leader to make light of such an individual publicly in front of officers, no less joke about a use of force against them for no reason.”