Top cop: controlled chaos can be an ally

Reaching consensus among disagreeing sides and factions can be a leader’s toughest job.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 11:20 a.m. June 17, 2021
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Mark Wemple. Tom Knight was named CEO of First Step of Sarasota in January, after his third term as Sarasota County Sheriff ended.
Mark Wemple. Tom Knight was named CEO of First Step of Sarasota in January, after his third term as Sarasota County Sheriff ended.
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When you lead an organization that gives several hundred armed people, many of them young men in their 20s, the authority to take away people’s freedom, pressure is bound to follow.

 

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