Analyze a Leader: Section Chief Loren Cannon, FBI

June 1, 2016, Jonathan Mark Froehlich in

https://sites.psu.edu/leaderfoundationsclarke/2016/06/01/analyze-a-leader-blog-entry/

While most of his friends and former classmates were taking family vacations, working part-time jobs, or otherwise enjoying a little post high school freedom, Loren “Renn” Cannon was sweating his way through one of the hottest summers the US Military Academy at West Point ever had the twisted pleasure of offering it’s first-year cadets.

It was on West Point’s sprawling campus, seated reagally on the high ground of Orange County, NJ overlooking the Hudson River, that Renn would experience a swift, intense indoctrination into the theory and practice of leadership.

Given the fact that Renn attended an institution so steadfastly focused on molding individuals into world class leaders, it should come as no surprise that his subsequent career in both the private and public sector has been marked by promotions, increasingly high levels of responsibility, and other leadership development successes.

Still, one cannot help but think that his collision with leadership at such an early age is perhaps due to some combination of irony and design – if feeling especially whimsical, one might even call it fate – particularly seeing that, for the last 19 months, Renn has found himself at the helm of the FBI’s Leadership Development Program. Known around the halls of the J. Edgar Hoover Building simply as “LDP,” Renn’s program repesents the tip of the spear as far as the Bureau’s ongoing effort to evaluate and re-engineer its leadership culture.

Given that FBI leadership development entails nearly a complete overhaul of what can sometimes seem like countless systems, programs, and strategies, Renn is faced with no easy task. And the fact that leadership development is a Director’s Priority Initiative, or a DPI in Bureau speak, is something of a double-edged sword; while LDP has access to considerable resources, there is also tremendous pressure to, in no uncertain terms, get the job done.

Although there are many theories and models which attempt to predict leadership potential and dissect the attributes which make a good leader, by almost any measure, Renn Cannon presents a highly instructive and useful case study.

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but , doesn't 'get the job done' sound like something that hussein just tweeted out recently….is that an FBI saying?

>>10607538

>Analyze a Leader: Section Chief Loren Cannon, FBI

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As with many facets of the human experience, how we inertact with one another often becomes a matter of traits, skills, and behaviors; and leadership is no exception. It is here in this corner of leadership theory, that Renn and his experiences provide such fertile ground for a discussion of good leaders and, perhaps more importantly, what makes them that way.

Out of the multitude of terms peppered throughout the world of leadership theory, two which would seem to apply to Renn’s personal and professional journey: “knowledge of the business”, one of leadership traits put forth by Shelley Kirkpatrick and Edwin Locke in 1991, and “critical experiences,” a sub-element supporting the three main pillars of the modern leadership skills model.

As with many facets of the human experience, how we inertact with one another often becomes a matter of traits and behavior; and leadership is no exception. It is here in this corner of leadership theory, that Renn and his experiences provide such fertile ground for a discussion of good leaders and, perhaps more importantly, what makes them that way.

As the title suggests, Shelley Kirkpatrick and Edwin Locke’s paper “Leadership: Do Traits Matter?” discusses the importance of leadership traits. Among their list of six central leadership traits is “knowledge of the business.” While Kirkpatrick and Locke are careful to distinguish between knowledge and education, they nevertheless point to knowledge as a key aspect of leadership.

Another leadership concept with bears on this conversation is “career experiences.” A sub-component of the modern skills theory, “career experiences” outlines the importance of gaining professional experience, particularly early on in one’s career, and how it impacts one’s ability to develop as a leader.

But how does Renn embody these principles? What makes him so special? When I tell you this is where things get interesting, the “where” is any number of crime-infested neighborhoods of the San Francisco, California Bay Area and, by “interesting,” I mean potentially deadly.

While there is really no such thing as routine for a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) operator, as the senior team leader of FBI San Francisco’s elite tactical unit, Renn had grown somewhat accustomed to the uncertainty of his work and developed a nack for leading his followers through a host of dangerous situations, including what Renn would call a “Hollywood style” foot chase across city rooftops and getting into a firefight while serving a high risk warrant on a group of gang members with access to a large cache of high powered assault weapons.

In fact, the phrase “high risk” essentially sums up Renn’s everyday existence as a SWAT officer and offers a stark example of how his “critical experiences” fed his “knowledge of the business” (and vice versa) and shaped him into the outstanding leader he is today.

REFERENCES:

Kirkpatrick, S. & Locke, E. (1991). Leadership: Do Traits Matter. The Executive, 5 (2), 48-60

Clarke, J. (n.d.), L03 Skills Model (Modern), retrieved from PSU Canvas

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this Renn appears to be hand-selected and put through quite a 'programming' program.

Maybe we need to digz on his parents.

>>10607538

>Loren Cannon, FBI started his career in San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi territory

November 30, 2016

Loren 'Renn' Cannon Named Special Agent in Charge of the Portland Division

FBI Director James B. Comey has named Loren “Renn” Cannon as the special agent in charge of the Portland Division. Mr. Cannon most recently served as the section chief of the Leadership Development Program in the Human Resources Branch at FBI Headquarters.

Mr. Cannon entered on duty with the FBI in 1998 and began his career in the San Francisco Division, San Jose Resident Agency, where he investigated violent crime, drug trafficking organizations, and international terrorism. Mr. Cannon also served as the San Francisco SWAT senior team leader.

Throughout his career, Mr. Cannon has held leadership positions in the San Francisco Joint Terrorism Task Force, as the deputy on-scene commander in Afghanistan, and as the assistant legal attaché in Sydney, Australia.

Mr. Cannon will assume this new role in late January.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/loren-renn-cannon-named-special-agent-in-charge-of-the-portland-division

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>>10607644

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>>10607659

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>>10607880

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>>10607932

>PAIN