Go, Tell the Spartans

A Lesson in Leadership

by George Belsky, Blue Courage/Purple Resolve Master Educator

In 480 BC, on or about 20 August, the Spartan king Leonidas I led his bodyguard of 300 warriors, along with approximately 7000 Greeks from Arcadia, Phocis, Thespiae, Tegea, Mantinea, Thebes and other city states, in the defense of the pass at Thermopylae against the invading Persian...

Dare to Dream with Open Eyes

Having Visionary Resolve and the Courage to Act

By George Belsky, Blue Courage/Purple Resolve Master Educator

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it...

In the Midnight Hour…

(with Apologies to Wilson Pickett)

By George Belsky, Jr.

I was working a midnight tour.  I was relatively new to the department having just completed a comparative compliance academy and field training.  It was not my first night on this shift, but I was still very new to the squad, the city, and my patrol zone.  It was 0-Dark-30 and cold, I had the...