The missing piece of nims: Teaching incident commanders how to function in the edge of chaos

Homeland Security Affairs

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Renaud, Cynthia ^a  

^a Long Beach Police Department   (United States)

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References (34)

1. Sources reviewed for critiques of 9/11 and subsequent government actions based on those critiques include Thomas H. Kean, Chair, The 9/11 Commission Report (New York: Norton, 2004)
2. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Homeland Security Council, National Strategy for Homeland Security (Washington, DC: DHS, July 2002)
3. DHS Homeland Security Council, National Strategy for Homeland Security (Washington, DC: DHS, October 2007)
4. DHS, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 (Washington, DC: 2003)
5. DHS, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8 (Washington, DC: 2003)
6. and DHS, National Response Plan (Washington, DC: DHS, 2004).
7. DHS, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5, 1.
8. DHS, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8, 1.
9. DHS, National Incident Management System, 4-11.
10. Mike Hillmann (retired deputy chief of police, Los Angeles Police Department; retired assistant sheriff, Orange County Sheriff's Department), in discussion with the author, November 2010.
11. Steven Nottingham (lieutenant, Long Beach Police Department), in discussion with the author, January 2010.
12. David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone, "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making," Harvard Business Review (2007): 68-76.
13. Christopher Bellavita, "Changing Homeland Security: Shape Patterns, Not Programs," Homeland Security Affairs 2, article 5 (October 2006): 5.
14. Snowden and Boone, "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making," 71.
15. Bellavita, "Changing Homeland Security: Shape Patterns, Not Programs," 5.
16. Sid Heal, Sound Doctrine. Tactical Primer (New York: Lantern Books, 2000), 133.
17. Cynthia Renaud, Making Sense in the Edge of Chaos: A Framework for Effective Initial Response Efforts to Large-Scale Incidents (master's thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, 2010).
18. Mitchell M. Waldrop, Complexity. The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1992).
19. Kean, et al., The 9/11 Commission Report, 315.
20. Amanda Ripley, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why (New York: Crown, 2008), 93.
21. Mike Hillmann, Incident Command Challenges (PowerPoint presentation, n.d.).
22. Karl Weick, Sensemaking in Organizations (USA: Sage, 1995), 14.
23. Oxford English Dictionary, (USA: Oxford University Press, 1971), 1716.
24. Mike Hillmann, In Extremis Decision Making-Defining the Critical Incident (PowerPoint presentation, n.d.), quoting Colonel Thomas A. Kolditz, professor and head of Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at U.S. Military Academy, West Point.
25. Karl Weick, "The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster," Administrative Science Quarterly 38 (1993): 639.
26. Gary Klein, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998), 113.
27. Patti Anklam, Net Work. A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World (Oxford, UK: Elsevier Inc., 2007), 14-15.
28. Arjen Boin et al, The Politics of Crisis Management. Public Leadership Under Pressure (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 35.
29. Mike Hillmann, Multi-Assault Counter Terrorist Action Capabilities (PowerPoint presentation given at the FBI National Academy Associates 2010 Annual Training Conference), 4.
30. Lieutenant Steve Nottingham, Long Beach Police Department. Course Curricula for Advanced Officer Training Class, (1999-2001).
31. Boin, et al, The Politics of Crisis Management, 63.
32. Heal, Tactical Primer, 39.
33. Kean, et al., The 9/11 Commission Report, 314.
34. Heal, Tactical Primer, 39.