Was Ernest Shackelton a Good Leader?

In order to endure, one must get along with himself to prevent the self-pity that cripples the human organism, and he must also cooperate with his peers unless he wants to abandon any help he might have received from the resourceful human community around him. There it is then, Shackleton's indefatigable trait, the positive attitude that permits people to explode through obstacles by the means of cooperation of mind, body, and peers.

One thing about Ernest Shackleton is that he is a gutsy man, he went on three expeditions across the seas all the way to the Antarctic. Arguably, someone could say that one of his personalities could be described as Dauntless. Dauntless means that he is very confident in himself or even the bottom of the barrel and that he shows no fear in what he does. When he goes down to the south he encounters various different challenges to conquer and

Kamehameha was an effective leader because he also cared about his people and the land.What Kamehameha did to help the people and the land was, he put a royal monopoly on the young Sandalwood trees. This helped to protect the sandalwood trees, so that the Sandalwood would not die out. This was a new thing that was put in place after the unification. This was a good Kapu, because it would help to keep the Sandalwood trees alive and it would also protect the Hawaiians trading supply of Sandalwood because a lot of what the Hawaiians traded to foreigners was Sandalwood. The sandalwood trade was important because they got a lot of things that they never had before, from the Sandalwood Trade.

Effective Leader Essay Hawaii used to be ruled by multiple chiefs. One of the chiefs, also called ali’i, had a son named Kamehameha and received a prophecy that Kamehameha would kill all the ali’i ruling the different Hawaiian kingdoms. His parents sent him away for his safety and later he was adopted by his uncle, Kalaniopu’u. Kamehameha trained under Kekuhaupi’o and eventually took over the islands.

Unit 3 Character Analysis “Without the cranes cable holding us, we would have been tipped out into the sea. I hauled myself to the high side and the last light flight line.” That right there is bravery. Many characters might have the trait bravery.

Most known for being the first American president to be impeached, Andrew Johnson was born on December 29, 1808. He came from poverty but eventually managed to acquire a few African-American slaves. After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson served as the seventeenth president of the United States from 1867 to 1869. Johnson was a stubborn and racist president. Sadly, his legacy isn’t all that pretty. As historians like Annette Gordon-Reed, author of the book Andrew Johnson, view Andrew Johnson as the worst person who could have been president at the end of the Civil War.

Before Kamehameha was king he was a son of Keoua Kalani a chief of Kohala. After his father died Kamehameha was trained by Kekuhaupi’o and became a warrior. He learned some information of how to be a district chief. Before his uncle/father Kalani’opu’u was getting close to death he declared that Kamehameha was going to be a war god. Kamehameha made a bold move and stepped forward and presented a dead chief to the gods. Kamehameha was an effective leader because he was caring to other chiefs.

I believe that Abraham Lincoln was the stronger president because of his many strengths. He was a strong leader and he had commitment to values during his time as president. Abraham Lincoln was the president to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, to end slavery once and for all. Lincoln had to handle the civil war which couldv'e very easily made our country rip apart. Using his great leadership skills and his strong morals, as president he made the nation survive an unforgetable war.

Calvin Coolidge. A man born on Independence Day, left a legacy that lasted a lifetime. Coolidge came from a humble background and worked his way up to being President, accumulating many traits and values that distinguish him as a man and that demonstrate how he got to the place that he did. Although he had many admirable values, the value I found most important was how cautious and self-disciplined he was. Cautious is not always seen as a positive trait, but in the terms of Calvin Coolidge, he was cautious in a favorable way in which he did not waste time, was a good listener, an insightful advisor, and got things done. His had a philosophy of “don’t do” and was known as ‘Silent Cal’, a nudge at his shy and cautious demeanor. He was considered the ‘great refrainer’, and this differentiated him from other presidents of his time, because being a refrainer allowed him to get results that other men of action had wanted but couldn’t achieve. He was a skilled and effective public speaker, but in private he was a man of few words which he later explained as “The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately."

To be an obsessive person, one must have a certain subject constantly on one’s mind or routines must be followed correctly and/or on time. The benefit for the Endurance’s crew to have an obsessive man as Shackleton was that he was ready for the unexpected, and his crew’s safety was the utmost important topic for him. With Shackleton’s obsessive nature, he made a very specific routine for the men to follow; at exactly 9:00 am, breakfast was served, at 1:00 pm, lunch was served, at 4:00 pm, tea was served, and at 6:00 pm, dinner was served. Between the meals, the men did chores such as, cleaning the ship and melting ice for drinking water. Such a precise and stringent following of a routine gave the men purpose and managed to keep the men from going stir crazy. The crew’s safety was on Shackleton’s mind from the moment everyone abandoned the Endurance. Shackleton stopped all unnecessary activities that posed a risk to crew safety; for example, he stopped Macklin and Greenstreet from paddling on an ice floe like children on a raft. Shackleton also commenced unpredicted safety drills for cracking of their ice floe–which could happen at any moment. Shackleton often didn’t sleep due to the fact that he worried about all the dangerous and potentially fatal situations that he and his crew

Ernest Shackleton, a man with heart, vision and a dream. He had all the skill for success; yet never achieve the fame and fortune he desired. Looking over his life, his character and his experiences give us an insight to who he really was. I will show that he had the skills necessary to be consider one of the great leaders of his time.

One of the vital attributes to being a successful leader is effectiveness in communication. While America was being faced with one of its most challenging periods in history, the Great Depression, 32nd US president Franklin Roosevelt garnered great public popularity through open communication. President Roosevelt used his famous “fireside chats” to reassure the public during the difficult times of the recession (Corbett et al, 765). I think his radio addresses to the American public were a genius idea that put confidence back into the citizens struggling with a failed economy. Roosevelt would explain what was happening and why as well as what was being done to remedy the situation. Generally for most people in troubling or stressful times it is always calming to have more in depth information rather that the “fear of the unknown”. Effective communication is just one of the many great attributes that make Franklin Roosevelt an effective leader.

The topic of this leadership case study is Ernest Shackleton. This paper will identify the development of Shackleton's leadership skills, provide examples and reflections of his abilities, and relate how he played an essential role in one of history's greatest survival stories. This study of Shackleton's leadership is set loosely within the framework of the five practices of exemplary leadership set forth in The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner, and will focus on the benefits produced by his management of team morale and unity (13).

Shackleton also demonstrated that he was a pragmatic leader, capable of determining a vision and then executing that vision. In a sense, the vision was simple to get everybody home alive. Even that however was a big step, because many leaders would have simply accepted the idea that some sacrifices would have to be made. Shackleton instead determined that his vision would be something that the entire crew could buy into, and that with this buy-in he would be able to undertake the necessary tactical steps to ensure success. This can be seen for example with the trip to Elephant Island. This was risky, because of the conditions and also the fact that Elephant Island has no resources. However, there were a number of tough choices to be made from the point when the Endurance became stuck in the ice, and Shackleton made those choices. He never wavered from the fact that his

In what context should the Endurance expedition be analyzed? As a scientific endeavor? An entrepreneurial venture? An exercise in imperial opportunity? By what criteria should the expedition be evaluated? Given your answer to the preceding question, was it a success or a failure?