Apollo 13: Leadership: Five Phases For Leadership

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Introduction: In preparation for a leadership position, one must gain additional knowledge as it pertains to different situations, interactions with employees, and within the organization. This essay will focus on four areas; organizational life style, the readiness of employees in different situations as well as gain an understanding of characteristics associated with leadership, and explain the need to consider all that is involved in leadership when in a leadership role. Overview: In the movie Apollo 13, the support team of people working in Houston’s Mission Control was presented with the task in solving a life threating catastrophic event in space with the hope of retuning the crew back to earth safely. In directing the support team to …show more content…

This essay presents five separate phases with each phase offering different challenges for leadership. According to Boulgarides and Cohen the five phases include Innovation, Transition, Growth, Consolidation and Adaptation. The life cycle affect the leadership approach and calls upon different leadership styles throughout each phase. Leadership style is defined as “the relatively consistent pattern of behavior that characterizes a leader” Boulgarides, J. D., & Cohen, W. A. (2001). According to Northouse there are four distinct leadership styles; directing, coaching, supporting and delegating. Each style provides different levels of directive behaviors and supportive behaviors which provide communication, level of comfort for social and emotional support. Northouse, P. G. …show more content…

Each style; Authoritarian/Autocratic, Participative/Democratic, and Delegative Leadership offer time and place applications. The Democratic approach appears to be the most effective approach as the leader is an active participant. Cherry, K. (2016, October 5). Looking more into a leader as a person, Forbes examined qualities that make a great leader highlighting “honesty” as the number one quality of a leader. Additional qualities included communication, positive attitude, and ability to make hard decisions round out the list of essential qualities Prive, T.

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