APOLLO 13
The actual account happened on 10th April where some scientists boarded to one of the main historic missions in the NASA history. This was three days later on 13th. The Apollo 13 mission was acting on the routine commotion on the oxygen tanks. This made them experience a dreadful breakdown of electrical and they were forced to make an emergency resend operation (Brooks, 2012, p1). The movie has continued to account to two phrases where it creates the daily life vocabularies where Jim Lovell states that there is a problem in Houston and Gene Kranz states that failure is not a choice. As a leader, Gene who is the flight controller for the NASA during their mission in Apollo 13, motivates the other workers and plans for a careful schedule, excellent leadership skills and was also able to well represent the duties affiance among his team of the NASA experts (Mason & Lovell, 1995, p13).
As a strong leader, Gene respects the decision and the skills of each expert amid his team. The controllers had to find a way and an complex non-planned decision for powering the command task back up in the groundwork of the re-entry and its revisiting it as many times so as to lead up to the spacelab return on the earth. Each team member was responsible to better each of their tasks where each of each expert’s steps was implemented well leading to the perfect which was a failure in success of their mission (Pierce, 2005, p44). Though Gene showed patience and attentiveness, the other team members were not aware that no one is perfect particularly with tasks based on instinctive make of choices. As the movie goes on, problems and other possible challenges continues to increase and this makes Gene loose his calmness. This is revealed by an explosion that is based on gaining the startup of the electrical process (Kluger & Howard, 1995, p98).
The group had no other experience based on the kind of situation and had no plan of it; Gene had to develop his learning curve to his other team mates so as to have an efficient electrical startup process (Houston & Heflin, 2015, p21). According to the leadership traits that are shown by Gene, those who are involved in the leadership can be referred to as leaders while those who are controlled by the leader can be called his followers, Both the leader and his followers engage in the leadership process and they are closely connected (Northouse, 2010,p15). Even though they have the connection, the leader is the one who establishes the relationship, creates the communication relations and carries the burden of sustaining their connection.
A leader who also shows the perfect personality acts as a protagonist ideal for his supporters to outdo. The supporters are talented to recognize together with their frontrunner and their mission (Yukl, 2012, p212). In times of any challenge, the leader is one counted responsible for making the right decision about their mission. Leaders who show personality use imagery and communicate in a vision that shows a go ahead thus creating the emotional connection with the followers (Day & Antonakis, 2012, p102). Gene portrays his intelligence when he shows his perfect influence and personality in the challenging times of their mission. Many people in the mission control thought that the astronauts were hopeless where Gene proofed his intelligence and kept his positive outlook in the condition (Aber, 1995, p17).
He made many challenging choices but when he spoke with intelligence, his followers kept a deep trust in him (Gene 2009, p13). Having much negativity from his followers and the other people around, Gene showed self-confidence as he talked with encouragement, imagery and body language that they needed in their condition (Hurson, 2008, p3). In Apollo 13, Gene acts with determination when he is charged with the task to motivate his residents to make a plan so that they would all get the crew back to the earth securely. To many of the other team members, it seemed as a more challenging situation. Gene had a main challenge of motivating his mission control team workers with optimism and confidence that at the end there would be a solution and all that had to be worked out (Dethloff, 2012, 97).
Due to the fact that a leader is a person who is always anxious about his future and not his past, Gene shows his integrity by taking his responsibility of understanding what other people told him and thinking about their decisions where he only focused on how he could make the team safe and continue with his mission (Floyd, 2010, p16). As the residents lost the oxygen, Gene commanded them to keep cool and solve the issue at hand. Gene reveals this by thinking cool where his voice does not show any betrayal of any fear.
His integrity is shown as he controlled himself and remained in the challenging situation. He also demonstrates his sociability when he calls for the residents to think creatively so as to find solutions to the harsh electrical problems. In the movie, the mission control is given the responsibility to find a solution to the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the space. This makes Gene challenge his co-workers to use their resources awareness to solve the problem (Chaikin, 2009, p86).
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