Emerging Leaders: Answers in Consideration of Leadership Style

Table of Contents
Ordinary Person, Extraordinary Results 3
Leadership Characteristics 5
Servant Leadership 6
Integrated Leadership Framework 7
Integrated Leadership Framework in Action 8
Risk-Taking Challenges 9
Conclusion and Learnings 10
Endnotes and References: 12

Ordinary Person, Extraordinary Results
1. Write a leadership story about an ordinary person who achieved extraordinary results. Illustrate how you believe leadership emerged in this person’s actions. This person can be a manager, a supervisor, or a leader in your organization or community.
It was an ordinary Tuesday when I went to school. At about 10:30 my teacher was called from the room. She came back to tell us that New York’s Twin Towers were hit by a Jumbo Jet, and that one had collapsed. Over the years, I’ve put together the role my Uncle played that day. Most of this is from my Aunt; my Uncle only talks a little about that day, I think, because he is a humble man.

My Uncle works for a law firm downtown and across from the World Trade Center. On his way to work, his train was stopped at the subway station before his normal stop at the World Trade Center. The train was evacuated, and, when he got to ground level, he saw the Twin Towers smoldering and hundreds of people heading away from the site, going uptown. He waited a while, and after he saw the first Tower fall. Now people were fleeing. He decided to head uptown as well and go to the mid-town office to offer any help he could.

When he got to that office, he learned that the Managing Director was out of town, and the Deputy Director could not be located. Something told him no one was in charge, so he started directing the staff, mostly clerical and administrative people. He told them he was taking over the large conference room as a “Command Center,” and he told them to track down the head of Human Resources (HR), the Head of Information Technology (IT), and the Chief Operating Officer (COO). He then asked them who in the company had a police, firefighting, or medical background. He asked who had been in the military.
Less than an hour later, he had a team assembled, and he led the team as they filled the large white

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