Savage's Differences In The Movie Leadership
Leadership is an essential skill for military officers. It allows them to overcome limited resources by using motivation and courage. The most important thing to successful military command is the focus on the people, because it makes it possible to achieve the mission and military is always about teamwork. To understand this, I will explain the differences between the two styles of leadership. The movie was about the 918th Bomber Group in World War II. This military unit changed, from low morale and ineffective to a team of highly motivated individuals, after a new commander arrived. The leadership style made the difference between Col. Davenport and Brig. Gen. Savage. Both of them had a different concept of the maximum effort and focus
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Gen Savage was a strict man and he decided that first he will recover the discipline of all the Airmen in the group. The pilots displayed their initial resistance to change by submitting requests for transfer shortly after Brig. Gen. Savage’s assumption of command. The leadership of Col Davenport created a comfort zone that the new commander wanted it to disappear, using the phrase “consider yourself already dead.” By doing this, he was putting the missions as the focus and the lives of the Airmen second. With the same team, Brig. Gen. Savage got the first success and reduced the casualties after every sortie. He increased the morale in the group, making the entire unit involved with the missions. Furthermore, Savage considered group integrity as one of the core values of the 918th Bomber Group related to safety during the flights.
Leadership plays an important role in establishing vision and goals. For this group, the challenge was the most important motivation, setting the goal higher and higher until the Joint Staff assigned the most important targets to them. While Davenport was worried about surviving, Savage wanted to hit the main bulls and help win the war. The first was a goal too low, the second one implied higher risk with high stress. It was Savage’s concept of maximum
Gen Savage was a strict man and he decided that first he will recover the discipline of all the Airmen in the group. The pilots displayed their initial resistance to change by submitting requests for transfer shortly after Brig. Gen. Savage’s assumption of command. The leadership of Col Davenport created a comfort zone that the new commander wanted it to disappear, using the phrase “consider yourself already dead.” By doing this, he was putting the missions as the focus and the lives of the Airmen second. With the same team, Brig. Gen. Savage got the first success and reduced the casualties after every sortie. He increased the morale in the group, making the entire unit involved with the missions. Furthermore, Savage considered group integrity as one of the core values of the 918th Bomber Group related to safety during the flights.
Leadership plays an important role in establishing vision and goals. For this group, the challenge was the most important motivation, setting the goal higher and higher until the Joint Staff assigned the most important targets to them. While Davenport was worried about surviving, Savage wanted to hit the main bulls and help win the war. The first was a goal too low, the second one implied higher risk with high stress. It was Savage’s concept of maximum