Group C
Keerati Trantien
Kewalee Auwattanasombut
Olav Emblem
Richard Diring
Rozana Sahami
National University
Dr. Iraj Mahdavi
July 25, 2015
Execution and Results in a Crisis Situation
1. In the Kirkpatrick and Shane article, several leaders are mentioned including President George W. Bush, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, and FEMA Director Michael D. Brown. Briefly evaluate each of these leaders on their overall effectiveness at Managing Execution and Driving for Results.
Manage Execution is the way for a manager to designate, cooperate, monitor, and keep up the assignment (Quinn, 2007). Drive for results is the way to achieve the goal with others and through others (Quinn, 2007). Mr. Brown is the one who has to organize and cooperate with Homeland Security and the White house. However, when the hurricane was coming, the storm interrupted the communication signal in the area. Moreover, The Media reports was misinterpret from the local authorities while Mr. Brown had no officer active in that time, and he knew about evacuation from the media. He also admitted his mistake which was waiting until August 30 before he asked the White house to take action. Therefore, Mr. Brown was lacked of preparation during the calm time before the hurricane arrived. He did not have good communication and cooperation system enough to operate and response in the critical time. He was not good at manage execution and drive for results. After the hurricane there were several problems such as looting and violence. President Bush did not active enough, and he had no enough efficient staff under his control during the time. The force did arrive to take control the situation five day later after the looting and violence in New Orleans. President Bush did not keep up after the hurricane. Therefore, President Bush was lacked of monitor and tracking work. He did not use his officer well enough to take
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