General Questions
1. What are the four attributes of a Rough Rider Leader? What have you done in your school or work experiences that indicate you may have some Rough Rider Leadership attributes? (Use the list of specific sub-points under each of the four attributes.)
2. What similarities (personal traits and professional characteristics) do you find in the seven North Dakota leaders on the DVD?
Love, adored and all have some sort of a deep admiration and respect for Theodore Roosevelt. Each individual is dissecting Roosevelt’s leadership styles and explaining them in extreme details. They all to an extend explain how Roosevelt inspired their lives to strive for better achievement and how he had such an impact on North Dakota. All individuals grew up in North Dakota …show more content…
Roosevelt lost many friends, family and elections due to his competitive nature. N. Dakota Leader Joel Bleth took a risk of opening a business with long time childhood friend as a partner and then the business crashed due to oil prices going down. Teddy had a lack of military background which lead to the battle of Cuba where he almost died because he was the only man on a horse and had on a blue-polka dotted bandana but after the battle he became an idealized hero. Roosevelt took risks like this to show he was a leader, all of the N. Dakota leaders did also act on their beliefs where some failed but on other occasions did succeed.
4. Give some examples of how Theodore Roosevelt personified the four leadership attributes using some of the sub points for each attribute.
5. What would you say were the two or three most difficult times in the life of Theodore Roosevelt? How did he respond to the challenge each time? How does that response illustrate the four