Rough Rider Leadership Essay
Study Guide, Rough Rider Leadership
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…
and made successful careers all over the country just like Theodore Roosevelt. Everyone is giving advice on what it takes to be successful and taking the right steps towards the right directions in life. All compare Roosevelt to personal life events. Comparing Roosevelt to their own lives. Roosevelt and the North Dakota Leaders all took risk, which led them to where they are today.
3. Which of the people interviewed on the DVD do you think most closely resembles the traits of Theodore Roosevelt? Why?
Interview-Specific Questions
1. Why does Mike Armstrong think that reading about TR helped him (Armstrong) understand himself? What themes, or life experiences, does Armstrong think he shares with Roosevelt?
2. Coach Biesiot says that TR “warmed his hands in the fire of life.” What does he mean? How does TR’s statement on page 15 (“It is not the critic…”) compare to what a college coach, like Hank Biesiot, does for a vocation?
3. Joel Bleth did something to inspire his workers when his company was having a difficult time. What did he do? How successful was it? What is the significance of his statement “We like water”? What is Bleth’s interest in water?
4. What does Carla Christofferson mean by “Fake it until you make it”? How did she go from a small North Dakota town to being a well-known professional in Los Angeles?
What Carla means is she likes to pretend that certain challenges don’t exist by using her phrase “Fake it until you make it”. Carla overcame obstacles and took risks which she found scary but continually pushed herself, so that every time she faced a new challenge it wasn’t as scary as the one she faced before. She became a professional by taking those scary risks and overcoming them and using them as strengths. Carla also believes that some of her success comes from people who were willing to extend a helping hand, which in turn made her want to help others and staying true to her values.
5. What is Sheila Schafer’s role in continuing the message of Theodore Roosevelt? What was her husband’s role? Why does he say he was the “luckiest man”?
Sheila Schafer wants to continue keeping Theodore Roosevelt’s message alive of conservation and preserving what is beautiful. Harold Schafer restored the little town of Medora; he sold his gold sill business and moved all of his employees to save Medora. Harold believed that he would never ask a person to do something, if he himself wouldn’t do it. The reason Harold thought he was the “luckiest man” was because he thought of an idea that might work and he would act on it and not contemplate it.
6. Why does Beth Strube believe she is a leader? What is her approach to leadership? To whom does she credit her success?
Beth Strube believes she is a leader by showing a lot of integrity, honesty, treating people well and because she knew she could do better, she took control and did everything on her own and took risks that lead her to her successful business. Some of Beth’s approach to leadership is actually working besides her employees for awhile to figure out where each individual will fit best in her company. It is important to Beth that to truly be successful you must get along with people. Beth credits her mother for her success because she assisted her. She also believes it is alright for her staff to see her make mistakes. You must take risk, in order to become successful. Customers and her staff are the most important attribute to her business.
7. Clay Jenkinson says, “TR was perhaps the best-prepared president in U.S history (because he was) “… profoundly well educated.” What can you say about TR’s formal education, as well as his informal education, that best supports Jenkinson’s claim?
8. Select two of the North Dakota leaders that were interviewed and tell how they demonstrate each of the Roughrider Leader attributes.
TR Questions
1. What does TR think is the “right stuff” of a worthy citizen?
2. As you read TR’s life experiences in pages 11-15, how would you say his character was shaped?
3. Leaders do not always succeed in every venture. What did TR fail at? What did some of the North Dakota leaders fail at (or nearly fail) in their respective fields?
Personality wise Roosevelt was soot out to be bullish, which in many eyes can be considered a trait of weakness, he also had strong opinions that would clash with his superiors.
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
attributes?
Theodore Roosevelt was very sick and asthmatic as a child but he overcame that obstacle by sheer determination and Teddy had physical limitations like a weak heart but that didn’t stop him from climbing the Matterhorn and achieving other goals. When Roosevelt believed he could do something, he simply did them and even against doctors orders. Inspire, Challenge, Act and Communicate is what drove Theodore Roosevelt in his attributes. These attributes where in Roosevelt and in all the North Dakota Leaders, this is what they all used to get ahead of the game and become successful in their endeavors.
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…
and made successful careers all over the country just like Theodore Roosevelt. Everyone is giving advice on what it takes to be successful and taking the right steps towards the right directions in life. All compare Roosevelt to personal life events. Comparing Roosevelt to their own lives. Roosevelt and the North Dakota Leaders all took risk, which led them to where they are today.
3. Which of the people interviewed on the DVD do you think most closely resembles the traits of Theodore Roosevelt? Why?
Interview-Specific Questions
1. Why does Mike Armstrong think that reading about TR helped him (Armstrong) understand himself? What themes, or life experiences, does Armstrong think he shares with Roosevelt?
2. Coach Biesiot says that TR “warmed his hands in the fire of life.” What does he mean? How does TR’s statement on page 15 (“It is not the critic…”) compare to what a college coach, like Hank Biesiot, does for a vocation?
3. Joel Bleth did something to inspire his workers when his company was having a difficult time. What did he do? How successful was it? What is the significance of his statement “We like water”? What is Bleth’s interest in water?
4. What does Carla Christofferson mean by “Fake it until you make it”? How did she go from a small North Dakota town to being a well-known professional in Los Angeles?
What Carla means is she likes to pretend that certain challenges don’t exist by using her phrase “Fake it until you make it”. Carla overcame obstacles and took risks which she found scary but continually pushed herself, so that every time she faced a new challenge it wasn’t as scary as the one she faced before. She became a professional by taking those scary risks and overcoming them and using them as strengths. Carla also believes that some of her success comes from people who were willing to extend a helping hand, which in turn made her want to help others and staying true to her values.
5. What is Sheila Schafer’s role in continuing the message of Theodore Roosevelt? What was her husband’s role? Why does he say he was the “luckiest man”?
Sheila Schafer wants to continue keeping Theodore Roosevelt’s message alive of conservation and preserving what is beautiful. Harold Schafer restored the little town of Medora; he sold his gold sill business and moved all of his employees to save Medora. Harold believed that he would never ask a person to do something, if he himself wouldn’t do it. The reason Harold thought he was the “luckiest man” was because he thought of an idea that might work and he would act on it and not contemplate it.
6. Why does Beth Strube believe she is a leader? What is her approach to leadership? To whom does she credit her success?
Beth Strube believes she is a leader by showing a lot of integrity, honesty, treating people well and because she knew she could do better, she took control and did everything on her own and took risks that lead her to her successful business. Some of Beth’s approach to leadership is actually working besides her employees for awhile to figure out where each individual will fit best in her company. It is important to Beth that to truly be successful you must get along with people. Beth credits her mother for her success because she assisted her. She also believes it is alright for her staff to see her make mistakes. You must take risk, in order to become successful. Customers and her staff are the most important attribute to her business.
7. Clay Jenkinson says, “TR was perhaps the best-prepared president in U.S history (because he was) “… profoundly well educated.” What can you say about TR’s formal education, as well as his informal education, that best supports Jenkinson’s claim?
8. Select two of the North Dakota leaders that were interviewed and tell how they demonstrate each of the Roughrider Leader attributes.
TR Questions
1. What does TR think is the “right stuff” of a worthy citizen?
2. As you read TR’s life experiences in pages 11-15, how would you say his character was shaped?
3. Leaders do not always succeed in every venture. What did TR fail at? What did some of the North Dakota leaders fail at (or nearly fail) in their respective fields?
Personality wise Roosevelt was soot out to be bullish, which in many eyes can be considered a trait of weakness, he also had strong opinions that would clash with his superiors.
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
attributes?
Theodore Roosevelt was very sick and asthmatic as a child but he overcame that obstacle by sheer determination and Teddy had physical limitations like a weak heart but that didn’t stop him from climbing the Matterhorn and achieving other goals. When Roosevelt believed he could do something, he simply did them and even against doctors orders. Inspire, Challenge, Act and Communicate is what drove Theodore Roosevelt in his attributes. These attributes where in Roosevelt and in all the North Dakota Leaders, this is what they all used to get ahead of the game and become successful in their endeavors.