Visionary Leader
I am MSgt Bowen and I am here to talk to you about a man that I believe encompasses everything that defines a visionary leader, a leader who displayed all four “I” of FRL, as a matter of fact when you look up transformational leader his imagine should be posted right under the heading. The man to whom I am referring was a member of what is considered the “greatest generation”. At this point I’m sure you have several names bouncing around in your head so I’ll save you from your suffering. The gentleman I am talking about is none other than Dwight D. Eisenhower. I am going to discuss some reasons why I think he was a visionary leader, and my personal relevance as a visionary leader.
From early on Ike was seen as a leader. According to an article released by the …show more content…
This was never more evident than it was during WWII when he commanded civilian soldiers, regular army and as Supreme Commander over the Europe forces. He immediately realized his citizen soldiers were not trained or equipped to interoperate with the regular army. So what did he do, he involved his supporting commanders using intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration to get ideas from each unit commander on how we could best go about getting the citizen soldier trained and up to speed with the regular army. This also ties into diversity as each unit and commander had different capabilities as well as unique strengths. This also touches on team building, particularly collaborative relationships and the conceptual approach were the commanders were presented with a problem and asked for ideas on how to get to a common goal. It was said that during the planning of Operation Overlord that, “many issues needed his talents to reconcile and smooth out differences of opinion between services or between the two principal nations or both” (Kinnard D. 2002, pg 43). He knew he needed diversity to strike the
I am MSgt Bowen and I am here to talk to you about a man that I believe encompasses everything that defines a visionary leader, a leader who displayed all four “I” of FRL, as a matter of fact when you look up transformational leader his imagine should be posted right under the heading. The man to whom I am referring was a member of what is considered the “greatest generation”. At this point I’m sure you have several names bouncing around in your head so I’ll save you from your suffering. The gentleman I am talking about is none other than Dwight D. Eisenhower. I am going to discuss some reasons why I think he was a visionary leader, and my personal relevance as a visionary leader.
From early on Ike was seen as a leader. According to an article released by the …show more content…
This was never more evident than it was during WWII when he commanded civilian soldiers, regular army and as Supreme Commander over the Europe forces. He immediately realized his citizen soldiers were not trained or equipped to interoperate with the regular army. So what did he do, he involved his supporting commanders using intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration to get ideas from each unit commander on how we could best go about getting the citizen soldier trained and up to speed with the regular army. This also ties into diversity as each unit and commander had different capabilities as well as unique strengths. This also touches on team building, particularly collaborative relationships and the conceptual approach were the commanders were presented with a problem and asked for ideas on how to get to a common goal. It was said that during the planning of Operation Overlord that, “many issues needed his talents to reconcile and smooth out differences of opinion between services or between the two principal nations or both” (Kinnard D. 2002, pg 43). He knew he needed diversity to strike the