Fenlason Leadership Style

Completing assigned tasks and set goals is always the priority to the overall success of a platoons intended mission as well as increasing longevity of the life and health of all soldiers in the squadron. “To accomplish given task, an organizations’ leader and or leaders must efficiently and effectively carry out the primary management functions of decision making, supervising, and making the most of an organization manpower and allocated resources (Mintzberg, 1979). “In doing so leaders can adopt and adjust specific styles of leadership to assist in mission completion. This book report will compare and contrast the leadership styles and characteristics of SFC Rob Gallagher and SFC Jeff Fenlason from authors Jim Fredericks’ “Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death”, explaining how their similar but different styles of leadership helped and or hindered their units’ mission failures and success.
To begin, the leadership styles identified by both SFC Rob Gallagher and SFC Jeff Fenlason is that of a …show more content…
“You gotta break them down before you build them back up” approach of SFC Fenlason further exposed his non-combat experience to do so in the middle of a combat zone added another obstacle for he and the platoon (Frederick, 2010). His version of the transformational leadership style consisted of day one basic training leadership different from SFC Gallagher approached of show and see. This approach did not embrace es spri de corps among the platoon that combined with what the platoon was already experiencing (failed missions, murder accusations and failed relationship with locals) an increased lost faith from higher command in SFC Fenlason was not the right pick for the job resulted in yet another hindrance for the Black Heart