Leadership during a crisis can often be difficult to act upon. This role becomes difficult to a person who is not used to handling crises or even to a person who is afraid of leadership. Here are a few pointers for a way a leader should typically act during a crisis:
1. Taking their time to figure out what is going on.
2. Act promptly, not horrified.
3. Manage expectations.
4. Demonstrate control.
5. Keep loose.
6. Always keep perspective.
In most crises the one who is typically in the leadership role is the Mayor. The Mayor usually has his own team that he appoints to help him with managing and taking care of the crisis with him. These people are usually his assistants, police officers, firefighters, everyone in the different departments …show more content…
When this crisis event happened President George W. Bush was in the leadership role to handle this crisis with the federal government 's help. Now what went wrong was the leader did not make a plan for the people who lost everything in the storm that has to do with financial needs. There was no co-ordination between local, state and federal authorities; there was a chaotic evacuation plan; failure to fund the right agencies; having a delay in deploying men and the necessary resources in materials. With the lack of leadership, it gave people less hope during that time of a national tragedy and it also left many people with no backup plan to figure out how they were going to survive while everything was being restored. Due to the storm it had left people laid-off and lost of life savings. According to The Guardian, President Bush willingly did not cut his holiday short to immediately respond to the tragedy that was happening. They also felt that he showed no reassurance and comfort to the American people. To the public that showed a lack of leadership skills because it showed them that president bush was being neglectful to his people. People felt that he did not have a quite understanding the situation and did not have a prepared response. Due to the Bush’s lack of attention towards the crisis, the guardian states “It took five days for a mass relief effort it break through to New Orleans.” …show more content…
Haley Barbour was one of the few people that believed in President Bush’s decisions during the crisis. Haley Barbour is the Governor of Mississippi that wrote a book called America’s Great Storm: Leading Through Hurricane Katrina. Barbour did an interview with National Geographic mainly about why did he remain loyal to President Bush while everyone was against his judgment. His reply to why he stayed loyal to President Bush he said, “I understood that for the next several years Mississippi was going to have to be partners with the federal government. My Momma taught me: "Praise in public; criticize in private." And that’s the way I’ve tried to run my political relationships” (Worrall, National Geographic). Barbour was more concerned about having connections with the federal government to understand or pay attention to how the victims were really feeling about the national
1. Taking their time to figure out what is going on.
2. Act promptly, not horrified.
3. Manage expectations.
4. Demonstrate control.
5. Keep loose.
6. Always keep perspective.
In most crises the one who is typically in the leadership role is the Mayor. The Mayor usually has his own team that he appoints to help him with managing and taking care of the crisis with him. These people are usually his assistants, police officers, firefighters, everyone in the different departments …show more content…
When this crisis event happened President George W. Bush was in the leadership role to handle this crisis with the federal government 's help. Now what went wrong was the leader did not make a plan for the people who lost everything in the storm that has to do with financial needs. There was no co-ordination between local, state and federal authorities; there was a chaotic evacuation plan; failure to fund the right agencies; having a delay in deploying men and the necessary resources in materials. With the lack of leadership, it gave people less hope during that time of a national tragedy and it also left many people with no backup plan to figure out how they were going to survive while everything was being restored. Due to the storm it had left people laid-off and lost of life savings. According to The Guardian, President Bush willingly did not cut his holiday short to immediately respond to the tragedy that was happening. They also felt that he showed no reassurance and comfort to the American people. To the public that showed a lack of leadership skills because it showed them that president bush was being neglectful to his people. People felt that he did not have a quite understanding the situation and did not have a prepared response. Due to the Bush’s lack of attention towards the crisis, the guardian states “It took five days for a mass relief effort it break through to New Orleans.” …show more content…
Haley Barbour was one of the few people that believed in President Bush’s decisions during the crisis. Haley Barbour is the Governor of Mississippi that wrote a book called America’s Great Storm: Leading Through Hurricane Katrina. Barbour did an interview with National Geographic mainly about why did he remain loyal to President Bush while everyone was against his judgment. His reply to why he stayed loyal to President Bush he said, “I understood that for the next several years Mississippi was going to have to be partners with the federal government. My Momma taught me: "Praise in public; criticize in private." And that’s the way I’ve tried to run my political relationships” (Worrall, National Geographic). Barbour was more concerned about having connections with the federal government to understand or pay attention to how the victims were really feeling about the national