Summary Of Ender Wiggins At Battle School

Andrew “Ender” Wiggins was chosen at the six years old to go to Battle School, a school where children were taught small units tactics and leadership to learn to one day become leaders in the military. Over the course of the four years that Ender was at Battle School, he was molded by his instructors and peers to be the best leader that Earth had ever known. Ender appears to have a situational leadership style. The Center for Association Leadership describes situational leading as “Links behavior with group’s readiness” and “Includes being directing and supportive, while empowering and coaching”. Situational leaders are able to change their plans based on the situation at hand. They are able to adapt their plans to fit the needs of any given team and handle any variables that are thrown at them. …show more content…
At Battle School, Ender thrived in the environment that Colonel Graff threw him in. As soon as Ender was given his own army he saw that he had been given the collective runts of the litter. In a school where physical prowess and experience meant everything to the instructors and students, he had been given the youngest, smallest students in the school. Despite these apparent setbacks, Ender molded his army into one that went undefeated. The other army leaders had it drilled into their heads that, during matches in the Battle Room, they had to use precise mass formations to accomplish their objectives. Ender saw the flaws with this and broke his army up into separate toons that would be able to operate independently but working towards the same objectives as a