The Leadership Qualities Of Ender's Game By Orson Card

The Leadership Qualities of Ender Wiggin Ender’s Game by Orson Card has been a popular science fiction novel for the past three decades. Since its inception the book has claimed two highly respected awards. In addition it has even become a highly recommended reading material for several military education facilities for new officers. This novel highlights four basic qualities that make up the basis of a good commanding officer. The first quality needed for a leader to succeed is gaining the trust of all his subordinates under his command. The second would be to know how to use them wisely during combat. Third, he would need to know when and how hard he should push his men, and last one, he need to know the defining line between friendships and being their commanding officer. By outlining these four major qualities, Orson Card shows how these leadership qualities are successful used in leading a team to victory. The first major quality needed to successfully lead a team …show more content…
If Ender’s people could not trust his judgment then he would not be able to lead them to victory. The quality he learned early on at Battle School helped him to succeed. He made it a point to know absolutely everything about those that were placed under his command, “Dink, who deftly carried out instructions but was slow to improvise; Bean, who couldn’t control large groups of ships effectively but could use a few like a scalpel, reacting beautifully to anything the computer threw at him; Alai, who was almost as good a strategist as Ender and could be entrusted to do well with half a fleet and only vague instruction … The better Ender knew them, the faster he could deploy them, the better he could use them” (page 274). By knowing their functions, Ender Wiggin was able to win simulation after simulation. Even if there were mistakes, he knew and trusted his team to compensate and push