Leadership in a time of complexity

IntroductionA true and effective loss leader reacts to critical incidents especially in times of stressand challenge. He sets an illustration and is clear about the rules of the road and then adheres to them along the journey. Clarity, consensus and intensity ar three essential factors for aligning values of leaders with those of the followers. The importance of dual-lane values is that they channel and focus piles energies and commitments.Leadership during a CrisisLeadership in critical times was clearly seen in the Hurricane Katrina which bang the Gulf Coast. The U.S. government agencies tasked with relief and rehabilitation operations seem to stay put in limbo. One of which is Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which reportedly delivered a mere 15 percent of the travel trailers and prompt homes that it in haste purchased for temporary housing. The Chicago Tribune reported that FEMA ordered 125,000 travel trailers or mobile homes after Katrina struck in order to pr ovide housing for the estimated 600,000 people who have been displaced by that storm and Hurricane Rita, which hit eastern Texas and western lanthanum three weeks later. However, FEMA was only able to install 18,834 travel trailers in lah and Mississippi and 494 more mobile homes in the two states.1Repercussions of the HurricaneThere were as well as reports that a year before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, information technology utilized by the Homeland Security Department to support tragedy management was so disconnected and inadequate that it was necessary for employees to develop ad hoc alternatives to supplement them. This was revealed by DHS inspector general in a gibelike report.ConclusionThus, to point our fingers to a single cause or leading may be overly simplistic. The slow and inefficient disaster reaction may properly be viewed as the effect of various factors, including, only when not exclusively, the inadequacies of the FEMA officials.2 All these spread far and wide, up to the very natural elevation of the government and down to the local government officials. It is sad that there was no strong leadership to have prevented this disaster. In sum, we conclude that leaders do not achieve success by themselves. Exemplary leaders prosecute the support and assistance of all those who must make the project work. They involve, in some way, those who must live with the results, and they make it possible for others to do safe(p) work.BIBLIOGRAPHYMartin, A. Hitches Show in FEMA Trailer Plan. The Chicago Tribune.Retrieved May 19. 2007 at memo FEMA had problems before Katrina. USA Today.Retrieved May 19. 2007 athttp//www.usatoday.com/ intelligence information/ majuscule/executive/2005-10-17-fema-memos_x.htm1 Martin, A. Hitches Show in FEMA Trailer Plan. The Chicago Tribune.Retrieved May 19. 2007 athttp//www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0511060220nov06,1,4411564.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed 2 Memo FEMA had problems before Kat rina. USA Today.Retrieved May 19. 2007 athttp//www.usatoday.com/news/washington/executive/2005-10-17-fema-memos_x.htm