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Synthesis Essay – John Adams
MSgt William A. Puterbaugh
Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy John Adams This ship is going down! Leadership can be like a sinking ship and when it sinks the people are left adrift. Military units and even businesses have suffered from poor leaders who caused the ship to sink. So what makes a great leader? A leader who has the right life preserver for each situation. Visionary and ethical leadership can be considered as two life preservers, more like two life boats. Through lessons and research I have discovered distinct skills and traits leaders use to become a visionary leader, an ethical leader, or both. Over time, John Adams actions exceedingly made him a leader who had a these life …show more content…

He wrote The Declaration of Rights for the First Continental Congress that laid the grounds for The Declaration of Independence (Becker, 2015). When the Continental Congress selected him as one of five men, to work together as a team to finish the Declaration of Independence, he had the tenacity and focus to advance the vision that America should be a free nation (Cornelison & Yanak, 2004, p. 5). The advancer role is a combination of the spontaneous and normative patterns (Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education [BCEE], 2016b, p. 9). His interactions along with Thomas Jefferson, the principal author, influenced the team (Brinkley & Dyer, 2000, p. 25). He carried the team's ideas forward by communicating in the early stage of development and directing actions to finish the objective. He also accomplished this by providing inspirational motivation. Leaders who use inspirational motivation transformational leadership behavior motivate and inspire their followers via the spoken word (BCEE, 2016a, p. 11). Earlier than most of his colleagues, John Adams recognized that reconciliation with Great Britain was futile (Brinkley & Dyer, 2000, p. 25). He used his vision to promote solutions for problems American Independence would face and used spoken …show more content…

The damage was small enough I could have secured it and moved on without anyone knowing. Right away I had a competing value because avoiding trouble is important to me and I knew reporting the damage would place me in trouble. Then, eventually some worry over image started to set in. I decided to take some time. I used this time to resist my impulse to panic and drew on intellectual perseverance to relate the facts I had to face, and what I needed to do to overcome the situation. I chose to deny my personal competing value to not be in trouble and any worry over image to report the damage and start the investigation. After the investigation I had to brief my entire flight about the details and why I reported the damage. I did not realize at that moment, but I was using inspirational motivation to relate my experience to inspire others to take action on correct behaviors. Through my research and lessons, I have learned how I and others around me have traits similar to great leaders. Identifying these traits is important and key to focusing on improving my strengths and weaknesses and the strengths and weaknesses for those who I want to

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