Leadership Analysis Of Apollo 13: Leadership In The Movie

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Introduction:
On 10th of April John Swigert, Fred Haise and James Lovell boarded the most important operation of NASA history. After Three days on 13th of April while carrying out a daily stir on the Oxygen supply tanks, the mission of “Apollo 13” underwent a dreadful electrical failure and was enforced to execute an emergency homecoming mission. The film has given us two sayings to our day to day cultural language, Houston we have a problem! Said by Jim Lovell, and Failure is not an option! Expressed by Gene Kranz.

Movie Analysis:
The purpose the (Apollo 13) task had been known to be a successful disappointment …show more content…

To make this decision he uses certain questions from the diagnostic procedure, and must consider by shutting these down they lose the ability to land on the moon, altering the entire mission. The most important question is how important is the technical quality of the decision? To make good on this analysis, he charges his team with the job of calling in all employees who designed or built “any button” on the Apollo spacecraft, (Bono, Ilies, 2006). He then can make a favorable decision and trusts that shutting down the cells could have a positive effect. The outcome is negative, but it still shows how important trust and confidence is in leader-member relations. Otherwise, precious time would be spent deliberating on functional hierarchy and who is the most qualified to make the decision.
Leadership Lessons morals from the movie:
Highlight and Communicate: The most important thing for NASA was to save the team. The moon landing mission was aborted in few minutes of the first explosion. And everybody on the massive NASA crew agreed on it.
Practice Takes Practice: There’s no other way of actually doing something unless you practice it more and more. It’s the top preparation for disaster. NASA’s persons were in moon landing industry for 10 years when the explosion happened onboard Apollo

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