Captain Cook's Leadership Effectiveness
Prompt #1. Concrete Evidence: Find a specific passage (short quote and page number) in Horwitz’s book, which allows you to assess Captain Cook's leadership effectiveness. ALSO provide two or three direct references from the Kouzes and Posner textbook (with short quotes and page numbers), to show that you are combining our course material directly with the historical text at hand. Connect more than one of the Five Practices to some evidence from Cook's life.:
I think I am one of the few people in our course that thinks Captain Cook was more of an ineffective leader than an effective leader, however when it came to his influence and direction to battle scurvy, I thought his methods were very effective. Cook “encouraged them to take cold seawater baths and enforced regular cleaning of hammocks, bedding, and clothes.” (Horwitz, 2002, p. 24) I think Cook was able to model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process and enabled other to act with his influences on the crew’s hygiene habits. He modeled the way by leading by example. Everything he expected the crew to do hygiene wise, Cook did it as well. The book …show more content…
Starting with the same data. People can produce fantastically diverse results. Various perspectives on Cook appear in the book. You have one of three choices as you consider other points of view. Write about either: (A) a claim that Cook’s leadership was lousy, toxic, or ineffective; or (B) someone who acknowledges that Cook was an effective leader but still criticizes or disparages his influence in the region; or, finally, (C) a synthesis of those views from a particular writer. YOU MAY SEEK INFORMATION ELSEWHERE TO HELP YOU WITH THIS PROMPT (via JStor or other Web searches, or library resources). Provide at least one brief quote (from our PDF excerpt, or from another source) to back up your claim, and make direct reference to at least a couple of passages from the Kouzes and Posner book---again, with a brief quote and page number for
I think I am one of the few people in our course that thinks Captain Cook was more of an ineffective leader than an effective leader, however when it came to his influence and direction to battle scurvy, I thought his methods were very effective. Cook “encouraged them to take cold seawater baths and enforced regular cleaning of hammocks, bedding, and clothes.” (Horwitz, 2002, p. 24) I think Cook was able to model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process and enabled other to act with his influences on the crew’s hygiene habits. He modeled the way by leading by example. Everything he expected the crew to do hygiene wise, Cook did it as well. The book …show more content…
Starting with the same data. People can produce fantastically diverse results. Various perspectives on Cook appear in the book. You have one of three choices as you consider other points of view. Write about either: (A) a claim that Cook’s leadership was lousy, toxic, or ineffective; or (B) someone who acknowledges that Cook was an effective leader but still criticizes or disparages his influence in the region; or, finally, (C) a synthesis of those views from a particular writer. YOU MAY SEEK INFORMATION ELSEWHERE TO HELP YOU WITH THIS PROMPT (via JStor or other Web searches, or library resources). Provide at least one brief quote (from our PDF excerpt, or from another source) to back up your claim, and make direct reference to at least a couple of passages from the Kouzes and Posner book---again, with a brief quote and page number for