Effective Individual And Situational Leadership In Apollo 13

The film Apollo 13, portrayed many organizational behavior and leadership skills beginning to end. The success of leadership can be seen from the two key teams involved in the mission. The flight director at NASA, Gene Kranz was in charge of the right team in the mission control, and space crew commander Jim Lovell, with his extensive experience being an active leader to his team in space. The two leaders of the film, showed effective individual and situational leadership skills as they managed the mission and crises. While in space, Jim encouraged team collaboration, where the team was effectively engaged, and Kranz similarly did the same with his team. Kranz was completely in charge of mission control, and displayed authoritarian leadership