What Does Leadership Matters

In my opinion, leadership does matters. I believe a goal or mission without leadership would be a snake without its head. Without the head making decisions, the body of the snake will spasm until its inevitable death. Leadership is needed to make decisions when others will not. I have experienced several situations when there was no leadership. The situation I would like to share is, when I was in the Marine Corps. Our platoon was doing a mock man down mission. We had to get an injured Marine to the helicopter in the landing zone. There was a catch though; our leaders were killed in the blast. Many Marines were trying to gain control of the situation while others were panicking. We failed the mission and as Marines we pride ourselves on mission