Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and Tesco Organization

Description of Assessment
Requirements: Study the
following article carefully and
complete the tasks below:
Leadership in Crisis: Ernest
Shackleton an

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
1. Shackleton's leadership characteristics....................................................................................3
Learnt in the context of contemporary business organizations in a crisis...................................4
2. Leadership style of Tesco organization...................................................................................5
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is referred as the ability of group of individuals to guide and influence the
followers and other members in group of team of organization. The crisis leadership is the
activity of responding to a business challenges as well as preventing them from happen in the
future. There are main reasons of the leadership crisis such as shortage in the leadership skills
and ability and growth complexity. This report will discuss the characteristic of Shackleton
leadership style and learnt form the leadership styles in the context of contemporary business
organization in crisis. This report will also elaborate the organizational situation by drawing on
the schools of leadership as revel recommend for improvements in performance.
TASK
1. Shackleton's leadership characteristics
He was the great leaders, and he had the most essential characteristics in the leadership
styles for become the prefect leaders. It the cautious leaders. The characteristics include the
motivation, optimistic and back breaking, freezing cold, journey across the Atlantic ocean. The
Shackleton characterize that the leaders should be motivated because it is the start of journey. It
helps the individual willing to do something and general desire which are required to fulfil the
goal and objectives (Gutmann, 2018). Keeping motivated to others helps in achieve the setting
goals and it helps in achieve the all members expedition. He was use the language of motivation.
He was the cautious leader man who never ask anyone regarding the anything. He was good at
performance and improvisation because he was not afraid about the throw away the rulebook id f
they are not working as well as he was a man for tight spot, in other words, handle the difficult
and dangerous situations. He was blessed in the people management. He was great in the
instinctive leadership styles, the instinctive leaders is admitted their mistakes because they are
quick to take responsibilities, and they desperate in built the organizational culture. The mistakes
are simply challenges for them to overcome, and they not found the opportunities to blame
someone else and points figures. The strong leaders have the good instincts and the Shackleton
were had the good instinct because he was confident in their decision-making abilities.
As a leader, Shackleton was the optimistic and positive leader because he cannot let the
worries, anxiety, sadness and anger which take made and crumble anything. The optimistic
leaders have the confidence and hopefulness regarding the successful outcomes and about the
future which are most important to manage the group of people. With the optimistic attitudes,