Piran Talkington
18NOV2016
MIL 201 - MSG. Quade
Moses
When looking at Moses religiously, he is a prophet in most monotheistic religions (Abrahamic religions as well as Islam as well as Christianity and multiple other faiths). I will be referring mostly to the Christian story of Moses, from the book of Exodus in the New American Bible, as a basis for Moses’s adaptive leadership style. Moses was born into slavery in modern day Egypt. The pharaoh at the time had a decree to kill every male child at birth, because he had a thought that his throne would be taken by the generation of Hebrew slaves that were being born. Moses’s mother set him adrift in the Nile river, in a basket, in order to save his life. As Moses was floating down the river, the pharaohs daughter found …show more content…
These changes will impact your life. You may have what you think a quick fix is, like killing a soldier who is beating a slave, but in the long run you will have to change everything you ever knew and change your lifestyle. With adaptive challenges come adaptive leadership. This is when the world around you is changing. You find yourself in a completely foreign environment and things are not what they used to be. The answers that you always gave no longer work and you are forced to think on your toes, like calling in plagues in order to make the pharaoh change his mind on slavery. A leader cannot force his community to change. They must all be willing to change and be adaptive leaders/followers so that they can function as one successful unit. It doesn’t matter where you were born, how you were raised, or even the actions you took in the past. What matters is what you do in the present that will impact the shape of the future, no matter how big or small of a change that is. With the ability to be an adaptive leader, you will succeed much more than a stagnate leader who is caught in the
18NOV2016
MIL 201 - MSG. Quade
Moses
When looking at Moses religiously, he is a prophet in most monotheistic religions (Abrahamic religions as well as Islam as well as Christianity and multiple other faiths). I will be referring mostly to the Christian story of Moses, from the book of Exodus in the New American Bible, as a basis for Moses’s adaptive leadership style. Moses was born into slavery in modern day Egypt. The pharaoh at the time had a decree to kill every male child at birth, because he had a thought that his throne would be taken by the generation of Hebrew slaves that were being born. Moses’s mother set him adrift in the Nile river, in a basket, in order to save his life. As Moses was floating down the river, the pharaohs daughter found …show more content…
These changes will impact your life. You may have what you think a quick fix is, like killing a soldier who is beating a slave, but in the long run you will have to change everything you ever knew and change your lifestyle. With adaptive challenges come adaptive leadership. This is when the world around you is changing. You find yourself in a completely foreign environment and things are not what they used to be. The answers that you always gave no longer work and you are forced to think on your toes, like calling in plagues in order to make the pharaoh change his mind on slavery. A leader cannot force his community to change. They must all be willing to change and be adaptive leaders/followers so that they can function as one successful unit. It doesn’t matter where you were born, how you were raised, or even the actions you took in the past. What matters is what you do in the present that will impact the shape of the future, no matter how big or small of a change that is. With the ability to be an adaptive leader, you will succeed much more than a stagnate leader who is caught in the