Leadership, Wednesday Period 1, Final (4/22/09)

[1petrelli1.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to your last class," Nathan said. "Today's the final. If you've been paying attention you should find it easy. You can leave once you're done, though I wouldn't advocate rushing through it just for that. If you have any questions, I'm here."

[ooc: OCD is up!]

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Take the Final!

[1petrelli1.livejournal.com]

Leadership Final Exam

Essay Question:

Imagine you have just become the leader of whatever you want to be (i.e. a country, a company, a squadron, etc.) Your predecessor has left you with huge debts, a potential enemy attack, and as many people passionately hating you as there are people who support you. Using the skills from the class, how would you attempt to deal with these problems?

[ooc: Handwaving is fine]

Re: Take the Final!

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

Lee read the essay question a few times before he started writing.

First, I'd try to make assurances to the people that things will change and that I wouldn't be like their previous leader. Instilling some confidence in the leadership might help things forward. Priorities would have to be set, an action plan made. You can't deal with the debts until you deal with everything else. You can't deal with the attacks from outsiders if you don't have your own people on your side. And while everyone won't love me, reaching out and attempting to relate to the ones that hate me might be seen as a show of support. An olive branch. Diplomacy instead of violence.

Once the country has stabilized, we can move on to dealing with the outside threat of attack. While our manpower might not be as mighty, we'd still be prepared. However, I'd attempt to stop that attack before it started. While our previous leader might have brought it on, I would attempt to cut it off before it begins. War is hell. No one needs it...

Lee paused, looking thoughtful. There'd be more. He'd go on and on. But he figured he had a good start.

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[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri's essay, while very long and detailed (plenty of good intentions, very Jedi-like, if shaky and a little wrong-headed on some of the minutiae), contained several crossed-out passages that seemed to take a completely opposite point of view.

Weird.

All in all, it was a very earnest effort, if flawed.

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton did fairly well on the essay, enough for maybe a low B.

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[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Eaaaaaaaasy!

Dōjima hummed happily as she worked, writing out detailed summaries of each of her team members she'd met so far, and looking at where the various strengths and weaknesses of the STN-J were.

It was entirely possible her paper mentioned having Michael-kun hack a known Witch's accounts for fund transfers (they wouldn't need their ill-gotten gains in jail), and lots of time at the bar across the street, but the rest of it was shockingly well-reasoned with ideas for team-morale and consolidating her power-base.

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[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

The only thing that didn't fit into running one of the 13 shinigami Divisions was the money thing, but then debts didn't just have to be financial. So he wrote a piece on how to organise a military division on the eve of an invasion. The image thing was something he mostly tried to tackle through actions.

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[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi wrote what she thought was a unique response. Besides the typical ideas about listening to people's issues and building a consensus to tackle problems, she also wanted to seek help from Earth's allies, particularly the Vulcans.

When you grew up in a world with food replicators, warp drive engines and pointy-eared neighbors who meditated on a daily basis, it was hard not to be optimistic about surviving the current economic climate.

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[likethestore.livejournal.com]

K-Mart frowned for a moment, staring at the question before finally putting together an answer that, while not quite perfect on some of the finer points, was a pretty decent attempt for a girl from the situation she'd come from.

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[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara read the question, making notes in the margins as she did, then started outlining her answer. When she finally started writing, her essay focused a great deal on using proper communication skills to deal with both the enemy and her detractors by finding out what they wanted and how they thought what they wanted could be achieved.

She chewed on the end of her pen before deciding to add a paragraph about the usefulness of sex and seduction as weapons, negotiating tools, and methods of fundraising.

Hey, he asked.

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[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

For all his insistence on not being a leader and having no aspirations to be one, either, Chad put out a pretty good essay. Not wanting to be a leader, after all, did not necessarily mean being able to be objective about a situation. If there was one thing, though, to be said about Chad's essay was that it certainly seemed to expect a certain ideal....that as long as you were determined and stayed your course no matter what, it would all work out in the end.

It might have been hatched out of a great deal of worry and concern that it was exactly the sort of situation he'd be walking into after this summer.

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[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Naomi handwavily did reasonably well on her exam, doing enough to ensure that she passed.

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[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne wrote a detailed essay about how he would deal with the problems after he became head of the Jedi High Council. It involved lots of showings of good faith and strategies for defending against the Sith that probably weren't as good as he tried to make them sound.