What is “management”? “What is leadership”? What are the desirable characteristics and behaviors of each? What are some examples of unfavorable characteristics or behaviors?

Where are the key analytical points from the “Missing Piece of NIMS”?

What’s next for you? How do you intend to apply these lessons to your future leadership activities in disaster or emergency management?

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References you have to look for:

In order to successfully complete Module 4.0, please do the following:

1. Review: The team presentations on Wicked Problems, Chaos, Design Thinking, etc. as it applies to Disaster and Emergency Management.
2. Post: your questions, reflections, and amplifications to those presentations.
3. Read: Renaud, Cynthia. “The Missing Piece of NIMS: Teaching Incident Commanders How to Function in the Edge of Chaos.” Homeland Security Affairs 8, Article 8 (June 2012).
   https://www.hsaj.org/articles/221 (Links to an external site.)
4. Read: Goffee, R., & Jones, G. (2005) “Managing Authenticity, the Paradox of Great LeadershipACTIONS” Harvard Business Review.
5. Locate and Analyze: one additional scholarly reference on leadership, and one on followership (total of three-3-articles reviewed).
6. Discuss: Join your classmates in a Group Discussion regarding your readings; focus on properties and behaviors of effective leaders, and effective management characteristics. Discuss the application of your chosen principles to your future activity as a disaster and emergency manager.
7. Suggest: This is a great time to read the Jocko Wilink books on leadership.