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Prepare a five to seven paragraph response proposing leadership styles you would recommend for the Denver Airport Project. Please choose a combination (two or three) of the eight leadership styles presented in the Thompson textbook (Chapter 11: Leadership: Managing the Paradox). Please note that you are to also use three other sources from the internet or the DeVry online library. All sources must be cited.

After reading the Denver Airport Project out of the eight leadership styles I believe active leadership, task leadership, and transformational leadership would be the three styles I would propose for the project. All three styles are team oriented towards reaching the success of the project. With out a close, hard working teams the …show more content…

The Denver Airport Project over two thousand projects and had more than double that in teams to complete the project. With this the teams had to work together within the team and with other teams for the over all goal of the Denver Airport. That fine line called confidence is what team leaders and project managers had to keep instilled in their personnel to keep the drive or forward progress of the project. Any slip on either side of the line could lead to a failed deadline.
Overconfidence can lead to internal failure within a person or a team. A good leader will be able to see when his or her team is beginning to demonstrate such behavior and have a technique or strategy to humble the team. This keeps the team focused on the goal at hand and keeps the team on track to achieve the goal. During the Denver Airport Project the main coordinators did not leave room in the timeline for unseen drawbacks and had to keep pushing the airport opening day back. This just was not a few days or weeks this was months to years.
Under confidence in my opinion is worse then overconfidence. My experience in the military taught me that both are bad, but in my experience overconfidence can get someone injured or even killed. Under confidence on the hand will get others injured or killed due to the lack of confidence to react. The Denver Airport Project continued to have unseen obstacles continuing to move back the opening day this was a dampening on the teams

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