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The Sinking Of The Schooner Sofia And How It's Crew Utilized Adaptive Leadership To Survive, Kevin H. Cox
The Sinking Of The Schooner Sofia And How It's Crew Utilized Adaptive Leadership To Survive, Kevin H. Cox
Liberal Studies (MA) Final Essays
This is the historical account of the tall ship, or schooner, Sofia that sank on February 23, 1982, off the North Island of New Zealand, between Cape Reinga and North Cape. Of the 17 crew members on board, 16 of them made it into the life rafts. They were rescued by the Russian trawler Vasili Perov more than five days later. How the crew managed to survive in the life rafts is further examined through the adaptive leadership framework by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky. Through this examination, the Sofia’s survival leadership is compared and contrasted to the …
A Case Study Of George Plater Tayloe And Buena Vista, Jack Payden-Travers
A Case Study Of George Plater Tayloe And Buena Vista, Jack Payden-Travers
Liberal Studies (MA) Final Essays
The nineteenth century was an era of transition for the young American nation. George Plater Tayloe was born in 1804 and died in 1897. His life spanned an age of American politics from Jefferson to McKinley. He grew up in the post-colonial period and matured during the antebellum years. By the end of the Civil War he was in his sixties and lived on through Reconstruction and the emerging capitalism of the late nineteenth century. He grew up in a slaveholding society and was a man of his times. A member of one of the "first families of Virginia," he …