Theoretical Framework for Leadership

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Theoretical Framework for Leadership Preparation

The Theoretical Framework for Leadership assignment enables you to analyze leadership as a vocation and evaluate qualities of professional excellence and integrity characterized by inspiring leaders. In preparation for this assignment, you will select a book about a specific leader that exemplifies successful leadership as a vocation. You can select a book by a well-known individual in the discipline of leadership or a leader in your own field, religion, sport, or another area of personal interest.

Complete the table below and submit this worksheet to your instructor. To allow time for thoughtful reading and planning for this assignment, consider the following items that you will be writing about when selecting a book:

· Practiced style of leadership

· Demonstrated leadership traits

· How the leader perceives leadership as a vocation

· How the leader inspires followership

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Title of the book

The Reminiscences of a Marine

Reference

The Reminiscences of a Marine. Barnes and Noble Press. Retrieved from book ISBN-13: 9788827571477

A 50-100-word rationale for why you selected this book, including a discussion of the demonstrated success of the leader

LtGen John Archer Lejeune, a strategic leader, served as the 13th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and guided the Corps through the very turbulent period of the 1920s. This was a time of tremendous challenges for the Armed Forces of the United States as the country, following the aftermath of the war to end all wars, craved a return to normalcy and economic prosperity.

As a result the military was faced with personnel cutbacks and small budgets. In this environment, and during his tenure as Commandant, General Lejeune would make visionary decisions that not only changed the culture of the Marine Corps, but would also lay the foundation for the development of amphibious warfare that set the groundwork for the successes enjoyed during World War II and beyond. His far reaching actions are still felt in the Marine Corps today.

Lejeune, through his prolific communications and political astuteness, created an institution focused on creating the force necessary to execute this new mission of the Corps. His efforts to make the Corps more efficient and economical created a mindset within the Corps of doing more with less - a key ethos required of an expeditionary force. His annual exercises and fleet maneuvers created a well-trained and disciplined force eager to prove itself. Demonstrating the prowess of this force to top national

leaders reinforced in their minds the elite nature of the Corps and its usefulness to the nation.

At every opportunity, Lejeune communicated through speeches, articles, and other correspondence all the great things the Corps did as well as his expectations for the force in the future. In the end, all of his efforts created a highly efficient and useful elite expeditionary force just as he had envisioned. His legacy was the amphibious Marine Corps of World War II. Lieutenant General Victor Krulak in his book First to Fight credits Lejeune as being a visionary who perceived the need for securing base facilities in the immense Pacific Ocean as well as a prescient pioneer of amphibious doctrine.

John Archer Lejeune was truly a great leader and Marine. His countless contributions to the Marine Corps have made it the elite organization that it is today. We, who are Marines, owe him a debt of gratitude and those of us who aspire to become senior leaders can gain much by studying this great American.