Theodore Roosevelt is well known as a president who was a man of action and forged through his life achieving great accolades. He was elected President of the United States, was the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize and he is the only president to win the Medal of Honor due to his heroics as commander of the Rough Riders. What many people may not know is that his successful pursuit of environmental conservation was also among these great achievements. But was President Roosevelt a visionary and ethical leader in his pursuit of conservation, and how was I able to utilize the same visionary and ethical leadership lessons that President Roosevelt used, or did not use, to be an effective leader myself?
After researching President Roosevelt’s conservation efforts, I believe he was both a visionary and ethical leader by demonstrating visionary leadership through Full Range Leadership by inspirational motivation and team building through his skills as an advancer.
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Decision analysis is a technique used to formalize the decision process using four steps; 1) create a decision statement, 2) determine your decision criteria, 3) search for alternatives and 4) conduct a risk analysis (BCEE, 2017a). President Roosevelt used decision analysis by first defining the problem by asking how to secure more land before the 10-day deadline. Next, he conferred with Pinchot to brainstorm ideas to solve the problem. Third, he considered alternatives to signing the bill, such as signing it outright or defying congress. Finally, he weighed the risks of working around the bill and decided to set aside 16 million acres of new public land before the 10-day deadline and signed the bill. By using decision analysis, he made the ethical choice and saved 19 million acres from being exploited by private