Case 12.2: Olympic Rowers In the 1930. rowing was the most popular sport in the country. The spent not only was pleysically brutal, but required inexhaustible wamwork. In an eight-man.rowing shell.cach member of the team has a role to fulfill based on where he site in the boat. The movements of each one pecindy wynchronized with the movements of the others in the bout. Every power in the shell must perform by with each and every pull of the car, if one member of the crew is off. the whole team is off. Any user's cake can theow off the tempo for the boat's thrust and jespardire the balance and succes of the boat In the early 1930s, rowing was a sport dominated by dne East Coast unities like Cornell, Harvard, and Princeton. However, two West Coast tram, the Univenity of California. Berdey, and the Univenity of Washington, had an intense rivalry not only with the con from the East Coast but with one another as well. AI Ulbrickson, the varsity crew coach at the University of Waibad watched jealously as the California team ascended to national prominence, representing the United States in the 1932 Olympics, and was determined that his University of Washington team would be the one to represent the United States at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany Ulbricoon's program had a number of talented town, including those who had vowed to win the national freshman championships in 1994. Unlike team from the East Coast whose memben lives were often marked by privilege and wealth, many of the boys in the University of Wathing program came from poor, working dan backgrounds. They were the son of longer formen, and fermen, dining a spot on the towing team would help pay for their college education. Over the summer becak these me boys would work often in dangerous and physically taxing job so they could afford to return to college in the fall Finding the ideal makeup of members fine a succesful rowing team is complex proces. A great crew isa carcfully balanced mix of towers with different physical abilities and penonalities. According to Brown (2013) "Good crews are blends of personalities someone to lead the chargemene to hold something in rete. someone to pick a fight someone to make peace, come to think through someone to change ahead without thinking. Even after the right mixture is found. each cuman mat recognise their place in the fabric of the crew and accept the others as they are" (pp. 179-10) To find that make mis. Ulbrick eperimented with different combination of wers, putting individual rowers on different teams to see how they performed together. But it was more than je putting the right abilities together it was finding the right chemistry. He finally did with a team of boys who had been winnowed down by punishing competition, and in the winnowing a kind of common caracter had wed forth they were all skilled, they were all cough they were all fiency determined but they were ale all good heamed. Every one of them had come from humble origins or bem humbled by the handsmes in which they had grown up.. The challenges they had faced together had taught them humiliache need to subsume their individual spons for the ake of the boat as a whole--and humility was the common way through which they were able now to come together" (Brown. 2013.p.241). One of those tram members and when he stepped into the shell with his new teammates, he finally felt at home This Washington vanity cam decimated the competition on them and West Coas, earning a spor on the US. Olympic team. At the Berlin Olympic, the team facader of challenges. One of their key carmen had fallen seriously ill on the candlantic voyage to Germany and remained sick throughout the competition, There were distractions everywhere. But every time the American boys win or new in one another they drew doser together as a group and called candy day to each other. They dniped urme over one anothers shoulders and talked through their race plan. Each of them know a defining moment in his life was nearly at hand and no one wanted to waste it. And sone wamed to want it for the then(Brown. 2013, p. 326) The team defeated England in its preliminary heat, and made it to the final. But the odds were stacked against them: They were in the worst lane in the final race, which put them at a two-leh dihantagethey 470 experienced a delayed start because their contain missed the signal thar the race had begun, and their sick carsman was barely consciou. But they came from behind and triumphed, winning Olympic gold. As Brown (2013) points out. "No other sport demands and rewards the complete abandonment of the self the way that rowing doex Great crews may have men or women of exceptional talent or strength, they may have outstanding skills... but they have no stars. The team effon-the perfectly synchronized flow of muscle cars, boat, and water the single, whole, unified, and beautiful symphony that a crew in motion becomes all that matters. Not the individual, not the self" (pp. 177-178). 471 Questions 1. In what way is this case about followership Who were the followen Who were the leaders 2. The main is the crew member who us in the stern facing the bow, steers the best and coordinates the power and thythm of the rowers. In this case, is the own's role more or less important than the roles of other crew memben! Explain your answer 3. Revening the lens cmphasines that follows can be change amewhat was the impact of followers characteristics on followen' behavions in this case What impact do you think Ulbricoon's perception and behaviors had on the rowers in his program 4. How would you describe the impact of both followers and leaders on followership outcome 5. In this case, the boys in the boat created a highly cohesive it. Do you think highly effective followership away result in cohesivencu Defend your answert 472 Case 12.2: Olympic Rowers In the 1930. rowing was the most popular sport in the country. The spent not only was pleysically brutal, but required inexhaustible wamwork. In an eight-man.rowing shell.cach member of the team has a role to fulfill based on where he site in the boat. The movements of each one pecindy wynchronized with the movements of the others in the bout. Every power in the shell must perform by with each and every pull of the car, if one member of the crew is off. the whole team is off. Any user's cake can theow off the tempo for the boat's thrust and jespardire the balance and succes of the boat In the early 1930s, rowing was a sport dominated by dne East Coast unities like Cornell, Harvard, and Princeton. However, two West Coast tram, the Univenity of California. Berdey, and the Univenity of Washington, had an intense rivalry not only with the con from the East Coast but with one another as well. AI Ulbrickson, the varsity crew coach at the University of Waibad watched jealously as the California team ascended to national prominence, representing the United States in the 1932 Olympics, and was determined that his University of Washington team would be the one to represent the United States at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany Ulbricoon's program had a number of talented town, including those who had vowed to win the national freshman championships in 1994. Unlike team from the East Coast whose memben lives were often marked by privilege and wealth, many of the boys in the University of Wathing program came from poor, working dan backgrounds. They were the son of longer formen, and fermen, dining a spot on the towing team would help pay for their college education. Over the summer becak these me boys would work often in dangerous and physically taxing job so they could afford to return to college in the fall Finding the ideal makeup of members fine a succesful rowing team is complex proces. A great crew isa carcfully balanced mix of towers with different physical abilities and penonalities. According to Brown (2013) "Good crews are blends of personalities someone to lead the chargemene to hold something in rete. someone to pick a fight someone to make peace, come to think through someone to change ahead without thinking. Even after the right mixture is found. each cuman mat recognise their place in the fabric of the crew and accept the others as they are" (pp. 179-10) To find that make mis. Ulbrick eperimented with different combination of wers, putting individual rowers on different teams to see how they performed together. But it was more than je putting the right abilities together it was finding the right chemistry. He finally did with a team of boys who had been winnowed down by punishing competition, and in the winnowing a kind of common caracter had wed forth they were all skilled, they were all cough they were all fiency determined but they were ale all good heamed. Every one of them had come from humble origins or bem humbled by the handsmes in which they had grown up.. The challenges they had faced together had taught them humiliache need to subsume their individual spons for the ake of the boat as a whole--and humility was the common way through which they were able now to come together" (Brown. 2013.p.241). One of those tram members and when he stepped into the shell with his new teammates, he finally felt at home This Washington vanity cam decimated the competition on them and West Coas, earning a spor on the US. Olympic team. At the Berlin Olympic, the team facader of challenges. One of their key carmen had fallen seriously ill on the candlantic voyage to Germany and remained sick throughout the competition, There were distractions everywhere. But every time the American boys win or new in one another they drew doser together as a group and called candy day to each other. They dniped urme over one anothers shoulders and talked through their race plan. Each of them know a defining moment in his life was nearly at hand and no one wanted to waste it. And sone wamed to want it for the then(Brown. 2013, p. 326) The team defeated England in its preliminary heat, and made it to the final. But the odds were stacked against them: They were in the worst lane in the final race, which put them at a two-leh dihantagethey 470 experienced a delayed start because their contain missed the signal thar the race had begun, and their sick carsman was barely consciou. But they came from behind and triumphed, winning Olympic gold. As Brown (2013) points out. "No other sport demands and rewards the complete abandonment of the self the way that rowing doex Great crews may have men or women of exceptional talent or strength, they may have outstanding skills... but they have no stars. The team effon-the perfectly synchronized flow of muscle cars, boat, and water the single, whole, unified, and beautiful symphony that a crew in motion becomes all that matters. Not the individual, not the self" (pp. 177-178). 471 Questions 1. In what way is this case about followership Who were the followen Who were the leaders 2. The main is the crew member who us in the stern facing the bow, steers the best and coordinates the power and thythm of the rowers. In this case, is the own's role more or less important than the roles of other crew memben! Explain your answer 3. Revening the lens cmphasines that follows can be change amewhat was the impact of followers characteristics on followen' behavions in this case What impact do you think Ulbricoon's perception and behaviors had on the rowers in his program 4. How would you describe the impact of both followers and leaders on followership outcome 5. In this case, the boys in the boat created a highly cohesive it. Do you think highly effective followership away result in cohesivencu Defend your answert 472