1. As this story illustrated, sometimes teams have to move quickly. How do you get a team...

Question:

1. As this story illustrated, sometimes teams have to move quickly. How do you get a team up and running quickly?
2. In a crisis situation such as this, what role does a team leader need to play? Explain.
3. Using Exhibit, what characteristics of effective teams would this team need? Explain.

Imagine the scene. A FedEx 727 jet and a giant U.S. Air Force cargo jet at an impasse on the taxiway, another jet trying to reach a parking spot at the terminal, another headed for a runway, U.S. Navy and Canadian helicopters swarming overhead, a Bolivian DC-10 just landing, and a Boeing 757 carrying former President Bill Clinton just landing. What a nightmare! In the first few days after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the airport in the capital city, Port-Au-Prince, was a chaotic free-for-all.70 Aid planes were jostling for space on the single open runway and landing randomly. Then, the evening after the earthquake, a small team of U.S. Air Force special-operations troops whose job is to control air traffic set up to do what they€™ve been trained to do. The airport€™s control tower was too badly damaged to be used. So, operating from a folding table on a patch of dirt, the team worked to safely bring in much-needed supply-laden cargojets.