lets try that again : There are numerous amounts of leaders that have used the contingency model for their organization. When it comes to the contingency model of leadership, it states that there is no one right style of leadership and the best course of action depends on the situation at hand. The one that I found most interesting was the leadership at New York Presbyterian Hospital (Weill Cornell) during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, Dr. Lindsay Lief who was the head of the ICU had to make many life threatening decisions. At times there was only one ventilator available, but many patients in need of it. Throughout her years in practice she had always been taught to be compassionate and committed to trying to preserve life in all of her patients, however during this time the dynamics were different. She had to adapt her leadership style to the readiness of her team and what they could handle on a day to day basis. Many days they felt defeated and ready to give up because patients were dying by the hundreds. The pandemic was a great example of Fiedler's contingency model because it states task oriented leadership is most effective in unfavorable environments and those were the conditions at NYP at that time. Dr. Lief had to preserve her empathy and delegate roles rapidly in order to handle the pressures of not having enough equipment to save lives. Although the ICU normally conducts itself within a rigid system, Dr. Lief relaxed the rules to create the