What Sort of Leader Are You?

[usmc1]

Take the Military Leadership Profile Test and find out!

Are you a Patton type, or Attila the Hun, or perhaps, a wise and sagacious Churchill?

Take the test, and let us know what you learn. It's quick, it's easy, (only four questions) and it's fun!

Me? Why, George Washington of course!

http://www.military.com/LeaderShipTest/1,16183,main.htm,,00.html

[ki4kxq]

I match up with Napoleon. It is interesting to see how you match up and the description of the leader you match up with. I guess I did listen in USMC school all those years ago.

[Navigator]

I scored Omar Bradely...so I guess I could have done worse... except there aren't really and bad scores on this. For example, you can't score as George A. Custer or that British General that surrendered "Fortress Singapore" after only one week of facing the Japanese at the start of WW2.

It's hard to believe the scenario you make decisions about...with only two possible decisions at each decision point...could actually result in accurate comparisons with so many famous leaders.

Do you think there's an element of randomness to the results of this test?

[EricNY]

Teddy Roosevelt

Interesting, as he is one of my heroes

[Qikdraw]

Wesley Clark

Not bad. I have a lot of respect for him, so that works for me. :D

[nimrod]

I got Wesley Clark also. Not sure who he is really, but I have swiss cheese for a memory. What they say in the bio seems positive though.

[NudonyII]

Eisenhower. I guess I can live with that.

[Dolby]

Teddy Roosevelt here. Interesting.

[BeachBum]

I scored Wesley Clark.... pretty cool.

[naturalmanwa]

Interesting ! I am "old blood and guts", George S Patton!

[baregreg]

William Tecumseh Sherman

[Baremore]

John Paul Jones ??? Don't understand - I'm an old paratrooper!

[rone]

US GRANT,

Which is interesting, since he was an Illinois boy, like me.

(And was Ronald Reagan and Abe Lincoln)

Go Illini.

[Nugent]

I came out as Stonewall Jackson

[usmc1]

US GRANT,

Which is interesting, since he was an Illinois boy, like me.

(And was Ronald Reagan and Abe Lincoln)

Go Illini.

He is one my heroes. He reinvented himself many times over. Most people know that he had been cashiered from the army in California, and was reduced to selling firewood from a cart on the streets of St. Louis, then to become one of our greatest generals and eventually president.

What many people do not know of is his ultimate act of courage. In retirement, dying of cancer, in horrible pain and debilitation, he persevered in the writing of a multi-volume history in order to gain the funds for his wife to live decently and in some comfort after his death.

The day he completed the final chapter, and laid aside his pen, was the day that he died.

If you seek a model of tenacity and perseverance against odds and obstacles it is old Captain Grant. Something is in that rich black soil of Little Egypt that give us boys from Southern Illinois some grit and spit!

[Baretodabone]

I matched profile with Robert E Lee... good southerner.

[eagle59]

Teddy Roosevelt for me!

[usmc1]

I matched profile with Robert E Lee... good southerner.

Another of my heroes. Lee's adherence to his core principles cost him greatly. He was so much more than a southerner, he was a great American at a time when America was struggling to define its self. He fought the North to what was actually a stalemate and were it not for the loss of Jackson, and two other key generals, along with Jefferson Davis's failure to create meaningful European alliances, North America would be an all together different place than it is today.

Our national cemetary at Arlington was his home before that lamentable war between the states. The Republican hotheads of the time expropriated it after that war. And, there was serious talk of having him hung.

Cooler heads prevailed and he lived out his few remaining years as the President of a university. He was beloved by his neighbors and was a handsome sight lifting small children upon his great war horse Traveler and riding them about the town square.

[Qikdraw]

Cooler heads prevailed and he lived out his few remaining years as the President of a university. He was beloved by his neighbors and was a handsome sight lifting small children upon his great war horse Traveler and riding them about the town square.

Washington university, now known as Washington and Lee university to be exact. :)

Out of all American generals and admirals, Lee is by far my favorite. He was tactically brilliant but it is his character that stands out for me. He was an extremely honorable man.

[MoonShadow]

Hmmm, came out as a Robert E Lee

[country nude]

Dwight D. Eisenhower


Go Illini!!

[NorthEastUSA]

I got Patton!

[SilentJ]

I also got Patton, although truth be told, I'm not a leader at all.

[MJ_KC]

I ran through the questions twice.

The first time it came back with Omar Bradley and the 2nd time it came back with George Washington. There was one question where I changed my answer based on the belief that both approaches would be effective.