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Thad Allen was selected by President George W. Bush to lead the recovery effort in the immediate Post Hurricane Katrina period which was characterized by agency failures. In analyzing what he had learned from this experience he stated: ‘I believe that in the last 20 years, we have gone through a fundamental change on how we lead, how we learn, acquire knowledge, manage knowledge and aggregate to produce social behaviours...In fact, I believe it is significant enough that it amounts to the anthropological equivalent of climate change...There are three ways to deal with climate change - adapt, suffer or manage.' (Thad Allen) Thad Allen was assigned to manage the crisis of Hurricane Katrina after the debacle of failed agency response. He was highly recognized for his leadership of this crisis.

TASK: Present an analysis of these comments, in the context of the 21st century environment and the demands of leading in a crisis. Question requires an analysis on the statement, the paper is taking a position that it is merely impossible to subscribe to any specific form of leadership in crisis. But leadership I always critical in a crisis. The writer needs to adopt this line of argument throughout the writing. Use situational, strategic, adaptive and behavioural leadership theories to support the line of argument. I need this well researched well written. Please use journal articles from google scholar, and text books