ncluding: drive, honesty and integrity, self-confidence, knowledge of the business and cognitive ability (Wren 135). The followers on the expedition were the Sherpas and the clients, however, they are forced to take the role of leader as the guides begin to get in trouble or die on the decent of Everest. They were under the control of the guides and the clients were under the Sherpas. The Sherpas play dual roles in being followers behind the guides, but also as leaders to the clients and to the guides when then go ahead with the supplies and ropes. The Sherpas demonstrated servant leadership and situational leadership. Greenleaf believes that servant leadership is where one is a servant first and wants to serve others but has a large presence in the group and who ends up leading through his service to society (Wren 18-23). Situational leadership becomes evident as the Sherpas have to change their tasks in order to better help the clients. Hersey and Blanchard describe it as "a way of adapting leadership behaviors to features of the situation and the followers" (Wren 210). The followers viewed the leaders almost as "superhuman" and felt that they could get
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