For the (A) case:

1. What allowed the miners to survive, physically, and psychologically, until they were
found?
17 days before they were found things that make them survive is by a strategic
management from how they manage their food, how they manage the job based on their
certain skill and experiences, and rules so then 33 of them could leave side by side in a
small space and darkness.

2. How would you characterize the challenge faced by the engineers and geologist in the
first 17 days? What problem(s) did they have to solve?
- The depth at which the miners were entombed, the unstable rock formation, and the
mine’s antiquity and notorious safety record
- Search to locate and contact the miners
- They need to fulfill everyone’s expectation about the conditions of the miners
whether they are alive or dead.

3. How would you characterize the challenge faced by President Pinera? By the Minister of
Mining Golborne? What problem(s) did each man have to solve? With this in mind, what
is your assessment of their decisions and actions?
- As a president, Pinera should calm the citizen and assure them that the miners will
be rescued as soon as possible and push the teams by Golborne to give a significant
result and progress each day about the miners since the mine itself was not own by
government.
- As a minister, Goldborne had to fulfill Pinera orders, and the one who take all the
responsibilities of the incidents, so then he needs to decide about what kind of teams
that he need based on capabilities to face such a crucial case and challenges, because
Goldborne itself had no experience in mining.

4. What factors allowed the rescue teams to successfully locate and make contact with the
miners?
The factors are their thoughtful plans that comes from the new assessing based on 3D
drill profiles, the structure, and formation of the land that come from a great technology
that they could had and such a great leadership that know what to do, what they need to
do that, and what kind of innovation that they had to make.
For the (B) case:
1. What is your assessment of the miners’ efforts after they were located and before they
were rescued? What factors contributed to this?
After they were located the miners start to abandon their routine since they have mini
projector so then they could watch TV which began a reason of the conflict that happens
because they start had certain interest about what to watch. Besides the TV that they
have, it also because the rescue team did not give them any update and transparency
about the plans that have been done so then all they know that they just had to wait until
being rescued which takes 53 days since they are located.

2. What is your assessment of the efforts of the engineers and geologists in the (B) case?
What problem(s) did they have to solve?
Based on their effort, they’ve done the best that they could but the issue is they got 3
plans with different expert on it so then it could be said pretty wasteful since the plan C is
such a failure.
So they need to solve the executive problems first between 3 plans so then they could
focus on the plan that had the best success probability.

3. What explains the onsite rescue effort’s success?

The team commitment by making plan A, B, and C, human resources with skills and
capabilities, and how the experts manage the miners to survive so the rescue could be
success.

4. What, if any, parallels do you see to the challenges your organizations faces? What
general leadership lessons can we identify from the Chilean rescue experince?
The challenge that organization had definitely lack of capability and experience so then
the leader must to have a certain formulation in the strategy that they going to do so then
the execution could going well and they get the result that they want which is rescuing
the miners.