I'm not a psychologist or anything but I used to stay at a Holiday Inn Express when the pshrink ward let me out on weekend passes . . .
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This is why I am asking... how much of this is about training, and how much of it is innate? NO ONE seems to want to address this question here. Which seems interesting to me.
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Personally, I don't think it's as much training as personality type. Sure, if you take a person and train them for a job and train them well and they are studious, then you'll probably get someone who can react appropriately for a situation related to that particular job. And that's about as far as they are comfortable.
Whereas you take an "A" type personality, someone that is confident, doesn't scare easily and thrives in a stressful environment; they will react in a positive manner whether it be to take action themselves or 'order' someone to take action in a positive way.
Take an honest evaluation of your personality type and that of those present for your example and then look at the situation you addressed here, (this is an suggestion for everyone). You'd have to spend your life reading in order to react appropriately for every situation you might run across.
Here's my training example:
An infantry company runs drill for different types of ambushes. They run these drills until you're sick of them and then you run them again. Eventually, it becomes second nature and the whole unit can react to an ambush the right way most of the time.
Now, look back at the Jessica Lynch story. There was one truck driver in that platoon that did everything right: suppressing fire, he took out the mortar, and other things. I seriously doubt that this particular transport company ran ambush drills yet this one guy did the right thing. I bet this guy has one of those get'R'done personalities.
This all sounded good in my head. Hope it reads better to you than it does to me.
@Maisy - I agree with what you said about leadership