LE "Vision and Quick Victories"

In order to respond to this week's expedition log, I would first like to put my sentence for the Dan Pink video.

He led teams many times in many ways and fully influenced people around him.

it's kind of like this I guess.
So, according to the sentence above, my personal leadership goal is that when I become a leader of certain team somehow in the future (not so far maybe...), I want to support every single person in the team and speak with them openly and I don't want the team to have bad atmosphere.

To explain this and the "new mark", I would like to talk about samba circle I'm participating right now , ICU LAMBS. It's not that I'm a leader there, but I'm one of the ten executives. This year, LAMBS was so disappointed because summer's biggest samba parade called the Asakusa Samba carnival was suspended due to the quake disaster.　This news was a real shock for all of the members, so the executives had lots and lots of meetings to think of an alternative event that everyone would participate, and it even lasted all night with skype. With lots of hard work and meetings, we had concluded that we are going to plan a live concert somewhere during the summer.

This I want to say that it was a "new mark" because it was a big shift for everyone to reconsider our main summer event, which previously was an Asakusa samba parade to a summer live. The final decision was made by all member's agreement eventually but everyone had no doubt executives and leaders did lots of hard works. It is surely understandable that the captain also wanted to do the parade somehow, but it was important to rethink that feeling and seek for another solution.
I think that this situation is same as the Endurance experiences and the sir Ernest's quick shift change.

For the long term goal I put the "sentence" above, so as for my short term goals, I want say those are really closely related to skills we're discussing right now in class such as negotiation skills!!
I think learning how to communicate well and persuade others by my own words is the best way to solve the problem. Our samba club does have lots and lots of meetings so it is crucial to know skills to make the situation Win- Win, and that's what I want to specialize through out the class and my whole life.

LE "Preface"

I have experienced being both as a leader and a follower of a team. I was a president of school council in high school, and simultaneously was a member of drama club. So my whole blog posts would somehow going to be connected to my opinion of qualities that are needed for good leader based on my experience being a leader myself subjectively and observing a particular leader as a follower myself. But for today, I’m going to talk about my experience being a head of the school council.

Being a head of school council was really hard for me mainly because some council members were incorporative.

In my school, the student council was not restricted by teachers and school rules, so we could do anything if we really wanted to achieve it. However, this also meant that if we don’t work hard to make school problems solved and plan an event, nothing would happen and even teachers won’t say anything to inspire us. They would be silent till we move or say something.

When I was the president, only thing that was in my head was: how can I lead these eleven council members to work hard?? So I think I was frustrated all the time and giving orders in authoritative tone. But just as anyone could expect, many of the members quitted not officially but virtually working as a school council.

At that time I was around 17 and had no doubt I was wrong, but now I could easily realized that I was so wrong mostly in two meanings.

1. I should have made clear distinction between the on/off.

2. According to the above condition, I should have trusted the others and　leave their work on their hands.

I was nervous and angry all the time worrying everyone is doing their work alright, but I shouldn’t have done that because those bad attitude made others feel more and more frustrated and not wanting to work. I should have said more bright and humorous things like it said in Leading at the Edge.

I'm looking forward to study more qualities of good leadership by reading the Perkins' book and by discussing in class. I also want to share more of my thoughts based on my experience both as a leader and a follower.