Week #3 Leading at the Edge Ch2

In this chapter, the author explains about strategy 2, "set a personal example with visible, memorable symbols and behaviors."

There are many interesting points in this chapter, especially, "be visible: let people see you leading."

On page 34, it says that "He himself set the example, throwing away, what a spectacular gesture, a gold watch, a gold cigarette case, and several golden sovereigns." I am impressed what he did in front of his team because  it should have been tough decision for him to throw away what he had possessed all the time. Moreover, those things are valuable in our lives. Therefore, his attitude must have had big impact on his team. 

We can see this impact from members; they "discarded everything save the barest necessaries."

I felt that I cannot do the same thing as him, because I am not that brave. However, I learned that to encourage the team, it is important to show leader himself as an example.

In the class, I did not come up any ideas about people who show them as examples.

However, I found out that there are a lot of leaders who act like this.

The link below shows a few examples of those who accomplished.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_60.htm

This article states about Mahatma Gandhi and Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric. 

Interestingly, both of them did the same thing as Shackleton!

Moreover, the article says that "If your team knows that you'll also do whatever you expect from them, they'll likely work hard to help you achieve your goal."

I thought that it is difficult to be an example of the others, but as the article says, it is not that difficult and it is actually simple thing. 

What we have to do is just doing what you say or what you are expected to. Maybe, there are somebody who see your effort.