Week Eight-Brent's Lecture

     On this Wednesday, Brent came to our class!! In his lecture, we could learn about self-leadership. We especially focused on our "personality". I impressed most the idea "Find great job based on your personality and make you more happier". For finding and getting good job, it is very important to know "who you are" and "what are you good at".  After I heard it, I noticed that there is no only one correct guideline for leadership and there are many types fitting for diverse leaders. However, it tells at the same time, if you want to become more good leader, recognize your type and find your good and weak point.

     During the lecture, Brent positioned himself as "Developer Leader" many times. When he said so, he seemed be sure that and be comfortable. Also, he looked really happy. By seeing such his self-confidence directly, I felt that he could before try to find himself, ask himself again and again, and finally understand himself. Therefore, keeping consider and look for inside of you are very important things to get self-awareness. I found that this idea is really similar to Shackleton's idea which is "inner dialog and self-talk" on Chapter 3. I would like to try to find myself too!

     Brent also said that after doing self-awareness, see others who are different or similar to you. If you understand the existence of many types and traits, you could be flexible towards their ideas much more easily. Moreover, in the case of group work, diversity is important, because we need to have various perspectives for solving the problems and challenging new things. If we have good valance in the same group, we could control well and not burst over like Brent's example as we saw, making no results, thinking over optimistic, making strong frame work, and going one's way alone. Therefore, one-sided idea and personality are dangerous and limited, so we need to have various types of leadership as much as possible and cooperate others. Here, I found the idea which is similar to Shackleton's idea (Chapter 5 and 6) again. "Shackleton did not select a homogeneous group that could be expected to gel of its own accord and brought some trouble makers in especially when time was decision-making". We could learn from Shackleton a lot!!

Finally, I would like to remember some Brent's idea,

"How to shift our focus depending on needs of the situation or person." Brent is Developer, but he sometimes needs to be Integrator, Baser, and Result Leader.

"Kind of stress or pressure are part of life!" Problems are inevitable!(from L@E)

Nothing is impossible once you understand 

"I'm possible".