Reflection Of The Leader The Teacher And You

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Reflection: The Leader, The Teacher & You
This is the first time I have read a reference book on leadership, not to mention the first time writing a reflection about it. To be very frank, I was struggling to finish the book. First of all, I am not a good reader, secondly the topics mentioned were not engaging. My intention is to have a reflection for each chapter, noting down my thoughts and take away for each chapter.
Chapter 1: My Teachers. Being a leader might not necessarily mean that you are the most knowledgeable or smartest, but when problems arise, you are there to lead the group to solve the problem. Being an engineer myself, I encounter defects on a daily basis, and the solution doesn’t always come from me but sometimes it does come from the most junior chap. …show more content…

Don’t chase rewards, chase opportunities. If there is something that I learnt during my career as a navy engineer is not to choose your time to learn, learn at every possible opportunity that chance you, because you will never know when that opportunity might come again.
Chapter 3: Learning by Doing. Realised that my knowledge of the MINDEF was quite shallow when I read about the “block budget” that how the MINDEF was funded by the Singapore government. A quote that left a deep impression on me, from Dr Goh Keng Swee that the ultimate mistake is thinking that the best way to avoid making mistake is not doing anything at all. This quote was close to my heart as I am guilty of making is mistake, choosing to turn a blind eye to mistakes I make and not correcting

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