Reflect on what you read in this chapter.
In the second chapter, I learned that one needs to extract deep insights from their crucible experiences and make learning from those experiences an ongoing activity. Although leadership experiences are very helpful in shaping one’s personality and leadership style, it is the learning from and reflection on those experiences that actually brings the real “gold” out of an individual. After a person experiences crucible moment, the key to success is to not get stuck or chafed by the ramifications but to find opportunities to learn and grow from those experiences. Successful leaders deem chaos and confusion as the coal-mine of opportunities where they find the diamonds of learning to help them grow into …show more content…
It involves confrontation with the new and unknown. New territory crucible improves a person’s alertness to the new information and makes one more receptive of knowledge. I experienced the new territory type of crucible at my internship in India when my team leader asked me to login to a remote server and write a script. At that time, I didn’t even know how to login to a remote server. I felt embraced and started reading about how to remotely login to a server and write scripts. Learning from this experience has been helping me even today as I am expert at writing scripts to automate tasks on remote …show more content…
This is very stressful to the person and often builds endurance and imagination. However, I personally believe that reversal type of crucible may adversely affect some individuals making them lose hope and take an escape route. But, those who rebound strongly from this type of crucible, rise high and become effective and successful leaders.
Suspension: In this crucible type, a person goes into a deep introspection and tries to identify his or her values and purpose in life. As mentioned above, I experienced the suspension type of crucible when I acted immaturely with two consultants. This experience put me into deep introspection mode, which allowed me to identify that I was not emotionally sensitive to my colleagues. I rediscovered my values that people and their feelings matter and hence evolved into an emotionally balanced
In the second chapter, I learned that one needs to extract deep insights from their crucible experiences and make learning from those experiences an ongoing activity. Although leadership experiences are very helpful in shaping one’s personality and leadership style, it is the learning from and reflection on those experiences that actually brings the real “gold” out of an individual. After a person experiences crucible moment, the key to success is to not get stuck or chafed by the ramifications but to find opportunities to learn and grow from those experiences. Successful leaders deem chaos and confusion as the coal-mine of opportunities where they find the diamonds of learning to help them grow into …show more content…
It involves confrontation with the new and unknown. New territory crucible improves a person’s alertness to the new information and makes one more receptive of knowledge. I experienced the new territory type of crucible at my internship in India when my team leader asked me to login to a remote server and write a script. At that time, I didn’t even know how to login to a remote server. I felt embraced and started reading about how to remotely login to a server and write scripts. Learning from this experience has been helping me even today as I am expert at writing scripts to automate tasks on remote …show more content…
This is very stressful to the person and often builds endurance and imagination. However, I personally believe that reversal type of crucible may adversely affect some individuals making them lose hope and take an escape route. But, those who rebound strongly from this type of crucible, rise high and become effective and successful leaders.
Suspension: In this crucible type, a person goes into a deep introspection and tries to identify his or her values and purpose in life. As mentioned above, I experienced the suspension type of crucible when I acted immaturely with two consultants. This experience put me into deep introspection mode, which allowed me to identify that I was not emotionally sensitive to my colleagues. I rediscovered my values that people and their feelings matter and hence evolved into an emotionally balanced