buckkitty wrote:
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So suppoer I had a situation that one of our customers had problems with our products. I was incharge to deal with this customer (a major one) and in order to fix their problem, I had to round up engineers to help us out, make fixes, do some testing etc.
Our engineers were extremely busy with a new product deadline, and I had to put pressure on their managers and my manager to get some traction on this problem.
Is that leadership? kinda?
(btw, I'm planning to use this for Cornell Essay 1)
Fluffydot, do you have my job?? This is a day in the life of me, and a similar experience I was thinking of in terms of leadership. I think that getting people to prioritize, motivate and buy into your project as an important cause when they otherwise would not seems like an example of leadership to me, but maybe I am wrong.
I think this involves getting people to do something without forcing them, getting them to serve the interests of the company in the form of realized revenues, managing the relationship with the client and mitigating any damage resulting from the initial problem. Is this not leadership? Does anyone have an example, real or fictional, of tangible leadership?
Fictional Leadership Examples:
- Commanded Apollo 13 mission and the hicupps!
- Rescued an hi-jacked airplane (when the pilots were knocked off)
- Navigated a Cargo ship from the hands of pirates
- Mountaineering: Saved the lives of XXX people engulfed in a deadly storm on the North Face of Everest!
- Soled the North Face of Eiger/Mt Robson for a noble cause (such as AIDS awareness etc)