In my recently concluded (coz our proj finally ended and there's no more lectures..) GE, "Leaders' role in the development of people in an organisation" one of the lessons we learnt struck me.
A leader must have the edge, and be able to make tough and unpopular decisions at times.
How true is that.
This year alone, in this short three months, already I've had to make 2 very difficult decisions. One was differentiating between friendship and my role as a comm head, the other was conflict of interest between doing my job and my duo role in two places.
I don't want to eloborate - some close friends should know.
I remember back in green days, the toughest decision I had to make probably was the one concerning 1) a more senior soldier 2) a baby 3) a wife 4) money 5) Work responsibilities. Ok in simple, it was a case of AW*OL of a married serviceman with a kid. At that point in time I was thinking, it's crazy, the system actually requires young punks to deal with the problems of older supposedly more matured men. Anyway the word in emphasis here is supposedly. But from then on, got used to it. Yeah you gotta make tough calls at the top.
And so far I've always had struggles making tough calls, but on the other hand, glad to say that I haven't regreted any so far. But yeah, of coz I do reflect on past cases and ponder about how things could have gone if I had made a different call.
"Wish that I could cry, fall upon my knees...men weren't mean to fly with clouds between their knees.." kept ringing in my head the whole of this week. Apt song most of the times.
Argh and I wish Murphy would stop following me around. My war against you is eternal, Murphy, for each move you make, I'm not gonna fall for it. Hurhur.
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