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Leadership Is Influence: Nothing More, Nothing Less

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My leadership journal

1) Intro
2) Personality profile/ self assessment
3) Defining moments of leadership from primary school to jc
4) How I changed and can be better
5) What I want to be

Introduction

Having been through almost 21 years of life and experiences, attended countless of leadership talks and read numerous books on leadership, if there was one word to describe leadership, it is influence. I once read from a book by John C Maxwell, “The true measure of leadership is influence – Nothing more, Nothing Less.”

Since young, many often at times, I personally misunderstood leaders to be directly in official positions of power. Sometimes its true, but these titles I realized have in fact no correlation to real leadership as I learn over …show more content…

Though I did attained acknowledgment by my cohort and teachers’ for the immense effort and time as compared to others, I thought I had a shot at one of the core leadership positions in the unit. Yet it came as a disappointment when I was appointed Assistant Platoon Sergeant holding a 3rd sergeant rank. It was truly shocking and I felt this couldn’t be true. I felt I deserved more, given the amount of effort I’ve put in to making this unit great and I was not getting anything in …show more content…

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