I want to Thank Her

My AIESEC journey has came to an end on 30 June 2013. One of my VPs asked me to rate my team experience, I rated my leadership experience as bad. He then further asked me if it was because of the mis-match of my vision and their characters, I nodded to him. I think the moment when I nodded my head, I knew I have failed terribly as I resorted to blaming others for not being able to catch up with my pace or expectations.

To best summarize my failure was, I failed to groom leaders out of them, nor to be able to inspire creative capacity to the level that I expect. Being a big fan of John C. Maxwell that advocates one of the golden leadership principles, that is a true leader creates more leaders, I was clouded by strong sense of guiltiness at that point of time.

It was until 3 months ago, I teamed up with her to start experimenting on frying lotus, because I convinced her into believing that lotus snack could be a relevant, healthy substitute of pop corns and everyday's snack. We did the process together, she was kind of merely following my orders, I felt weird too to instruct her. I done the studies, preparing the materials, much were covered, the only thing was to fry it, that's the part I was afraid of, so I let her to do it. So, when everything was done, I sat down and asked her about her feeling if she felt uncomfortable about the manner I conducted myself throughout the experimentation, she said to me that she did not feel the slightest offend, and she felt that I will be a good leader or an employer one day, because she equated a leader is a doer. Only by setting a good example, only can he convince and lead.

Thank you, mum. You believed me when I doubted myself. I knew the things that you don't mention doesn't mean I am good at it, I knew there are pretty much rooms for improvement.

I will never forget feedback given by my teammates in AIESEC during the last feedback session. I need to be a good listener and learn to trust people more.

End by sharing a quote:

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. —Aristotle