During my 27 plus years in the military and over 20 years in the construction industry, I have been exposed to a wide variety of leaders and their leadership style. These examples have demonstrated to me that there are just as many bad as good. My journey down this path of growth has enlightened my awareness of realization that not everyone can be a leader and it takes hard work to be a successful leader. Never in my wildest dreams would I have envisioned where I am today. Navy Boot Camp, 1987,
years. After he was discharged from the military, he went on to become a road trooper for two years, and branched out into investigative services, which included drug and criminal investigations, and undercover work, lasting approximately four years. After fourteen years in law enforcement, he stated he was kind of a “lost soul”. So, he actually decided to start working at Chief Industries in Kearney, Nebraska until the year 2000, when his wife encouraged him to join into law enforcement again
Like many young sailor coming out of boot camp, when I heard the words talk to “THE CHIEF” I had that picture in my head of that mean scruffy old sailor that drinks at least four cups of coffee and spent an ridiculous amount of time thinking of new ways to make junior sailor’s lives miserable. How ever throughout my career I realized that a chief is more than that. They are mentors, teachers, a shoulder to cry on and for some a father figure I met many Chiefs throughout my Naval career, some good and
1979 and eight in active years for a total amount of 12 years. Jesse comes from a Chicano family of six, Jesse being the oldest. Jesse was born and raised in East Los Angeles where he attended San Alfonso Catholic High School after being kicked out of varies schools and enlisting in the U.S Marine Corps. Jesse grow up in a conservative loving catholic home but regardless his family morals he love to get in trouble and used drugs considering himself the “Black Sheep” of his family. Jesse drugs
1. My Leadership definition – Guiding and inspiring individuals and groups to efficiently complete a common goal while fostering an environment of mentorship, personal growth, teamwork, and empowerment while utilizing an individual’s strengths and addressing their weaknesses. Leadership is situational and has to be adapted to a certain point to play to those individual strengths and weaknesses to find the right balance to achieve the goal. Leadership is about understanding yourself, how you interact
Practices Inventory: LPI, Kouzes & Posner 1. My Leadership definition – Guiding and inspiring individuals and groups to efficiently complete a common goal while fostering an environment of mentorship, personal growth, team work, and empowerment while utilizing an individual’s strengths and addressing their weaknesses. Leadership is situational and has to be adapted to a certain point to play to those individual strengths and weaknesses to find the right balance to achieve the goal. Leadership is about
lasting from 1955 to 1973.The war had two major effects on American people. First, the Vietnam War tarnished America’s self image by becoming the first time in history the United States failed to accomplish its stated war aims, to preserve a separate, independent, noncommunist government. It was the first war ever broadcast on television. The public was able to see what happened on the battlefield. Second, one of the chief effects of the war was the division it caused among the people. Not since the
that I could be in my career. The leadership influences I have respected the most are the guys who knew their subject of expertise; mainly the Chief and First Class Petty Officers that knew everything about the aircraft we were flying on. Those are the people that I always looked up to and wanted to be around because I always knew I was going to learn something new from them. As I have progressed in rank and realm of responsibility, the area of knowledge that is important to my job has changed, but
” The indoctrination emphasized blind loyalty to the fatherland - Germany - and to Hitler himself. In 1933, Hitler, while addressing Nazi loyalists, stated his goals for establishing the HJ where he said: "My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order, a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing
clarity of its mission is seen in the extensive training that recruits receive in boot camp and the mental focus directed by their superiors to focus on the mission statement. In recruitment, the Navy seeks young men and women, often bogged down with school and jobs that to an eighteen or nineteen year old seems to be boring and slow paced. Work Environment The navy workspace is most commonly out on the sea, on a ship, or in a submarine. Part of the Navy’s mission is to maintain