ch10 Tenacious Creativity

(I realized that I had lost track of what I had been reading and forgot to write about ch9...but anyway, let me sum up ch10)

Ch10 was the last chapter of the first part of the book. It went by very fast and the fact that we've learnt 10 leadership techniques already in this short period of time is surprising. There was a lot to learn, but I think it was because it is written along with the true stories that we could really enjoy reading this book till the end.

Ch10 was about creativity, and how important it is to be creative even under difficult circumstances. For this, both teamwork and individual commitment was emphasized in the stories that was given. Ch10 was kind of like a sum up of the all chapters and things were connected a lot. The author mentioned that leaders should be always prepared for things to go wrong, which relate to being optimistic because, to be optimistic, you need to be confident in the future and you need to be aware of what might happen in the future. He also mentioned that when strategies you come up with fail, think of new one, which was also mentioned earlier in the book when Shackleton said "Now we go home.".

Even when we are under no pressure, it is quite difficult to be creative, much less under difficult situation. But through several negotiation trials that we had in class, I realized that if we really try to think of an idea, it will often come up to us. I know the scale that the author was talking about is much bigger than my experience in class, but still, to actually try something, I think makes huge difference to the outcomes, so we should never be despair in difficulties and always look for hope.