Posted on Jan 21, 2016
Firing Back:How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters
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This article is intended to inspire anyone who is facing a setback to overcome it.
It's not impossible to recover though you may believe it is. The biggest factor is overcoming a setback is yourself. Get past dwelling on what was lost and focusing on the future.
When you hit rock bottom is when you have to rely on the skills that made you a top leader in the first place. These skills and a determination to rebuild will become your driving force. It's important to take responsibility and find a way to put it behind you. Remember that time passes and determine, you want your future to be on a forward moving trajectory, refuse to allow the setbacks to define you, focus on where you will be in one, two, three...years from now, build or rebuild your integrity. A leader puts themselves on the line everyday knowing adversity and rejection are a possibility, don't be afraid.
Examples of leaders who have recovered from setbacks are: Jimmy Carter, Steve Jobs, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman...
It's not impossible to recover though you may believe it is. The biggest factor is overcoming a setback is yourself. Get past dwelling on what was lost and focusing on the future.
When you hit rock bottom is when you have to rely on the skills that made you a top leader in the first place. These skills and a determination to rebuild will become your driving force. It's important to take responsibility and find a way to put it behind you. Remember that time passes and determine, you want your future to be on a forward moving trajectory, refuse to allow the setbacks to define you, focus on where you will be in one, two, three...years from now, build or rebuild your integrity. A leader puts themselves on the line everyday knowing adversity and rejection are a possibility, don't be afraid.
Examples of leaders who have recovered from setbacks are: Jimmy Carter, Steve Jobs, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman...
Firing Back:How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters
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A good book that supports this is Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success by John C. Maxwell.
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I don't know. Sometimes no matter how hard one tries it becomes impossible. For example: on AD I was considered a great soldier and made a lot of good waves. Soon as I got to the guard I was ostracized and told I was wrong/too RA at every point. I was turned down for a warrant flight spot because I didn't go drinking with them beforehand. After an injury at the nco academy they tried to medical me out, even after my doctor sent a letter stating full return to duty. 2 years and 2 months later after beating the PEB (yes they didn't have the courtesy of putting me through a MEB for an on duty injury) I was given a P2 profile. And at ETS I signed up again then was immediately given a counseling which stated I would not be allowed to go to wocs, ocs, or direct commission. Having resilience is great, but when collaborative opposition works against one rather than with them they end up running out of time or resources to win. I won two major cases seen as impossible and yet they still keep coming up with more nonsense. I have been kind and sincere so the lower enlisted don't understand why. So I'm going to inactive to work on my PhD, maybe med school. But my career is stalled or dead and no amount of resilience is going to change that even if I deep six the story.
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