Leading the Engaged Enterprise

This essay uses a reflective approach to explore the author's experiences, categorizing them into 'hero moments' and 'zero moments' to illustrate leadership lessons learned. The 'hero moments' describe instances of success and effective leadership, such as rescuing a classmate from a pond and winning a race. Conversely, 'zero moments' detail instances of failure and poor judgment, including a poorly prepared presentation and an angry outburst. The author connects these experiences to specific time periods, highlighting a timeline of personal growth and development. The essay concludes by reflecting on the interconnectedness of hero and zero moments, emphasizing the importance of learning from mistakes and the continuous process of self-improvement in leadership. The references cited suggest the essay draws upon academic literature related to leadership, enterprise, and management.

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Hero Moments
In the 90s, when I first heard the phrase” follow your bliss”, it immediately hooked my
attention. In the college day, while I was studying at the Singapore Institute of technology, I heard
the word again “bliss” that were used frequently but I never stopped to consider what it exactly
means. During the summer days, I was traveling to my home in the train from Singapore Tanjong
Pagar railway station. But at that only I received one phone call from my class mate that after the
vacation we will have class test. At that I became so tensed because I didn’t bring any of my study
material with me. I was thinking whole day and night that how I will read and how I will pass the
exam. Only thing I have is my laptop. So I log on to my library and quickly recall all the lectures
which were taught in our class. Then from the library I search for books and found and started
preparing for the exam. Then after the vacation I sat for the exam and guess what I have done
extremely well in my course. Even I got highest mark in my class and got gold medal for this.
That time I believe that if we believe in ourself and think in positive manner then we can do
anything or we can achieve anything in our life. This is one of my best hero moment of my life.
Singapore Institute of technology is surrounded by several trees and gardens. Once I was
sitting in the garden and looking at the novel. I was predicting as if I was reading but my eyes
somewhere else. Suddenly I saw one of my branch mates was sitting on a bench that was very
close to the pond. When she stood up, her one part of the dress got stuck in the bench’ corner
portion and due to the less space, she felt down in the pond. She didn’t know swimming. I know,
as in the previous week we had a swimming competition in the college and she had not registered
in that. I ran suddenly towards the bench and started to find something to give her. But I realized
that I am a good swimmer. I jumped into the water and started struggling against the water to save
her. She was almost of my weight so I easily managed to take her out of the water. She was very
pleased and thanked me for saving her life. I felt good and proud (Jorgenson, 2014).
Once I had got a chance to represent my college in sports among the delicate from the
European countries about the counselling services that are followed here. I always believe I am
good at 200m running. That was the time when I need to prove myself. I practice before the race
seriously. I never feel the fear as I was a regular face in sports during the school days. After the
completion of other groups, my turn came and I stood confidently and took my position. At that
time many things are coming to my mind like what if I failed. What if I fall down etc. but I cool
down and concentrate only on my race. I just keep saying to myself that I am gonna win this race

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no matter what. With we got the signal to start I just shoot up like bullet and within some sec I
was in third position. It was a 2 lap race and in 1st lap I was in third place. Then I just put all my
effort and push myself so hard and started running like anything. Then slowly I overtake the 2nd
position person. I was some distance away from the first position. I just ran like anything and
touch the finishing line and I became First. I was so happy at that time. I got Gold medal for this.
And make myself, my parent and my teachers proud. This was indeed one of the best hero
moments of my life.
Zero Moments
Mistakes are that part of our life from where we learn about the harsh reality. During the
school days, I usually take the things very lightly and without giving a second thought I proceed.
Each time I got the success so my confidence was on the top of the sky. Once I had a meeting
regarding the new patterns that were supposed to implement in our school. Without any
preparation, I went to the auditorium. I found an immense number of talented students who were
confidently speaking in front of the guests. When my turn came, I was a little bit confused as the
things were not clear regarding the presentation topic. Suddenly I stopped and I found as if I have
no more words to explain the topic. I was quite for a while and moved out of the stage. That
moment was so embracing and painful because a few days ago I was counted on the topper list
and suddenly the entire situation changed. I realized that always taking the things for granted will
never help me in the long run of my life.
In the college days, I was really behaving in a strange manner whenever I get angry or lose
my patience. Once I was roaming in the central market of Singapore and searching a shop for my
upcoming function. I was really frustrated and suddenly a small dumpy girl smashed with me
from the front side. She fell down as she wasn't able to control her weight. I was standing and
started shouting at her. Though it was her fault but I didn’t notice that she was a physically
challenged girl. I could have said her sorry instead of scolding. After a long time, I realized the
mistake when my frayed nerves were cooled down.
After school and college, I joined in an MNC company of Singapore. The cultural
environment was quite different from the school and college days and I haven’t changed my
attitude (Lourenço, Sappleton & Cheng, 2015). Once I had a small argument with my colleague
which gradually converted to a fight. Due to the irresponsible behaviour of mine, the fight started

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and continued for some time. Every time I was thinking to keep myself away from the fight but
that day I couldn’t stop my anger and suddenly that burst out. Due to this, I was forced to change
the team and advised to work in some other project. If I would I have controlled my anger on that
day, and then may be today I would have found myself in the top team of my company (Yadava,
2013).
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The hero and zero moments are the part of the life. Without the zero moments, it is
difficult to realize about the hero moments. Every time we learn from our mistakes which are the
best thing to move ahead in the life (Spencer, Smith & Watts, 2016). The hero moments of my life
mainly happened in the college days. I was brave and confident at that time because I had faced
the problems of being over confident and arrogant in the school days. I learned from my mistakes
and now avoiding it as much as possible (Nicholson & Wood, 2016). The casual attitude in the
year 2008 had a huge impact on my career. Gradually I improved that attitude and in the year
2012, I got the appreciation from the delicates for the same thing for which I blamed and scolded
years ago. My anger and egoistic nature also changed from the year 2008. I used to react to a very
small situation or when I lose my patience. After seeing the harsh reality of the life after joining
an organization, I tried to change my nature from being arrogant to a cool person. I learned many
things from a single mistake. The moment I had scolded the small girl in the year 2012 without
even knowing her fault and about which she was completely unaware, from that moment I have
removed the demon side from my life. The hero and zero moments both occurred in the same
year. The zero moment again happened after a long time in the year 2017 as I had again lost my
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patience. But at the same time, I had proved myself of being a true spirit by helping the young girl
from the train (Pitel & Alioshkina, 2016).
From both the hero and zero moments, one of the similar situation happened when I was
preparing for the presentation in the school and colleges days (Weir & Wilson, 2016). During the
school days, I was not aware of the reality and so was in habit of taking the things more casually.
That habit has put me in a miserable condition from which it took years to get up. Somehow I
have managed to come back to the track with full preparation and dedication (Brown, 2016). The
moment I had presented my topic in the college conference hall, I realized that, everything that we
dream needs patience and practice (Oham & Macdonald, 2016). The confidence is good but when
it exceeds to overconfidence, it leads to many destructive situations. I have learned that thing from
the moment I had stepped back from the stage in front of the huge audience in the school time.
My over confidence has never helped me throughout the career neither it will help in coming days
(Friedman & Gyorffy, 2014).

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