Mr Dees

Mr. Dees has undoubtedly had enough leadership experience to last him a lifetime. When reading the case study on Mr. Dees, it is easy to be swayed into seeing only the pitfalls of leadership when in fact it is just as easy to see the experienced gained and losses it took to get there. This is to say that within his failures Mr. Dees gained all his triumphs. By dissecting the paragraphs in Mr. Dees story, I will reveal the significant learning to be gained from a leadership stand point.
1. As Mr. Dees left his lawyer’s office he thought about the last 25 years of his life. He certainly had some major successes in his education and professional life. He also found he had a few blind and unknown factors that mostly hurt him. His weaknesses and blind spots had cost him plenty. He had worked hard earning an under graduate degree in 3 ½ years in Berkeley, California; averaging 20 units a quarter and while working an average of 52 hours per week. He also married his junior year. He received his master’s degree a year later in international trade while mastering conversational Japanese. For seven years he very successfully climbed the corporate ladder raising a family and building security for his family by accumulating assets and saving for retirement and college educational expenses for his children. At the time this was the typical life and professional progression. Work hard, while being loyal to your employer provide for your family, live within your means, and save. Young adults of his generation lived to work while the youth of today seem to work to live. Not a bad concept he thought as he assessed his situation. Three times he had lost everything. After seven years of marriage his wife tired of his being transferred every nine months left with the children and moved back to California. He was so devastated that he did not even get a lawyer to represent himself. He just gave her everything including his retirement. He needed to become more self-aware. His current