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Old 01-22-2016, 04:19 PM   #60
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Being a junior leader in my hobby (army reserves(master bombardier)) and in my job (crew lead, 2 subordinates) I love making mistakes. I learn something new every time I do something wrong. If anything, it's helping my career more than hurting it. Boss sees I'm eager to learn and get my hands dirty. In the past 2 months, I've gone from arranging, managing and doing 50k jobs to now working on a 6M job. I better not screw the pooch on this one.
Amen! ^^^This, ladies and gentlemen, is leadership.

One of my lifelong mantras (came up with it myself) It's fun to be right but it's valuable to be corrected.

Also, save the mistakes for when you can afford them. Consider them the Non-Recoverable Engineering costs.
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