Week6: Chapter 8 "Lighten Up!"

"Find something to celebrate and something to laugh about."

Being realistic is of course necessary to survive, but at the same time, having optimistic view is necessary to keep one's motivation. And in order to be optimistic, tactics shown in this chapter are quite workable: find something to celebrate and to laugh about.

I think, celebrating something or laughing about something means sort of teamwork that nourishes the feeling of fellowship. The best moment people start to have the feeling of fellowship is that they do something together, especially something with big impact. That can be in the form of extremely hard work or ultimately exciting moment. The case dealt here is the latter one. And I guess everyone commonly has this kind of experience, such as school festivals. 

The notable thing of Shackleton is, I think, he was not only aware of this law but also intentionally utilized it by artificially creating or finding something to celebrate or laugh about.
In that sense, we can find the tactics of "enhancing" here again. (Please remember the two scenery pictures I posted before)

Now, reflecting back my personal experience, I'm not sure whether I was doing it intentionally or not, but I did have lots of moments of celebrating and laughing together with the members of org comm. For example, when I succeeded in making some kind of contract with party, I shared that incident with the members by the words of kind of mood-elevating. Also, quite often members shared things to celebrate or laugh about which is completely irrelevant to our group's worklol To be honest, I don't want to think that as a "tactics" of leadership, instead, I prefer to think it as just a natural incident between "friends", but from the academic view, yes this episode involved the component useful to talk about leadership tactics...