STRATEGY IN MY PERSONAL LIFE
Strategy forms an important part of every individuals life. As defined by Watkins (2007) the
term strategy involves the process of decision making and resource allocation towards
ensuring set objectives are effectively accomplished. During my high school years, I recollect
setting out to be elected as the Head Prefect of the school in my third year. The roadmap
involved getting popular on campus within the first two years.
The deliberate strategy which involved measures carefully planned to arrive at an expected
outcome (Mintzberg and Waters,1985) was to get active in numerous school activities. These
activities included sports, clubs and the school cadet. At a point I also got involved in the
Student Representative Council performing a minimal role as an Executive Without
Portfolio. My involvement in these different settings brought me closer to both lecturers and
students which set out a good platform towards achieving my goal.
Nonetheless, the journey towards this objective came along with some challenges. These
challenges presented themselves in the form of getting unpopular at a point due to poor
performance on the teams, debate club and in class coupled with public speaking issues.
These presented a setback towards my goal of becoming head prefect. Learning from these
setbacks I adopted some emergent strategies towards salvaging the situation. As defined by
Bozkurt and Kalkan (2013) emergent strategies deal with measures focused on unforeseen
circumstances realized on the journey to achieving set objectives. Consequently my emergent
strategy was to reduce my involvement in some school activities while maintaining contacts
made from them. Additionally through constant practice to improve my public speaking skills
I was able to achieve my objective.
REFERENCES
Bozkurt, Ö. Ç., & Kalkan, A. (2013) ‘Strategic focus in Turkish SMEs: emergent or
deliberate strategies?’, Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 99, pp. 929-937.
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