Book Review Summary
Tittle: The Go Point
Summary:
This book, “The Go Point”, is describing about the author interviewing and writing about how the choices of the people who needs to make a decision. Although it isn't easy to make one, turning back is also not an option. Also, experience also counts in making a decision. You do not make an instant decision if you do not know how, what is happening or you are in an unfamiliar environment.
One example in the book is that it talks and analyses about the decision made by the firemen while fighting wild land fires in Colorado. This was a huge incident as fourteen wild land firefighters died while trying to put out the fire. So how are decisions made when the leader was at the “go point”? Most of the time when fighting wild land fires, decisions made are often haste and problems arises. Of course, wild land firefighters often come in separate groups. These groups will come together and a leader will be selected to lead the whole team to fight the larger fire. Already, there is a problem between the corporation of the teams. The leader also do not know what the other groups are good in and this results in a chance of choosing the wrong group to do the wrong job, eg: asking an accountant to do a secretary's work. In this example of the Colorado deadliest wild land fire, already there was another problem arose before the team started out to fight the fire. There was not a definite team leader in charge of the everyone and thus not one of the three group leaders went to check out on the weather and fire conditions, as required per normal, leading to a disastrous effect that will take place later, killing fourteen of them. Through this example, i have learn that being a leader is not easy. You are responsible for all the men under your command. And especially, when authorization of a leader is being blurred. You can still make decisions for the men under you, but also there can be other people telling you men to do different stuffs for the same thing. A clash of decision making will occur and the men will definitely become confused of what to do. Also, when under immense stress, one still have to be disciplined enough to stay calm and think through of what to do in those strenuous conditions. One must also not put your men in unnecessary risks if given the chance to do so.
Through this book, i realized that decision making is very important in our everyday lives, no matter what you are doing and where you are. Every single, little decision will always amount to this one “go point”. Depending on each individual, different decisions will be made. Of course, the results will also be different, whether in the good or the bad way. In this book, he has put up many templates on how to make these decisions proper. First, it is to suppress every individual's fear of making complicated decisions that affects many people. Second is to look to the future instead of looking to the past. True, you do learn and obtain experience from the past events, but it will not solve anything if you based your decisions on them. The scenario has changed and although the same problem arises, it does not mean that using the same method of solving the problem from the past will obtain the best possible effect. Thirdly, is to take the strategic initiative. Always ask yourself if the current strategy will still prove winning in the months ahead. If not, always look for alternate means.
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Oct Lim Kah Yeow
Flight 3
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gng to ocs tml liao. dun think i'll b updating frequently or fortnightly. lol. juz hate the confinement. cyall
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yoyoo! im baq to update! hahaha



lifes damn fuckin unpredictable aint it? i've been lookin thorugh old fotos and realised tt i realli missed the past. too many enjoyable memories with friends and ppl whom i liked! ((: rofl damn noob la. thinkin abt this now. [seems like i've gone off topic]

well its juz a damn random thing tt i've finalli got into this career. its juz by a stroke of luck tt i managed to even pass all the tests up till now. hahaha and im thinking that its juz a matter of time when i'll start to lose all the luck and start screwing up everything. maybe its juz tt im those kind of pessimistic person tt i'll have to start thinking like tt but its juz tt i've been going through 6, nearing 7 years of life like tt, happi go lucky. i even remember tt i laughed it off when i failed 7/8 subjects in sec 1 mid years! lol. thinking of it now realli makes me think again what was i doing at that time, maybe juz attracting attention from the girls nia? lol damn retarded ba if i eva was thinkin of tt. hmm thn again, it was realli fun trying to fail as many subs as u could =)





ok shall end off here at the moment! lol dun realli feel like bloggin anymore. theres like no pt bloggin aint it? lol it seems dead and there arnt as many ppl reading as b4. or shld i even say onli a few reads it but i realli appreciate u guys!! (: lol though im damn discouraged to blog, nt cuz of no ppl read but cuz realli damn lazy =x hahaha
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lol!! i killed a cockroach!! rofl damn shit man! this is realli the worst tt can happen to me at home! which is having a cockroach liek right in the middle of the night!! how sad can life get man! lol.

well. the story kind of goes like this. i was using the laptop in keon's room, when suddenly my younger brother, ks, came in and told me "hey my room gt cockroach. fuckin big n it flies.' i was thinkin ' SHIT MAN FUCKIN HELL OMG. BBQWTFGGNORE. ' wow was wad came out of my mouth though. rofl. not spouting these nonsense to my bro. thn i went to the living room to grab sum newspapers. lol. rolled it up into a bat like shape b4 gng into the WARGROUND. tt fuckin piece of shiet played hide n seek wif me! it was like hiding in my bag. n i was lucky to b randomly hitting anything tt's near the window. hahaha. i was actualli gng to wack the curtains but my instinct juz told me to wack my bag. damn ciji. thn woo!! it came out. rofl. thn it crawl crawl on my bed pillow n bolster. nabei. fckin dirtyin my area. but heng heng it flew to sumwhere at my bro's table. hahaha thn i wacked it damn hard wif the "bats". wooo!! it disappeared!!! i was so shocked!! OMG LA. it went missing when i wacked it! thn i was like check clearing my bats see if it crawled on one of them or not. well, it din n it apparated. lol. thn ks checked the floor and adacadabra! there u go!! a dead cockroach lying on the fuckin floor (: lol too sum bygon for mosquito n sprayed it to cfm its dead. hahahaha. there was sum fluid on my bro's table's side. SHIOK. ok i knw this is fucked up killin small little lives but i juz had to to do. its shocking but yes. hahaha. im sucha fucker. anyways b4 i killed it, i had to clear everything from my bed, which includes the stuffs tt i brought home from camp, eg:uniforms and clothes.


ps
I HATE COCKROACHES







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haha hi ppl! its been damn long since i last blogged! hahha this is due to being so damn bz in singapore. zzzz. u have all the time in aussie to do it man! to think and to type wad u wanna say in a beta phrased and nicer way of presenting it to other ppl. ahahhaa.
soo.. for the past few days, i've been staying in camp! its like chao sian! cuz the senior batches used to not stay in for my scenerio. =( its all bcuz of sum stupid guy. ninabei ^@^$#%#%#$*&%(* [apologies for the amt of profanities used] hahaha but well, there r its advangates, like i get to save alot of money =) esp on transport and food! ahahahahahaha whheeeee.
and yesterday ish like national day! happi bday singapore! lol i sound so patriotic. went to gym in the morning wif jer, and did loads of exercises tt i haven done in a super long time! and well, i did wake up wif a body of aches this afternoon. after tt went to jennie house to mahjong abit. lol i was like damn late and i need to leave early. so paiseh abt it la. but well, since it happened i shalnt think anymore. (: went to vivo to meet the guys and walked ard while waitin for toff. he's the same old toff, neva early. lol =x but b4 gng to vivo, i went to meet matthew to get his psp slim from him! hahaha its still looks damn new to me!! hmm thn went to chevrons to song ktv! lol damn shiok!! shld have extended the time to at least 4 hrs! woooo!! hahahaha damn long neva sing liao. we're like damn high too! haha thn aft tt deliberated on whether to go to nic house to stay over. hahaha had real fun playin wif his wii again! ahahah played mario cart and mario brawl. tt game damn fuckin fun hahah shiok!!

ok ppl! loads of pictures to upload here. hahaha all from aussie. its taken me days to realli b able to sit down here n upload it all.





















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WOO GUYS!!! THE LAST FLIGHT'S IN ABT 9 HRS TIME. FINALLI!! WHOO! hahaha after 11 hrs, i wont have to eva think abt flying anymore! can finalli go to rest. =) ahahaha anyway ppl, life's fine here. lol. instructor brought curry chicken over today for our lunch. thx mr hyacinth! hahaha its like super nice la! n he came all the way down from his house juz to bring us the chicken! woo! haha ok....

today watched 'the day after tml' its still a damn cool show! even though after i watched it years ago in the cinema, i still love it man. lol. gre8 show to rewatch for those interested in rewatching nice movies. and also watched the polar express. ahahahaha. cant believe im watchin cartoon (: but i can tell u the shows not bad quite nice. lol damn family and kiddy show. lol.

ok la, time to go to sleepy land. need more rest for test.

missing SG
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WOO!! finalli! 3 more flights and im done wif the course. ahahaha. lifes still gre8 here, wif all the movies n food. however, it juz gets damn boring, as everything we do is monotonous already, as what i've told some of u.

ok i wanna go baq to SG asap. soo i shld b baq in 2 wks time. cyall man.
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