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Leadership Persona
by
Khairul Mazlan
Do you know anyone that different when they are in
the office and when they are with their family but still
a great leader?
Have you ever see your leader showing a different
character in meeting rooms and in the office floor?
a fish to climb trees while a monkey to swim deep. We
still can teach a monkey (although success rate is low)
to learn swimming but with a limit to its capabilities.
The second thing that impacts personas is actually our
motivation. What motivate us or what triggers us to
change. Its either we are going away from a distance
pain, or we are going into the pleasure ahead of us. It
can be a daily thing or hourly thing for us to keep on
changing our persona.

We will notice that some leaders are really in love and

Well, it is a yes for me. I have seen various leaders are
soft with their spouse but really mean like a tiger in
really good at the first meeting but then look like a
an office environment. Look back what is the envi-
totally different person the moment he steps into the
ronment they are in? What is their motivation at that
other meeting room. And if you though the leader is a
moment? Once you can observe it, then you can tackle
“she” you can guess it wrong because he is a man. tall
the issue at hand and handle the leaders and also you
dark and good looking man.
subordinate.
If you are doing marketing or sales, do you notice the
That is normally how I inspire people from great to
same person giving different respond for every cycle
be legendary!
of the moment you meet them? Have you thought
they have two characters all together in the same body?
Well, actually it is not that we have different characters
in our body. normally we have different persona em-
bedded in our body trigger by environment and moti-
vation. As much as we love or hate at our self, the en-
vironment will always be impacting our personalities.
It is a power that cannot be fought by ourselves alone.
That’s why environmental change can only be consid-
ered successful if it is done by majority. We cannot ask

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