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\nI asked a few leaders about their concept of leadership.  Typical answers are:  it\u2019s a position, role, job, or responsibility.  One rare response I heard is that \u201cleadership is acting.\u201d  You fill in a leadership position and you\u2019re expected to act in a certain acceptable manner. To be effective as a President, you\u2019ve got to look and sound Presidential.<\/p>\n

Duterte and Trump<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their detractors may not like it, but Rodrigo Duterte and Donald Trump are presumptive winners in their separate quests for leadership posts in opposite parts of the world.  Their similarity doesn’t end there.<\/p>\n

Both leaders don’t exactly fit the conservative mold of traditional leaders.  They make quick, binding statements that they later reverse or \u201cclarify.\u201d  A little more finesse in their deportment or language can improve their image, but they didn’t seem to bother about them during the campaign. Their followers saw a brighter future with them at the helm.  WYSIWYG. What you see is what you get.<\/p>\n

Authenticity<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the time of the Greek philosophers, to the time of Shakespeare, and until Bill George wrote his book in 2003, people have been amazed at how authenticity became a revered trait of great leaders.  In Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet, Polonius said, \u201cTo thy own self be true.\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard of different types and styles of leadership \u2013 benevolent, fierce, autocratic, tough-minded, failure-tolerant, participative, or servant leadership.  Starting in early 2000s, authentic leadership became part of the vocabulary of modern management art and science.<\/p>\n

From a practical sense, if you were the follower, you wouldn’t be comfortable with a leader who wears different masks.  During office hours, your boss is a non-nonsense stickler to the rules, flagellating employees to produce the last ounce of productivity.  At five o\u2019clock, he transforms before your eyes to an inveterate gambler, womanizer and drunkard.  Before the clock strikes 12, he\u2019s a henpecked husband bringing midnight snacks for the wife and kids.<\/p>\n

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