These events, even though generally seen as crises and negative, Gardner et al. (2005) believe that positive event can also bring about development in leadership. In Mr Liang’s life, some trigger event might probably be his decision of going away from his village in Borneo to Jakarta to seek job opportunity and the first time he opens his own business not long after.
• Opinion on ‘Trigger events’
For me trigger events can be seen as a motivation, seeing how far he has come from the beginning, and keeps him on his toe for any situation that may arise that may cause some issue to his job or his new business. That’s why he keeps pushing harder to reach something that his whole family could not achieve before, financial security.
3. Leader self-awareness
Self-awareness part of authentic leader is described as having the cognition and also trust in individuals’ motivation, feelings, desires, and self-relevant cognitions (Kernis, 2003). It includes the realization of one’s strengths and weaknesses, the reflection of “values, identity, emotions, goals, knowledge, talents and/or capabilities often times triggered by external events” (Gardner et al.,