Charasmatic
Leader
Charisma
can be defined as a personal attractiveness or interestingness that
enables you to influence others, it is the power of attraction, it
is pure personal magnetism.
Charisma
has an essentially genetic ground:
Only a
few people are born with charisma and others (the majority) aren’t.
However,
although it is very difficult to acquire, you can learn certain techniques
that allow you to partially substitute its absence or enhance the
charisma that you already have.
It is very
difficult to specify why one person has charisma and another not,
but the truth is that the first “wins the hearts of people”
and the second produces “indifference”.
The charismatic
leader generates admiration.
Charisma
helps the way towards leadership; it is not an indispensable condition:
You can
be an extraordinary leader without having charisma and you can have
lots of charisma and not be a leader.
The characteristics
that define a charismatic leader is their capacity to seduce, they
have an enormously attractive personality with which they mange to
attract other members of the group.
Charisma
unites the group around the leader.
The charismatic
leader is usually also a good communicator; he has a natural power
to persuade.
In front
of a charismatic leader the team usually loose certain objectiveness.
The charismatic leader enjoys the benevolent judgement of his subordinates.
They “pardon”
his mistakes and take pleasure from his success.
The problem
that the charismatic leader faces is that the organization can become
extremely dependant on him.
It is very
difficult to find a substitute.
A danger
that especially threatens the charismatic leader is very easy to become
vain.
The group
show him so much respect that it is not strange that he looses his
sense of reality.
