Charismatic Leadership

1. INTRODUCTION Charisma is a strange, fascinating, and ultimately puzzling phenomenon. It converted a German postcard painter into the architect of the greatest worldwide genocide It turned a short Frenchman into a powerful emperor that dominated European political and military life for two decades. It transformed a Harvard drop-out student into a shrewd businessman, whose Windows® operating system now runs the vast majority of personal computers throughout the world. Charisma is something we …

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