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Changing Minds Group: Leadership Styles: Do Leaders have to have charisma?

Submitted by David Straker on June 26, 2012 - 1:45pm.

Up from the Hub archives. Originally published 2007

Hub member David Straker shares with us just a glimpse of the masses of useful learning in his changing Minds website...

Charisma is just one leadership style. But, the assumption is too often that leaders have to have 'charisma'.

So, what is 'charismatic' leadership? And do you have to have 'charisma' to be a leader?

Assumptions

Charm and grace are all that is needed to create followers.

Conducting and leadership video

Submitted by David Straker on June 27, 2009 - 11:43am.

Here's a nice video found with conductor talking about the parallels with leadership:

 

Poor old Gordon

Submitted by David Straker on June 5, 2009 - 2:48pm.

Poor old Gordon Brown. He's pretty much on the ropes, it seems. Even the local elections are giving him a battering.

What's the right leadership thing for him to do now? Should he fight? Should he resign with what dignity is left? 

Leading when you're embattled must be a particularly tricky thing as anything you do is likely to be framed negatively.

 Dave 

Swines and crises

Submitted by David Straker on June 5, 2009 - 2:45pm.

The swine fever thing seems to be quietly bumping along the bottom of the news. There's a notion that it will come back with a vengeance in September, when schools return after the holidays.

Leadership in  pandemics is kind of interesting. In normal crises, people rush to help one another, but when approaching others may kill you or your family, then people avoid one another. There could be mass absences and a significant unwillingness to be led.

How else could leadership be different in a pandemic?

 

Dave 

Duh

Submitted by David Straker on April 13, 2009 - 8:13pm.

http://sixdisciplines.blogspot.com/2009/04/change-management-is-changing-how-you.html

 It seems we learn and relearn this. How many times have I seen studies about change that can be summed up as 'It's the people, stupid!'.

 Double duh,

 Dave 

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