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Warren Miller, CPA, CFA
United States
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Nearly all of the most destructive leaders in history--Stalin, Hitler, Mao, et al.--were highly charismatic leaders. On a PBS program more than thirty years ago, I watched the late management scholar, Peter Drucker, say (I wrote it down!): "Charismatic leadership is non-leadership because the charisma of the leader blinds followers to the absence of substance in the leader's message... until it's too late." That's not to say that all leaders with charisma are bad. They're not. But charisma is a distraction and can be enormously destructive when it trumps substance. (...) Read more? Sign up for free
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Borje Vickberg
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Freudian Remark
English is not my mother tounge. I like the remark of Warren Miller. Maybe it takes an American to construct the phrase" it TRUMPS substance", when discussing charisma.
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Warren Miller, CPA, CFA
United States
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Many Thanks, Borje
Truth be told, the pun was utterly unconscious. But your comment elicited a loud guffaw from me just now, and I do appreciate it!
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Benjamin Motlhabane
Consultant, South Africa
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Charisma Has Its Place in Organisations
Applied correctly and in appropriate doses, charis (...)
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Graham Williams
Management Consultant, South Africa
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What is the Motivation to Become More Charismatic?
Warren has stated what shouldn't be ignored. Being (...)
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