The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Quotes about charismatic (16 Quotes)
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight. . .
This is a great loss, ... and our thoughts now go out to the family and friends of Colette Besson. I believe that she made a tremendous contribution to world athletics, as a charismatic and determined athlete in an age when women's athletics was still developing.
He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.
He's really one of the smartest technologists I know, both in terms of the understanding of technology and where things are going to be moving. He's also a very charismatic leader, and he'll have the ability to bring in new energy and new outside involvement.
She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.
When they had (Nelson) Mandela shows in London the bill was really mixed and I don't think we lost any viewers as a result. African artists are strong, charismatic and compelling, and I think they hold people's attention.
There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.
All the voiceover actors that I've worked with are the most down-to-earth, charismatic, unaffected people, and the most talented people you could ever have the pleasure of knowing.
We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.
The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.
I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
It was a lot of talk and no action. Farrakhan is trying to have it both ways. He is a charismatic and charming speaker but he doesn't want to alienate anyone, nor does he want anyone to present their specific agenda.
I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.