A full moon blanks out all the stars around it. It's what those TV evangelists have. Jack Kennedy oozed it-but so did Hitler and Charles Manson. Con artists, charlatans, and megalomaniacs can make it their instrument as effectively as the best CEO's entertainers, and Presidents.
Charismatic visionaries lead people ahead-and sometimes astray.
Today, if you're able to galvanize people into action, all the thinking, the analysis, the strategic prioritizing doesn't matter at all. Sears CEO Arthur Martinez. This usually means a call for better leadership and for many it is a call for charismatic leadership, something that we think we know when we see it but is very hard to define. Yet it isn't that simple. While on the one hand we call for more charismatic leadership, we also have a distrust of charismatic leadership.