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have in common was something they
did not have: they had little or no ‘charisma’
and little use either for the term
or what it signifies.” Supporting Drucker’s
claim, Brigham Young University
management professor Bradley Agle
studied the CEOs of 128 major companies
and found that those considered
charismatic by their top executives had
bigger salaries but not better corporate
performance.
We tend to overestimate how outgoing
leaders need to be. “Most leading in
a corporation is done in small meetings
and it’s done at a distance, through
written and video communications,”
Professor Mills told me. “It’s not done
in front of big groups. You have to be
able to do some of that; you can’t be a
leader of a corporation and walk into a
room full of analysts and turn white
with fear and leave. But you don’t have
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