Being a leader is all about your ability to connect with others, whether via Twitter or during a formal business dinner. Follow these 5 tips to increase your charisma and make meaningful connections.
If you want to be charismatic, your mind can't wander while you're one-on-one with a customer or colleague. Here's a simple one-minute exercise to help you focus.
Olivia Fox Cabane, author of "The Charisma Myth," talks with Fast Company about why charisma is so critical to business and how special Jedi mind tricks can help get you there.
I was exchanging emails the other day with Dave Ulrich, my co-author on Asian Leadership, and asked him what he was working on. He answered that he was pretty interested in the link between CEO actions and stock price.
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We focus on what it means to be in charge to understand leadership, but this is a confused mixture of leadership and management. We need to look at leadership in a broader sense to develop a general understanding.
You may need charisma to get elected to high office, but there is such a thing as small scale local leadership. For example, a technical expert could promote a new product idea to her colleagues by demonstrating how it works or by making a hard-hitting factual case for it. Our concept of leadership is totally distorted by our narrow focus on business and political leadership - what it means to get appointed to high office. Style is only a situational matter.
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Sadly there is much more brightness (knowing what is brand new) and smartness (knowing what will sell) than there is wisdom (knowing what is important and what is worth fighting for and what is not) in the world. If you want to bathed in wisdom from one of the wisest men on the planet you will want to attend the following event.
