Charismatic Leadership: Much Ado About Nothing

Editor's Note: In a 1988 Wall Street Street Journal entitled Leadership: More Doing Than Dash, Peter F. Drucker demolished the notion that effective leadership is linked to charisma.Jean Lipman-Blumen in The Drucker Difference (McGraw-Hill, 2010) penned a beautiful chapter entitled A Pox on Charisma. She provides provocative insights and thoughtful prescriptions about leadership in today's frightening world. Joseph Maciariello—considered by many the foremost expert on... To continue reading this story Click Here