1. INTRODUCTION Charisma is a strange, fascinating, and ultimately puzzling phenomenon. It converted a German postcard painter into the architect of the greatest worldwide genocide It turned a short Frenchman into a powerful emperor that dominated European political and military life for two decades. It transformed a Harvard drop-out student into a shrewd businessman, whose Windows® operating system now runs the vast majority of personal computers throughout the world. Charisma is something we …showed first 75 words of 2100 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2100 total…some dangerous traps it sets up, charisma remains a tricky quality- capable of doing as much good as evil. BIBLIOGRAPHY Hunt, James G. Leadership: A new synthesis. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1991. Hesselbein, Frances; Goldsmith, Marshall. The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies and Practices for the next Era. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996. Kotter, John P. The Leadership Factor. New York: The Free Press, 1988 Bryman, Alan. Leadership and Organizations. London: Rutledge & Kegan Paul, 1996