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Key Traits Associated With Leadership

Mahatma Gandhi

Charismatic leaders

Charisma gives the presence of

the person who has it

“a dimension of to be”.

It is not accidentally that the word charisma has the same etymologic root with the word enthusiasm

(“en-theos” = to release God from us).

Generally, charisma is associated with power. Along the history, we have many examples of charismatic leaders

for the example

Adolf Hitler.

Big Five Personality Traits

Benito Mussolini

Charisma definition

Napoleon Bonaparte

Charisma it might be defined as the personality trait, mainly expressed by non-verbal language

(attitude, gestures, look, voice, etc.),

but as well by verbal language.

The word charisma has, first of all, a religious origin: it is the mane given to extraordinary spiritual gifts.

In Greek, charisma means “divine grace or favor”.

Only later, the word charisma meant the authority of a known, prestigious person, the influence such person exercises on someone else.

The root “charis”, which names grace.

Manipulation

Therefore, the three classic meanings of the word “grace” deserve our attention:

Martin Luther king

Manipulation is pathological communication, understanding by this communication hidden and malicious intentions, at the extent that the interlocutor’s interests are.

In the best case, ignored by the manipulator and its self-determination undermined.

The manipulator replaces the will of the manipulated with its own will, kidnaps its free arbiter either by offering false pretenses for an apparently free choice or by exploiting the fundamental needs (subsistence or information, integration and affirmation) and of social reflexes or by inducing emotions and mobilizing

the individual

or collective subconscious.

- Charm (in French the word “charme” has as first meaning “spell”) of beauty, joy,pleasure;

- Favor, benevolence, courtship, signs of respect, condescendence, desire to like (la bonne grace);

- Acknowledgement, reward, remuneration, wage, gifts received only because one is king, deity;

Charisma, leadership and personality traits

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