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“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.”

Source: The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success

“Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him - a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.”

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Author:Hal Lindsey

“Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.”

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Author:John P. Kotter

“We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But to organize ourselves in such a way that means correspond to the ends, and to organize ourselves in such a way as to create kind of human relationship that should exist in future society. That would mean to organize ourselves without centralize authority, without charismatic leader, in a way that represents in miniature the ideal of the future egalitarian society.”

“My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing.”

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Author:Rob Reiner

“Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.”

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Author:James C. Collins

“It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.”

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Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about 'hope' and 'change'. His name was Fidel Castro.”

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Author:Rafael Cruz

“If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.”

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Author:James C. Collins

“That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

Source: The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success

“Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?”

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)