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Article Overview: some thoughts on the nature and use of charisma.

charisma and my leadership of british columbia's first everest expedition.

CHARISMA: Desire to be led involves charisma. Where does charisma fit in with all this? Fortunately This leader has been told he has some charisma. Terence Schaffer, the once president of the University of Toronto, postulated that each person in a democratic society contributes his or her own unique developmental conflicts and heroic imagery to the creation of an idealised political leader, and needs to attribute this indefinable quality of charisma to him. The need for charisma itself can be explained by classic Freudian psychology where the pivotal mother is replaced the primordial father as the key bonding force in group psychology. It then follows that the child, separated from the mother at birth, seeks to recapture oneness or its identity through an outside heroic political image which is a projection of the lost part of itself. This is not a delusion of grandeur on this author's behalf but an attempt to understand this phenomenon and use it at this level of operations. The more charisma a leader has for a team and the public, the more credibility the team has and the more money can be raised. Public relations are then much easier. There can be a danger in charisma. The unrestricted rise in and exercise of self-aggrandising power has caused a generation of destructive achievers (DA's). A DA may have leader charisma but his self-interest can erode the ethical base of the organization and can destroy it. If a leader is perceived as acting purely in self-interest - "the team is putting him on top" - then he's had it, in the final analysis, as a leader. Hitler, Joe McCarthy, and to a certain extent Richard Nixon and george Bush were prime examples of self interested action. People in organizations have to be educated to understand power and prevent people using it for their own purposes only. People also have to realize that counterproductive behaviours can be normal and acceptable to a power seeker. Businessmen can be ruthless to get to the top. They have to be watched to obtain a more ethical use of power in an organization. Our team watched out constantly for self interest.

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