“Celebrity does not equal leadership. . .”

“Celebrity does not equal leadership. We live in an age that confuses the two. Celebrity does not equal leadership. They are inversely correlated, just as charisma is inversely correlated with lasting results.

For those of you who are burdened with the affliction of charisma, it’s okay—you can overcome it. It’s like any other handicap in life, but the evidence is becoming increasingly clear: those who have charisma need to guard against it. We used to think of it is a leadership asset. It is as much a leadership liability. Why might that be?

One, things then center on the leader—what happens when they go away? And two, you want to know a very dangerous combination? To be charismatic and wrong. Because I can convince you to do a lot of things through charisma. If I lack charisma, I have to win the argument based on merit and fact and argument and logic.”