Charisma
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Defining Charisma:
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‘A special personal quality or power of an individual making
him or her capable of influencing or inspiring large numbers
of people’
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Weber:
Charisma is a ‘certain quality of and individual personality by
virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as
endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specific
exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as not to be
accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of
divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the
individual concerned is treated as a leader’
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