How does charisma relate to effective leadership and what cross-cultural implications might derive from charismatic communication?

Charismatic leadership. Charisma is a peculiar, strange and puzzling phenomenon. It transformed a small time painter from Austria into the epitome of a demagogue, and ultimately the draftsman of the greatest genocide through history. He took a nation, crippled in its economy, with extreme unemployment, and turned it into one of the most powerful nations in the world, in only ten years. On the other side of the equation of evil, but also a great …

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