Leadership,as peter drucker has written during the last 60 years, is not a formula. You can't find it in a bottle, a pill or a cereal box. I'm skeptical that you can find it in any book on leadership. (Biographies are better teachers.) The truth is, every good leader leads in his own way. Effective leaders start with their singular gifts and build on them. That's easy enough to write down on a matchbook cover. But now comes what can only be called the art of leadership: The best leaders seem to build on their weaknesses, also. Winston Churchill left a great clue about this in a quote: "Take your worst feature and make it prominent." Churchill's quote is about fashion, which explains, perhaps, why a short, roundish man would wear polka-dot bow ties, but it could have been about charisma and leadership, too.
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