Heads of state, chief executives and other leaders are not born with the power to inspire. They manufacture this magic dust in partnership with their followers The ...

As a socially inept teenager, Olivia Fox Cabane realized that she had two choices. “Either confine myself to a desert island, or learn how to make this human thing work,” she says. Cabane opted for ...

Toba Beta, author of Master of Stupidity, says this: “Charisma is the fragrance of the soul.” Webster’s Dictionary defines charisma as compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion on ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) takes pictures with supporters on a March 10 visit to Des Moines. (Rachel Mummey for The Washington Post) Liberals are horrified by Ron DeSantis, both in terms of what he ...

The Webster Dictionary defines charisma as “compelling attractiveness” or “charm that can inspire devotion in others or a divinely conferred power or talent.” Its derivation is the Greek word charis, ...

MOST of us understand charisma to be something inherent: either you have it or you don't. The charismatic enjoy charmed lives of premature promotions, multiple suitors and fast friends, whereas ...

Sometimes charismatic people don’t know their own strength. And sometimes they do. In private, charismatic people light up a room and make each person feel beloved. In public life, they’re the ones ...

I recently spoke to Olivia Fox Cabane about her new book, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism. Olivia has lectured at Stanford, Yale, Harvard, MIT, and ...

Charisma comes from the Greek word for “divine gift,” and back in 2015, political commentators thought Elizabeth Warren had a lot of it. Vox called the senator from Massachusetts “a more charismatic ...