Hacking Charisma

An anonymous reader writes: "Steve Jobs had it. George Clooney has it. So does Don Draper. Charisma is intangible but powerful: the personality trait that's used to win friends and influence people. Olivia Fox Cabane wasn't born with it. She was a high-school outcast, a socially awkward teenager baffled by the nuance of social interactions. But she was also an analytical thinker. She believes she has reverse engineered the secret of charm, and is so successful that executives now pay her to do the same for them. Cabane's self-help spiel comes with a dose of science. In this article, Teresa Chin examines the science of charisma, and asks why exactly Silicon Valley needs a charisma coach in the first place."

Comments

Ob.

[grub]

Hitler had charisma in spades. He loved dogs and even had a girlfriend.
People always forget about the good things he did.

Olympic

[rossdee]

Mark Todd had a horse called Charisma, he won gold at the Olympics equestrian

Re:Here's the key phrase

[NotDrWho]

The old Socratic rift: "Intelligence is realizing that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Wisdom is realizing that neither does anyone else."

Bah

[cmdr_klarg]

Charisma is a dump stat...