Gosling subtly allows Dean's eager, child-like charisma to become, if not soured, then shopworn, played-out.
She was a classic introvert who exhibited few of the typical qualities associated with leadership, like charisma and aggressiveness.
In "Dungeons and Dragons," for instance, character attributes like charisma or strength are assigned according to a point system.
Soft qualities like openness and sensitivity are as critical to success as harder qualities like charisma, aggressiveness, and always being right.
He fused a liberal stance on some social issues with Blair-like charisma to create a new kind of Tory; the kind that would unite the nation under a Conservative government.
Ideology happens to be one factor that we can measure somewhat well — at least as compared to something like "charisma" — but it is plausible that there are other factors that outweigh it.
He taught me that soft qualities like openness, sensitivity, and thoughtful intelligence are at least as critical to management success as harder qualities like charisma, aggressiveness, and always being right.
While incarcerated, he uses his Hannibal Lecter-like charisma to assemble like-minded maniacs into a cult, whose purpose is to create mayhem on the outside by slicing up as many innocent people as possible.
A Republican Party that both talked about the scale of the fiscal problems the country faces and that offered serious solutions would, I believe, perhaps ingenuously, be rewarded at the ballot box, just as Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, has done surprisingly well despite his stinginess and lack of Obama-like charisma.
While some leadership scholars try to plumb the depths of rulers' psyches -- or measure specific traits like charisma, motivation and emotional intelligence -- others ignore personality altogether, emphasizing political systems and institutions, the reciprocal benefits of leader-follower interactions or any number of economic and social variables.
