Episode 6: Who Leads You?

Episode 6: Healthy charismatic leadership involves being willing to learn from others, instituting checks and balances, maintaining a sense of humor and a sense of humility, being responsive to complaints and corrections, and treating people well and respectfully.

When the charisma of a person or group is healthy, people are drawn to it and invigorated by it. When it’s not, their choices get tangled up with the leader’s need for total devotion and control.

Breaking away from toxic charismatic authority is hard work, but it can be done, and people can learn how to identify – and support – healthy authority and healthy groups.

SIGNS OF HEALTHY CHARISMATIC AUTHORITY

The leader or group has behavioral checks and balances in place.

The leader has healthy empathy and a realistic self-image.

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