Too Charismatic? It May Hurt You in the Workplace
You spell bind your audiences. Everyone laughs at your jokes. You've even received a standing ovation after a speech. You have charisma . But is that a good -- or bad -- thing? A new study finds that charismatic leaders do better when they're somewhere in the middle -- not too charismatic but not lacking charisma altogether. Those with lower amounts (but not too low) of charisma are more effective, according to newswise.com. Too much may hinder a leader, the website reports, based on research published by the American Psychological Association. “Our findings suggest that organizations may want to consider selecting applicants with mid-range levels of charisma into leadership roles, instead of extremely charismatic leaders,” says Jasmine Vergauwe, a doctoral student at Ghent University and lead author of the study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . Vergauwe studied subjects using a charismatic personality test, 56 questions, known a