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This essay covers three different types of leadership strategies: Charismatic leadership, transformal leadership and strategic leadership. The paper explains that charismatic leadership is based on one's ability to charm followers into performing tasks. Transformal leadership occurs when management also functions as followers and lets the work force do some of the leading. Strategic leadership is upper-management making decisions to shape the vision and direction of the organization.

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"Charismatic leadership is a type of leadership based on one's ability to have charisma and lead through inspiration or magnetic charm. This type of leadership has come under scrutiny over the last several years. Managers are frequently told that they need to be charismatic in order to have employees follow their lead, and students are being taught these techniques as they prepare themselves for the business world. However, Blackwell, Gibson, and Hannon in their 1998 article, "Charismatic Leadership: The hidden controversy," posed three particular questions in regards to the effectiveness of charismatic leadership. First, they ask is charismatic leadership a positive thing? This question stems from a business perspective of needing people to be charismatic or not. In short, how effective is this trait in the business world?"

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