Strategy is more dependent on courage and humility than talent and charisma
Jules Goddard and Tony EcclesLondon Business School and Cass Business School, City University
Misconception: Leaders need to be charismatic.
"We dream vaguely; but we dread precisely." Anon
If you ask CEOs to nominate the business leaders they have most admired, they will invariably refer to a small group of well-known, highly entrepreneurial men at the top of large corporations: leaders such as Sir Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Alan Lafley.
If you then ask them to say what precisely they...