With the death of Steve Jobs, the media's attention has turned to his legacy as a business leader and his ability to inspire teams to create extraordinary products. The man, in short, may have been ...

If you want to be effective as manager, politician, parent or coach it helps to have a little bit of that X-factor leadership quality, charisma. In a previous blog post, I suggested that charisma is ...

Think of someone—a famous politician or a childhood friend—who is charismatic. Someone who lights up rooms and hearts with their mere presence. What is behind their allure? Their looks? The way they ...

In 2012, Felicia Spahr was living with her now fiancé's parents in the Bay Area, working at an ad agency, when she realized she wanted to start her own business. "I quit my job and leapt in," she ...