Charisma - A Hazy Topic Equated To Another Hazy Topic

Adding to the confusion is that the concept of “charisma” is frequently equated to or confounded with another hazy topic in organizational behavior, “transformational leadership” (Yukl 1999). And, despite the best efforts of scholars to constructively critique these two constructs so that leadership research can move on (e.g., van Knippenberg & Sitkin 2013), equating two fundamentally different concepts like charisma and transformational leadership has made the fog over the leadership landscape thicker still.