Let's face it: charisma matters | John Antonakis | TEDxLausanne

One day John's research findings gave him a shock. Children could reliably pick winners of parliamentary runoff elections only using facial appearances! More studies from politics and business helped confirm that looks could determine a leader's success. Rather than switching careers to plastic surgery, John asked: how can leaders go beyond being "faced" to connect with their audience via words and actions? John found an answer: charisma. He will show what charisma is, how it can be measured, and why it matters, from the U.S. presidency to the most frugal communication medium ever used – Twitter.

As a child John Antonakis watched his parents successfully managing their businesses, winning community leadership elections, and South Africa transitioning from apartheid to democracy. All because of leadership. John became a professor at the University of Lausanne where he carries out research on, what else? Leadership.

[KimsLantern]

“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, *no matter what the Charmer had in mind”*
-Kurt Vonnegut.

[KrishnaKumar-onjv]

This video is really cool. He speaks in a very colourful ways and shows you how to be more charismatic. It is actually easy to be charismatic if you follow the steps he has in the charisma triangle. This talk is also based on a lot of science and is not like many other blah blah talks that are based on opinion. A must see.

[juliethamson]

This talk, along with the talk of Amy Cuddy are the two most important talks on TED about leadership. Cuddy focuses on nonverbal behavior and Antonakis on the rhetorics (how to speak) using a variety of techniques to project a vision and to be more charismatic. A must see for leaders (or if you want to become one).

[h.d.]

I think he is charismatic. I expected to be bored (this was assigned for a class) but I was engaged almost immediately.

[sunitasehmi]

excellent presentation love the way he encourages us in saying we can all learn this skill....

[più_lento__]

This guy looks low key like José Mourinho

[fafafagat]

The most memorable thing about this is the guy at the end with the badass eyepatch.

[AxoMoo]

Listen to this guy. 100% accurate. A friend of mine is manager at Google right now from cheer charisma and now is plain egocentric. People like him. He's likable and THAT itself is a FACT.

[mariachow]

excellent talk! esp. loved the point about how charismatic speech can equally motivate workers (compared to monetary incentives).

[BehtiGangaofRandomness]

THIS IS LIKE THE MOVIE INTERSTELLAR FOR ME.. PASSED AT A HEIGHT OF 10 THOUSAND MILES. There after I realise, how wisely he used the phrase with "I" and "WE".



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[TIOLIOfficial]

This is so interesting and fascinating at the same time.

[CNuX-ytho]

Now imagine a 10 out 10 faced guy becoming charismatic and equally competent at their respective field. Sounds like the perfect human.

[vernaharris]

"They haven't chosen their faces."😅
This man is too funny!

[warriorsofsuccess]

This is some amazing information. Every leader NEEDS to know this!

[aezerbefsefse]

amazing video, i love social psychology

[funny_]

I had been studying charisma and think am capable of giving a Ted-comment on the topic, so here it comes:-

Salience is Charisma. In Psychology, Attention is a function of Salience. People tend to treat people who are more salient as more causal. In Switzerland, confession cases are required to be recorded in an angle which focuses on both the convict and the interrogator in order to avoid a false confession. Why is that so? How does the angle of recording affect someone's judgement? It is because when we have only face to focus upon, we treat them as more causal. If you are any minority in a group, you will be treated more causal, based on the predicament.

Charismatic people are Tall, good speaker, good Listner, *good story tellers*, enthusiastic, charming (our attention) and know how to handle attention and pass it to the crowd in the back. That hits the brain with positive emotions.
These all are salient features. Now, don't be an attention seeker. Be worthy of people's attention, that is charming. Speak clearly and with confidence, people will pay attention to it. They will judge you positively (Admirably) and you will come off as charismatic. Also, you cannot act out charismatic. You can change to be charismatic.

[double-helix-xy]

good video, I liked the story about the starfish.

[Weezie]

Simple and straight to the point...fake it!

[addressedtokill]

I had a general manager of a hotel who looked competent/someone you'd vote for and everyone who didn't work with him described him as a 'well respected businessman'. That staff knew he was a sham, and sure enough the executives drained the hotels assets with large salaries, lived off the hotel's former good reputation for a time, didn't reinvest in the hotel and eventually declared bankruptcy. We lost our jobs and a month later he was working for a big chain.

[MrLiyongo]

just because someone studies basketball science, it doesn’t mean they can play basketball. he never said he was charismatic but he made studies and did his homework on it.