From the course: Developing Executive Presence
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Emotional patterns
- In my executive presence research, I show video clips of public figures and ask people to rate them. A person that almost everyone agrees exhibits strong executive presence is Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State. He epitomizes the second key factor that drives executive presence, the emotional factor, poise. My friend, Mark Goldston, shared with me an example he saw in person, when Powell was speaking about leadership to 8000 people at a conference. Powell took questions after his speech, and a person blindsided him with a disrespectful, entirely irrelevant, even cruel question that had nothing to do with Powell's topic. The person asked, "I understand your wife "has been in treatment for mental instability. "Would you like to comment on that?" There was a gasp in the audience, and then silence. It's the sort of moment that has ruined the reputation of many public figures, who either overreact and appear unhinged, or underreact and look robotic, lifeless. In this pivotal…
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