"Aura of command"

[asterroc]

I've often heard individuals described as having an "aura of command", "aura of power", or "aura of leadership". Such people are described as having a magnetic personality, of drawing people to them, of entering a room and everyone immediately snaps to attention, of having their every word paid attention to.

I have never met such a person. Do these people, does this quality, really exist? Or is it just a literary hyperbole that people have bought into and pretend exists in real life? Is it just really rare and that's why I haven't encountered it? Is it really common and it's just been the luck of the draw that I haven't met such people? Or am I just insensitive to it?

Comments

[bobdeloyd.livejournal.com]

Maybe you are one of those "aura of command", "aura of power", or "aura of leadership" kind of person and just haven't realized it. That may be why you haven't seen one before. Most teachers are like that ;)
//bob

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm terrified of. :-P Even among my colleagues at work I haven't noticed anyone with this supposed aura, and recently people have been pressuring me to take positions of more authority myself (union president, department chair). My attitude towards those sorts of things is I don't really want to do them, but there's so many incompetent people doing them that sometimes I'm forced to do so for my own self-defense.

[bobdeloyd.livejournal.com]

I kind of got that feeling from your post.