Michael Dadoun, CEO and co-founder of UpClick, has helped the company grow and flourish in the extremely competitive e-commerce solutions industry. The company is in a position to offer a powerful and valuable service for the digital goods industry.

1. Michael Dadoun

2.  Any modern organization is as good as its leader. Productive
employees mean productive organization and only a good
leader can understand what keeps his subordinates
motivated and performing to their best. Michael Dadoun,
the CEO of UpClick maintains an optimistic view and uses
passion as a catalyst for generating enthusiasm among his
subordinates. He is a leader who always brings out the best
in his employees by helping them see things in a positive
light.
 Despite the higher level of knowledge and new approaches
to thinking, modern employees want to be led; it is just
that they are pretty selective about the type of person who
will lead them. Some important qualities that new age
workers wish to see in their leader are as follows:

3.  The first thing that comes to our mind when we think
about people like Martin Luther King Jr, Steve Jobs,
Mahatma Gandhi, etc. is their charisma.
 Charisma, derived from the Greek word for ‘gift’ is a
trait of a person that sets him apart from the hoi-polloi
by virtue of their having certain extraordinary qualities
or powers.
 Research says that all the leaders who displayed a
higher degree of charisma had four inherent qualities-
vision, novelty, affinity for risks, and sensitivity to
needs and preferences of others.

4.  Charismatic leaders are aware and sympathetic to the
needs and wants of their followers. They are highly
compassionate and involve themselves in solving
personal as well as professional problems of their
subordinates.
 Good leaders are also risk takers. They are not afraid
of challenges and are willing to go the distance to get
things done.
 Another very important quality of charismatic leaders
is their preference for charting their own course. They
do not want to tread along the weather beaten path.
They are innovative individuals who are always on the
lookout for doing things differently.
 Michael Dadoun can be called a truly charismatic
leader since his passion and optimism never fails to
strike a chord with his workers. He inspires others with
his enthusiasm and his empathy helps him tap into the
emotions of his workers.

5.  Negotiation can be described as a process in which one
party agrees to exchange a product or service with another
party in exchange for something.
 A leader has to be a good negotiator as they have to
continuously negotiate with the employees as well as the
clients of their organization.
 Leaders of modern organizations are known to drive hard
bargains and it is important that they be effective as well as
efficient negotiators.
 Good leaders, though, need to know where to draw the
line. Too hard bargaining may result in damaged
relationships and drive out employees as well as clients.
 The best strategy is to adopt a negotiation approach in
which both the parties are willing to concede some ground
and outcome is such which is both perceived as favorable
by both the parties.

6.  A vision in an organizational perspective can be defined as
what the organization wants to be in the near future.
 It presents an idealized view of the organization by linking
the present with a better future for the organization. It
offers a sense of purpose to the employees of the
organization.
 True leaders are real visionaries who not only understand
the current business environment, but can predict the
business environment of the coming days as well.
 They usually anticipate what the consumers will need in the
future and come up with products and services that would
instantly catch the fancy of the consumers by fulfilling some
of their unknown needs.

7.  iPod established Steve Jobs as a visionary leader since he
came up with a product that for the first time linked data
storage capabilities with music downloading.
 The device became an instant hit since it offered a
groundbreaking and easy to use technology to download
and organize songs.
 A vision will fail to serve any constructive purpose if the
leader is a person incapable of communicating that vision
and its benefit to the employees.
 A leader after establishing a vision for their organization
and communicating it to the employees should show
confidence in their abilities to achieve that vision.

8.  Conveying confidence is of utmost importance since a
worker low on confidence and esteem will never have the
requisite self-confidence and self-esteem to attempt
achieving the goals and objectives of the organization.
 Michael Dadoun, the CEO of Montreal based payment
processing company UpClick, is a visionary leader who has
established a vision of providing outstanding services to
online merchants.
 He continuously endeavors, through his words and actions,
to convey the vision of the organization to his employees.
Through his own behavior and values, he sets an example
for his followers to imitate.

9.  People who wish to see charisma in action should watch
Martin Lurther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech. The reaction
of the people listening to that speech will tell you all about
charismatic leadership and how leaders tap into the
emotions of their followers.
 A charismatic leader is a visionary with a high Emotional
quotient (EQ) and a strong desire to better the lives of their
employees and the organization’s customers.
 Michael Dadoun is a charismatic leader with good
negotiating skills. He displays the highest level of
commitment and is honest in all his dealings.