This article reviews the empirical literature on personality, leadership, and organizational
effectiveness to make 3 major points. First, leadership is a real and vastly consequential …

When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that The Leadership
Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced …

Destructive leadership entails the negative consequences that result from a confluence of
destructive leaders, susceptible followers, and conducive environments. We review how …

This article analyzes the topic of leadership from an evolutionary perspective and proposes
three conclusions that are not part of mainstream theory. First, leading and following are …

Praise for Learning Leadership Page 1 Praise for Learning Leadership “How heartening it is to
see definitive proof that great leaders are made, not born. Learn for yourself how to make …

Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a
direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and style, team performance, and …

Historically, the leadership literature has been little more than a hymn in praise of the
corporate elite. At a professional conference in the early 1980s, the authors proposed that …

Evolutionary leadership theory (ELT) argues that humans possess specialized
psychological mechanisms for solving coordination problems through leadership and …

Abstract The AAMC's Increasing Women's Leadership Project Implementation Committee
examined four years of data on the advancement of women in academic medicine. With …

Much of the work of colleges and universities gets done at the academic department level.
Yet, most institutions of higher learning pay little attention to either the preparation of …