Dr. Bruce Avolio - The Holy Grail of Leadership Development

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Dr. Bruce Avolio has published 12 books and over 150 articles on leadership and related areas. In 2012, Bruce was identified as being in the top 25 management scholars over the last 50 years regarding scholarly citations of his work. In 2017, Bruce was recognized as being among the top 70 most highly cited researchers in the United States in Economics and Business and among the top 3,000 across all sciences around the globe (Thompson Reuters). He was listed this past year at the #18 spot on the all-time most highly cited industrial and organizational psychology researchers over the last 100 years. Dr. Avolio has consulted with hundreds of organizations around the globe in the design and delivery of transformative leadership development systems. Bruce was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, and Gerontological Society. His latest book is Organizational Transformation: How to Achieve it One Person at a Time.

Learn More About Bruce's Work

• Bruce Avolio at Google Scholar
• Book: Full Range Leadership Development
• Book: Leadership Development in Balance: Born/Made

Quotes From This Episode

• "What I would consider, maybe still the holy grail, around leadership development is our perspective-taking capacity."
•  "So if I were to create what I call a "gamulation," for engaging people in their own development, what would that look like? It would be a series of scenarios and challenges."

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: Immunity to Change by Kegan and Lahey
• Book: In Over Our Heads by Robert Kegan
• Book: The Map by Eigel and Kuhnert
• Book: Learning as Transformation by Jack Mezirow
• Book: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
• Resource: Blinkist

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