Dr. Ron Riggio - Leadership: Here's What We Know...

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Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D., is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and former director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. Professor Riggio is the author of more than a dozen books and more than 100 research articles and book chapters in the areas of leadership, assessment centers, organizational psychology, and social psychology. He's served on the editorial boards of The Leadership Quarterly, Leadership, Group Dynamics, and Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.

Quotes from This Episode

• "Leaders don't do leadership. Leadership is co-created by leaders and followers working together."
• "There are plenty of leaders who are effective but could be better leaders. In fact, there are some effective leaders who are very bad leaders."
• "Why do people follow bad leaders? That's a question we've been concerned with..."
• "Leader development focuses on individual development focused on the leader. Leadership development is focusing on developing the collective capacity of leaders and followers, the unit, the team, the department." (For more on this concept, see David Day's article Leadership Development: A Review in Context)

Riggio Related Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• What’s Wrong with Leadership?
• Inclusive Leadership
• Ron Riggio at Psychology Today (Blog)
• Ron's work at Amazon.com

Other Resources Mentioned in this Episode

• The Courageous Follower by Ira Chaleff
• Transactional and Transformational Leadership: A Constructive/Developmental Analysis (Kuhnert & Lewis - Applying the Work of Robert Kegan to Leadership) 
• Inclusify by Stephanie Johnson
• The End of Leadership by Barbara Kellerman
• Bad Leadership by Barbara Kellerman
• The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians--and How We Can Survive The by Jean Lippman Blumen