Publications

March 2013
Case

Coach Hurley at St. Anthony High School

By: Scott A. Snook and Bradley Lawrence

Coach Bob Hurley of St. Anthony High School is one of the winningest coaches in the history of high school basketball. At age 65, he has won more than 1,000 games and 25 New Jersey State Championships. His players come from the toughest streets in the country and yet... View Details

Keywords: Authentic Leadership Development; Authenticity; Sports; Coaching; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leadership Development; Groups and Teams; Sports Industry; Education Industry; New Jersey

Educators

3 Nov 2007
Lecture

The Spirituality of Authentic Leaders

By: William W. George

Keywords: Leadership; Religion

Article

Authentic Leaders 'Get' Governance

By: William W. George

Keywords: Leadership; Governance

13 Apr 2007
Lecture

The Spirituality of Authentic Leaders

By: William W. George

Keywords: Leadership; Religion

June 2021
Case

Bozoma Saint John: Leading with Authenticity and Urgency

By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei

In this multimedia case, Bozoma Saint John recounts numerous defining moments from her childhood and work experiences. We learn what empowered and inspired her to be her authentic self, to be vulnerable and open to new experiences, to find commonality with others, to... View Details

Keywords: Biases; Personal Development and Career; Identity; Interests; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Opportunities; Leadership Style; Diversity

Educators

Research Summary

Leadership Development

Professor George has completed his research study on leadership development, based on in-person, in-depth interviews with 125 business and non-profit leaders, over half of whom are chief executive officers. They range in age from 23 to 93, with thirty per cent... View Details

December 15, 2003
Article

Authentic Leaders Needed to Restore Trust

By: William W. George

Keywords: Leadership; Trust

October 2003
Article

Authentic Leaders: Devote Yourself to a Cause

By: William W. George

Keywords: Leadership

2003
Book

Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value

By: William W. George

Keywords: Leadership; Value

August 8, 2010
Article

Win Wallin: An Authentic Leader in our Midst

By: Bill George

Keywords: Leadership

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

it as a question, Dianne Jacobs challenged us to think about whether "the experience and consequences of practicing leadership (and the use of masks) will be different for women"? (She believes they are.) Dr. Kervokian asked... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Works on the subject of leadership weigh down bookstore shelves the world over. Tomes tell you how to be a 30-second manager, how to inspire your employees like Churchill, and the three keys to "strength-based leadership."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

Fellow at Harvard Business School, and former Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic. [Image: skynesher ] Related Reading Authentic Leadership Rediscovered A Strategy For Steady View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

August 2019
Case

Simón Cohen at Henco: Sustaining 'High Performance, Happy People'

By: Francesca Gino, Jeff Steiner, Arianna Camacho and Paul Green

Simón Cohen—Founder of Henco Logistics—transformed a small Mexican logistics company into a major player within the industry. Cohen credits the firm’s focus on employee happiness as the key ingredient to its success, an approach he developed following a personal... View Details

Keywords: Work/life Balance; Growth Strategy; Corporate Culture; Motivation; Values; Authentic Leadership Development; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Values and Beliefs; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry

Educators

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

teams can share success stories from the field via public video blogs, which journalists and customers may consider more authentic and more useful than slick marketing material. Furthermore, besides meeting with sales teams, customers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about... View Details

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health

2011
Book

True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development

By: Bill George and Doug Baker

All too often, we find ourselves forced to confront life's challenges on our own. What we need is an intimate group with whom we can examine our beliefs and share our lives. For the past thirty-five years, Bill George and Doug Baker have found the answer in True North... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Opportunities; Personal Characteristics