John Adair
Professor John Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic
who is a leadership theorist and author of forty books
(translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and
other leadership.
Adair was born in Luton and educated at St Paul's School before
undertaking his National Service as a Second Lieutenant in the
Scots Guards from 1953 to 1955. Unusually, he served as adjutant
of a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and was briefly in
command of the garrison of Jerusalem in the front line.[1] He
also studied at Hull Nautical College (where he qualified as an
Arctic trawler deckhand in 1955) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959. He later obtained
a doctorate from King's College London in 1966 and a BLitt
degree from Jesus College, Oxford in 1971. He became a Fellow of
the Royal Historical Society in 1966. After working as a Senior
Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst from 1961 to
1967, he later worked for the Industrial Society before becoming
Professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Surrey in
1979, a post he held until 1984. He was a visiting professor at
the University of Exeter from 1990 to 2000. He is currently an
Emeritus Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust where he
regularly speaks on Leadership development programmes. Since
2006, he has been Honorary Professor of Leadership at the China
Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong. In 2009 he was appointed
Chair of Leadership Studies United Nations System Staff College
in Turin.
Bibliography
The Leadership of Muhammad Kogan Page (2010) ISBN 0749460768
Effective Leadership Development. Adair J. CIPD (2005) ISBN
1-84398-133-5
Adairs Leadership Development Activities Tool kit Adair J CIPD
(2006) ISBN 1-84398-131-9
John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Leadership and
Management (100 Greatest Ideas), Capstone Publishing Ltd (2002)
ISBN 1-84112-140-1
How to Grow Leaders: The Seven Key Principles of Effective
Leadership Development, Kogan Page Ltd; (Dec 2006) ISBN
0-74944-839-3
Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-fifty Rule and the Eight
Key Principles of Motivating Others, Kogan Page Ltd (2007) ISBN
0-74944-798-2
Effective Teambuilding: How to Make a Winning Team, Pan; 14 Rev
Ed edition (1987) ISBN 0-33029-809-7
The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership Thorogood;
New Ed edition (2004) ISBN 1-85418-204-8
Effective Leadership Pan; New Ed edition (1988) ISBN
0-33030-230-2
The Inspirational Leader: How to Motivate, Encourage and Achieve
Success, Kogan Page Ltd; New Ed edition (2005) ISBN
0-74944-456-8
Effective Communication Pan (1997) ISBN 0-33034-786-1
Effective Strategic Leadership: An Essential Path to Success
Guided by the World's Great Leaders, Pan; New Ed edition (2003)
ISBN 0-33048-787-6
Effective Motivation Pan (1996) ISBN 0-33034-476-5