For other people named John Adair, see John Adair (disambiguation).

John Adair (born 18 May 1934) is an author of books on business leadership.

[edit] Life

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. 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 prorgammes. Since 2006, he has been Honorary Professor of Leadership at the China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong.^[1]

[edit] Bibliography

• 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

[edit] External links

• John Adairs website
• Overview of Adairs Action Centered Leadership

[edit] References

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