Stories by Sean Hannah, Pierre Balthazard, Robert W. Thatcher and David A. Waldman

Sean Hannah is Professor of Management and the Wilson Chair of Business Ethics at Wake Forest University School of Business; and is a retired U.S. Army Colonel with over 26 years practical leadership experience in both peace and combat. He studies exemplary forms of leadership as well as numerous aspects of leader and character development. He has published more than 50 scholarly articles.
Pierre Balthazard is Professor of Management and Dean of the School of Business at St. Bonaventure University. He leads the neuroscience of leadership project, an interdisciplinary field aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports leaders in thought, perception, decision-making, affect, action, and social processes.
Robert W. Thatcher is the director of Neuroimaging at the Applied Neuroscience Research Institute and President of Applied Neuroscience, Inc. He served on the National Institutes of Health Scientific Advisory Committee for the NIH Human Brain Map Project and was a board member of the American Board of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology and the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society. He is the author of seven books and over 200 publications. His most recent book is the "Handbook of Quantitative Electroencephalography and EEG Biofeedback".
David A. Waldman is a Professor of Management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research interests focus on responsible leadership and the neuroscience of leadership, and his accomplishments include over 100 scholarly articles. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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September 18, 2013

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