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Kaiser, R. B., & Hogan, J. (2011). Personality, leader behavior, and overdoing it. Manuscript under review.

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Kaiser, R. B., & Overfield, D. V. (in press). Strengths, strengths overused, and lopsided leadership. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.

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Kaiser, R. B. (Ed.) (2011). The leadership pipeline: Fad, fashion, or empirical fact? [Special Issue]. The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 14, 71-75.

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Kaiser, R.B., Craig, S.B., Overfield, D.V., & Yarborough, P. (2011). Differences in managerial jobs at the bottom, middle, and top: A review of empirical research. The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 14, 76-91.

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Kaiser, R. B., & Craig, S. B. (2011). Do the behaviors related to managerial effectiveness really change with organizational level? An empirical test. The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 14, 92-119. 

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Kaiser, R.B. (2011, May). Going Sour in the Suite: The Root Causes of Executive Failure. Invited address delivered to the Association of Business Psychologists, University of Westminster, London.

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Kaiser, R.B., & Overfield, D.V. (2011, May). Filling Your Leadership Pipeline, One Manager at a Time. Invited webinar delivered for Human Resource Executive magazine.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2011, April). What executive selection committees want, for better or worse. Presented in R. Hogan (Chair), Who Can Get and Keep a Job? Understanding Employability. Symposium presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2011, April). Follow Through, the Key to ROI in Executive Coaching. Symposium presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

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Craig, S.B., & Kaiser, R.B. (2011). Destructive leadership. Chapter to appear in M. G. Rumsey (Ed.) The Oxford handbook of leadership. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Kaiser, R. B., & Overfield, D. V. (2010). Assessing flexible leadership as a mastery of opposites. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 62(2), 105–118.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2011, February). The Leadership Pipeline: Fad, Fashion, or Empirical Fact? Session presented at the APA Division 13 (Society for Consulting Psychology) midwinter conference, Las Vegas, NV.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2011, February). A Long Hard Look in the Mirror: Assessing our Role in the Leadership Crisis. Session presented at the APA Division 13 (Society for Consulting Psychology) midwinter conference, Las Vegas, NV.

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Pavlica, K., Jarošová, E., & Kaiser, R. B.  (2010). Versatilní Vedení: Dynamická rovnováha manazerských dovedností. (Versatile Leadership: A dynamic balance of managerial skills). Prague, Czech Republic: Management Press.

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Kaiser, R. B. (Ed.) (2010). Developing flexible and adaptive leaders for an age of uncertainty [Special Issue]. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 62(2).

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Kaiser, R. B. & Hogan. R. (2010). How to (and how not to) assess the integrity of managers. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 62, 216-234.

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Kaiser, R. B., & Overfield, D. V. (2010). The leadership value chain. The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 13, 164-183.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2010, September). The Hidden Danger in Playing to Strength. Keynote address delivered at the Asociacion Mexicana en Direccion de Recursos Humanos (AMEDIRH), 45th International Congress of Human Resources, Mexico City, Mexico.

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Kaiser, R. B. (2010, May-June). Positivamente equivocado: Los peligros ocultos en el metodo de desarrollo de lideres basado en fortalezas. (Positively wrong: The hidden dangers in strengths-based development for leaders). ERIAC Capital Humano, 49(3), 26-31.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2010, April). The Problem with the Strengths Fad. Symposium presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2010, April). Evolution and the Problem with Modern Leadership. Symposium presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2010, March). Play to your strengths - but don’t get seduced! Keynote address delivered at the ERIAC Capital Humano HR World Forum, Monterrey, Mexico.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2010, February). Next Generation 360: Aligning What We Know and How We Assess. Session presented at the Metropolitan New York Association of Applied Psychology, New York City.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2010, February). Executive Assessment and the Bottom Line: Thinking Clearly about Leadership Effectiveness. Workshop delivered at the Society for Psychologists in Management annual conference, Tampa, FL.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2010, February). Assessing and Developing Adaptable Leaders for an Age of Uncertainty. Session presented at the APA Division 13 (Society for Consulting Psychology) midwinter conference, Scottsdale, AZ.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2010, January). Leadership lessons from the past. In N. Nicholson (chair), Evolutionary Approaches to Leadership, Management, and Organizational Performance, Darwin Seminar. Guest Lecture Series presented at the London Business School, London, UK.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2010, January). Next-Generation 360: Beyond Competencies and the Five-point Scale. Workshop delivered to the British Psychometric Society’s Psychometrics Forum, London, UK.

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Creelman, D., & Kaiser, R. B. (2009). The value of hiring for team fit. Leadership in Action, 29(4), 23-24.

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Kaplan, R.E., & Kaiser, R.B. (2010). Towards a positive psychology for leaders. In A. P. Linley, S. Harrington, & N. Page (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work (pp. 107-117). New York: Oxford University Press.

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Hogan, J., Hogan, R., & Kaiser, R. B. (2010). Management derailment. In S. Zedeck (Ed.) American Psychological Association Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 3 (pp. 555-575). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2009). The Perils of Accentuating the Positive. Tulsa, OK: Hogan Press.

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Kaiser, R. B. (2009). Too good to be true: Are strengths really all leaders need? Chief Learning Officer, 8(3), 58.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2009, February). Improving Follow-through, the Achilles’ Heel of Executive Coaching. Session presented at the APA Division 13 (Society for Consulting Psychology) midwinter conference, San Diego, CA.

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Kaplan, R.E., & Kaiser, R.B. (2009). Stop overdoing your strengths. Harvard Business Review, 87(2), 100-103.

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Van Vugt, M., Johnson, D.D.P., Kaiser, R.B., & O’Gorman, R. (2008).  Evolution and the social psychology of leadership: The mismatch hypothesis. In D. R. Forsyth, G. R. Goethals, C. L. Hoyt, M. A. Genovese, & Cox, L. H. (Eds.), Leadership at the Crossroads (pp 267-282). Westport, CT: Greenwood.

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Van Vugt, M., Hogan, R., & Kaiser, R.B. (2008). Leadership, followership, and evolution: Some lessons from the past. American Psychologist, 63, 182-196.

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Kaiser, R.B. & White, R.P. (2008). Strength test: Debunking an unbalanced approach to development. Leadership in Action, 28(5), 8-12.

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Hogan, R. & Kaiser, R.B. (2008). Quality control: Why leaders need to understand personality. Leadership in Action, 28(5), 3-7.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2008, April). The Importance, Assessment, and Development of Flexible Leadership. Panel discussion presented at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in San Francisco, CA.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2008, April). Unconventional Thinking About Leadership. Panel discussion presented at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in San Francisco, CA.

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Kaiser, R.B., Hogan, R., & Craig, S.B. (2008). Leadership and the fate of Organizations. American Psychologist, 63, 96-110.

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Hogan, R., & Kaiser, R.B. (2008). Learning a lesson in executive selection. Leadership in Action, 27(6), 22-24.

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Lyons, D. & McArthur, C. (2007). Gender’s Unspoken Role in Leadership Evaluations. Human Resource Planning, 30(3), 24-32.

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Kaiser, R.B., Lindberg, J.T., & Craig, S.B. (2007). Assessing the flexibility of managers: A comparison of methods. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 15, 40-55.

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Kaiser, R.B., & Hogan, R. (2007). The dark side of discretion: Leader personality and organizational decline. In R. Hooijberg, J. Hunt, J. Antonakis, K. Boal, &  N. Lane (Eds.) Being there even when you are not: Leading through strategy, systems and structures. (Vol. 4, pp. 177-197). London: Elsevier Science.

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Padilla, A., Hogan, R., & Kaiser, R.B. (2007). The toxic triangle: Destructive leaders, vulnerable followers, and conducive environments. Leadership Quarterly, 18, 176-194.

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Kaplan, B., & Kaiser, R. (2007). Adjusting your leadership volume. Leader to Leader, 43, 13-18.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2007, April). The Perils of Accentuating the Positives. Symposium presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.

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Kaplan, R. E., & Kaiser, R. B. (2007, February). Potent coaching: Fresh leverage for developing versatile leaders. Pre-conference workshop at the APA Division 13 (Consulting Psychology) midwinter conference, Miami, FL.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2007, February). Take hold of your strengths - lest they take hold of you! Invited adult enrichment class sponsored by the Durham Academy, Durham, NC.