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Books & Book Chapters

Kaplan, R.E., & Kaiser, R.B. (in press). Towards a positive psychology for leaders. Chapter to appear in A. P. Linley, S. Harrington, & N. Page (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Hogan, J., Hogan, R., & Kaiser, R. B. (in press). Management derailment: Personality assessment and mitigation. Chapter to appear in S. Zedeck (Ed.) American Psychological Association Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. 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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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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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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Kaplan, R.E., & Kaiser, R.B. (2006). Lopsidedness in leaders: Strategies for assessing it and correcting it. In R.J. Burke and C.L. Cooper (Eds.) Inspiring Leaders (pp. 293-304). London: Routledge.

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Kaiser, R.B., & Craig, S.B. (2006). Bad items, bad data: Item characteristics and rating discrepancies in multi-source assessments. In S. Reddy (Ed.), Perspectives on Multirater Performance Assessment. (Ch. 5, pp. 76-91). Nagarjuna Hills, Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press.

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Kaplan, R.E., & Kaiser, R.B. (2006). The Versatile Leader: Make the Most of Your Strengths - Without Overdoing It. San Francisco: Pfeiffer.

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Kaiser, R.B., & Kaplan, R.E. (2005). On the folly of linear rating scales for a non-linear world. In S. Reddy (Ed.), Performance Appraisals: A Critical View (Ch. 12, pp. 170-197). Nagarjuna Hills, Hyderabad, India: ICFAI University Press.

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Kaiser, R.B. (2005). Filling the Leadership Pipeline. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.

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Kaplan, R.E. & Kaiser, R.B. (2004). The turbulence within: How sensitivities throw off performance in executives. In R.J. Burke and C.L. Cooper (Eds.) Leading in Turbulent Times, (Ch. 2, pp. 31-53). Oxford: Blackwell.

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Kaiser, R.B. & DeVries, D.L. (2000). Leadership training. In W.E. Craighead and C.B. Nemeroff (Eds.) The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley & Sons.

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Kaiser, R.B. & DeVries, D.L. (2000). Leadership styles. In W.E. Craighead and C.B. Nemeroff (Eds.) The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley & Sons.

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Kaplan, R.E. (1999). Internalizing strengths: An overlooked way of overcoming weaknesses in managers. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.

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Kaplan, R. E. (1998). Getting at character: The simplicity on the other side of complexity. In R. Jeanneret and R. Silzer (Eds.), Individual assessment: The art and science of personal psychological evaluation in an organizational setting. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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DeVries, D.L. (1993). Executive selection: A look at what we know and what we need to know. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.

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Kaplan, R.E. (1996). Forceful leadership and enabling leadership: You can do both. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.

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Sessa, V.I., Kaiser, R.B., Taylor, J.K., & Campbell, R.J. (1998). Executive selection: A research report on what works and what doesn’t. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.

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Bunker, K. & Webb, A. D. (1992). Learning how to learn from experience: Impact of stress and coping. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.

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Kaplan, R.E. (1991). Beyond ambition: How driven managers can lead better and live better. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. (With Drath, W.H. & Kofodimos, J.R.)

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Kaplan, R.E. & McCall, M.W. (1990). Whatever it takes: The realities of managerial decision making. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

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Kaplan, R.E. (1988). The warp and woof of the general manager’s job. In F.D. Schoorman & B. Schneider (Eds.), Facilitating work effectiveness (pp. 183-211). Lexington, MA, US: Lexington Books/D.C. Heath and Company. 

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Kaplan, R.E., Kofodimos, J.R., & Drath, W.H. (1987). Development at the Top: A Review and a Prospect. In R.W. Woodman & W.A. Pasmore (Eds.) Research in organizational change and development, Vol. I, (pp. 229-273). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.  Chapter in out of print book. No longer available.



Drath, W.H., Kaplan, R.E., Kofodimos, J.R. (1986). Anatomy of an executive: A close look at one executive’s managerial character and development. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.  Out of print essay. No longer available.



Kaplan, R.E. (1984). High hurdles:  The challenges of executive self-development. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.

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