A brief Bio of James Meindl

James R. Meindl was the Donald S.
Carmichael Professor of Organization and Human Resources in the
Department of Organization and Human Resources, in the School of
Management, State University of New York at Buffalo, where he has been
on faculty since 1982. In addition to mentoring several graduate
students, he served as the director of the School's
Center for International Leadership, funded by an endowment from HSBC. A
social psychologist by training (BA, University of Rochester, M.A. and
Ph.D. University
of Waterloo; Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at
Champaign-Urbana), Professor Meindl authored and/or edited numerous
articles, chapters and
books
on the behavioral aspects of organizing and managing. He is best known
for his work on the "romance of leadership," a unique perspective on
charisma and other popular forms of leadership.
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