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A brief Bio of James Meindl

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 James Meindlbooks 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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