*This interview was originally published in Business Class Magazin – this is the translation of the Hungarian text. The original version can be found here. We met Dr. Robert Hogan at the Four Seasons Budapest. He is an American psychologist and the founder of Hogan Assessments who has institutionalized the use of personality assessments for… Read more »
Tag: leadership
What’s Worse Than a Tyrannical Leader? One Who Isn’t There
*This article was written by Danielle King and published in Human Resource Executive on June 1, 2018. How to Recognize Absentee Leaders. A high-performing salesperson knocks his sales goals out of the park every month and consistently brings in new clients while maintaining great internal and external relationships. When a new sales-leadership position opens, his… Read more »
New Study Lists Robert Hogan As One of the Greatest Living Psychologists
*This press release originally appeared on Business Wire. In a new study published in Psychology, Dr. Robert Hogan, Chairman & President of Hogan Assessments, was nominated by his peers as a top psychologist in multiple categories. The study, conducted by Adrian Furnham, Professor of Psychology at University College London and the Norwegian Business School, asked… Read more »
THUOPER Developing Colombia’s Next Generation of Leaders
THUOPER, Hogan’s Colombian distributor, embodies one of Hogan’s core values: developing future leaders. Ineffective leadership has plagued the global workforce for centuries, mostly because the characteristics that help people emerge as leaders are quite different from those that make an effective leader. Of course, when leadership potential has been measured incorrectly for so long, there… Read more »
Find, Grow, and Retain Top Talent: A 5-Step Plan
*This article was authored by Robert Hogan and Joan Jacobsen, and was originally published in The New Thinking Issue of Talent Quarterly. Visit their website to purchase the full issue as well as all previous issues. Assembling a roster of all-stars isn’t easy—and keeping your squad together is even harder. Steal these five strategies and your team… Read more »
Self-Deception and Leadership
*This post was authored by Robert Hogan & Ryne Sherman. There is a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated topics: self-deception and leadership. The two themes often come together in the lives of prominent politicians, for example, in the career of Barack Obama. Let us explain. We are both fascinated by the idea that people… Read more »
Moral Character Matters, and It Matters Most of All at the Top of Organizations
*This is a guest post authored by Dr. Nicholas Emler, Professor of Psychology at University of Surrey. Social organizations generate immense power and great benefits. Today, we rely on social organizations to support every facet of our lives—from food production and distribution to water supply and waste disposal to the provision of health care and… Read more »
We Don’t Build Bridges from Instinct: An Interview with Dr. Robert Hogan
*This Q&A was originally published by HRPWR.com. Dr. Robert Hogan is an international authority in the fields of personality assessment, the assessment of management skills and organisational efficiency. He is the author of more than 300 articles, book chapters and books in total; the founder of Hogan Assessments and eponym of the Hogan test. Dr…. Read more »
Humility, Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness
*This article was originally published by Training Industry on May 1, 2018. One of the best studies ever conducted on organizational effectiveness was done by Jim Collins and described in his book “Good to Great.” Collins identified 11 firms from the Fortune 1000 that had 15 years of below-average performance in their industry followed by… Read more »
Change Management — How Are We Helping Leaders Change?
*This is a guest post authored by Rob Field, Learning and Development Director at Advanced People Strategies. We all heard it and probably all rolled our eyes to it…’The only constant is change’. With organisations needing to constantly adapt and evolve due to competitive forces, global challenges or political decisions how are leaders meant to… Read more »