John Antonakis

John Antonakis (born March 29, 1969) is a professor of organizational behavior at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne. He was born and raised in South Africa of Greek parents (Paul and Irene Antonakis) and is Swiss naturalized. He received his Ph.D. in applied management and decision sciences (Walden University) and did a post-doc in cognitive psychology (Yale University); he did undergraduate work at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in business and economics, and received his Bachelor (Hospitality Management) and Master (International Business) degrees at Johnson and Wales University.

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• Let s face it charisma matters john antonakis tedxlausanne
• The nature of leadership john antonakis david v day
• References

He specializes in leadership. He is known for his work on charisma, transformational leadership, leader distance, and leader research methods. He has communicated his methods work to a wide audience in a podcast on endogeneity and causality. His article "Predicting Elections: Child's Play" published in the prestigious journal Science engendered a lot of interest because it showed that little children were able to predict results of election outcomes merely by rating the faces of the politician candidates; refer to his podcast for further information. Lately, he has been working with Philippe Jacquart in predicting the U.S. presidential elections; their model predicted that Obama would win (refer to Antonakis's YouTube video on the Obama-Romney election race). A summary of his latest work on charisma is available in a recent talk he gave at TEDx.

Antonakis is an ardent critic of the concept of emotional intelligence; his research suggests that emotional intelligence measures are not developed enough to be used for clinical purposes or in work-related or educational settings, and that emotional intelligence is not needed for leadership.