Background
He was born and raised in South Africa of Greek parents (Paul and Irene Antonakis) and is Swiss naturalized.
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John Antonakis
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He received his Doctor of Philosophy 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.
Career
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. 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.
