My primary research areas are leadership and organizational teams, with an emphasis on improving the ability of team members to coordinate their actions and expertise and to adapt to changing environments. My work has covered a number of critical issues in managing teams, such as understanding the emergence of team cognitive structures and behaviors, reducing the effects of stress on leadership and team interactions, the influence of team structure and rewards on collective processes and outcomes such as conflict, creativity, motivation and unethical behavior, and the role of leadership in team learning and performance coordination.
In the News:
Peak Performance: Lessons in Leadership from Mountain Guides
Psychology can explain why wildly successful teams get tempted to the dark side
NASA: Critical team composition issues for long-distance and long-duration space exploration
The five “must have” leadership traits
Empowered teams get a slow start, but soon zoom ahead
Real delegation requires something unexpected
NASA: Team training for long-duration missions in isolated and confined environments
