About the Authors

Hamilton Beazley is chairman of the Strategic Leadership Group and former associate professor of organizational sciences at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He received his BA degree in psychology from Yale University, his MBA degree in accounting from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, and his PhD degree in organizational behavior from The George Washington University.

Prior to his academic career, he served in various financial and strategic planning positions in the American oil industry, as a founding member of the board of directors of DyChem International (U.K.), Ltd., as founding chairman of the Oxy Houston Credit Union, and as former president of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc., New York. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Educational Advancement Foundation, a member of the advisory board of the Discovery Learning Project at the University of Texas at Austin, and a former member of the board of trustees of the Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation.

He is coauthor (with the Episcopal Bishop of Texas) of Reclaiming the Great Commission: A Practical Model for Transforming Denominations and Congregations, a case study of organizational transformation under a visionary leader (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000); author of the forthcoming Quantum Leading: Servant-Leadership in the Century of Hyper-Change, a study of servant-leadership and how it is practiced in leading American companies (John ...

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