Gary Yukl is professor of management at the State University of New York at Albany. His research is primarily in the areas of leadership, power and influence, management development, and motivation. He is the author of a widely used textbook on leadership and has designed management development programs for many corporations and public sector organizations. Honors include two best paper awards at professional conferences, two best article awards, and the president's award for excellence in research from SUNY-Albany in 1992. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Leadership Quarterly. He holds a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.