About Robert Bruce Shaw
Robert Bruce Shaw, author of Leadership Blindspots: How
Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That
Matter, assists business leaders in building
organizations and teams capable of superior performance. His
specialty is working closely with senior executives, as individuals
and as groups, on the management of organizational and leadership
change. Robert often works with leaders in new positions to help
them transition into their roles and with longer-tenured leaders
seeking to enhance their effectiveness.
Robert's clients span a variety of industries including
pharmaceuticals, financial services, telecommunications, industrial
products, defense, power utilities and consumer goods. Robert holds
a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University. He has
authored or co-authored books and articles on organizational and
leadership performance including Trust in the Balance: Building
Successful Organizations on Results, Integrity and Concern;
Discontinuous Change: Leading Organizational Transformation
(with David Nadler and Elise Walton) and Organizational
Architecture: Designs for Changing Organizations (with David
Nadler and Marc Gerstein). Recent articles include Developing
Peripheral Vision, Organizational Bystanders and Changing Culture.
Robert is a frequent speaker on leadership and team effectiveness.
For more information, view Robert Shaw's Web site.