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principal and co-founder of CareerLeader,
LLP,
Jim Waldroop was until 2001 Co-Director of MBA
Career Development Programs at the Harvard
Business School, where he worked since 1981.
Together with Dr. Timothy Butler (also of the
Harvard Business School) he developed the
Internet-based interactive career assessment
program CareerLeader®
currently used by over 400 MBA programs and
corporations around the world. Waldroop and
Butler also designed the Business Career
Interest Inventory, the Management and
Professional Reward Profile, and the Management
and Professional Abilities Profile, as well as CareerLeader-College™,
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Dr. James Waldroop |
Jim's
work focuses on two areas of interface between
psychology and the world of business: individual
management development (executive effectiveness
development) and career development assessment and
counseling. He has worked with a wide range of
organizations in both the manufacturing and service
sectors, from Fortune 50 corporations to smaller
high-growth firms. His clients include McKinsey &
Company, Fidelity Management Research Company, GTE,
General Electric, Maximus, Citibank, Accenture, Sony
Music Entertainment, KPMG Peat Marwick, Fleet,
Gillette, Pepsi-Cola, Dow Chemical Company,
Boise-Cascade, Hewlett-Packard, Genuity, PA
Consulting, Premier Health Care, AMS, Spaulding &
Slye, Bolt Beranek Newman, Globespan Capital Partners,
Boston Edison, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mercer
Management Consulting, Philip Morris, Boston
Communications Group, Pittiglio Rabin Todd &
McGrath, and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
Publications
(co-authored with Tim Butler) include:
- "The
Hidden Flaws of Top Executives: How to Find Them
Before You Hire Them" (HR Professional,
in press).
-
"Understanding
'People' People"
(Harvard Business Review, June, 2004).
-
"A
Function-Centered Model of Interest Assessment for
Business Careers" (Journal of Career
Assessment, August, 2004).
-
"What
a Star -- What a Jerk"
(with Sarah Cliffe) (Harvard Business Review,
September, 2001).
-
"Redefining
Roles, Customizing Careers" (Pathways: The
Novartis Journal, July, 2001).
-
The
Twelve Bad Habits that Hold Good People Back
(Currency Doubleday, 2000). Foreign language
editions in Arabic, Korean, Mandarin and Taiwanese
Chinese, Portuguese, Thai.
-
"Managing
Away Bad Habits"
(Harvard Business Review,
September-October, 2000).
-
"Guess
What? You're Not Perfect" (Fortune,
October 16, 2000).
-
"The
Art of Work" (Employment Relations Today,
October, 2000).
-
"Job
Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best
People"
(Harvard Business Review,
September-October, 1999).
-
"Eight
Failings That Bedevil the Best"
(Fortune, November 23, 1998).
-
"Finding
the Job You Should Want"
(Fortune, March 2, 1998).
-
Discovering
Your Career in Business
(Addison-Wesley, 1997). Foreign language editions
in Dutch and Mandarin Chinese.
-
"The
Executive as Coach"
(Harvard Business Review,
November-December, 1996).
-
"Managing
Your Career" and "Retaining Valued
Employees" (Harvard ManageMentor,
Harvard Business School Press).
Jim
has lectured at business schools, corporations, and
other organizations throughout the United States,
Canada, and Europe, appears frequently as a keynote
speaker and is frequently interviewed in various
popular media on topics related to attracting and
retaining talent and maximizing performance. He earned
a Ph.D. in psychology in 1972 from the University of
Texas at Austin.
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