Derek Lusk Ph.D.

About

Derek Lusk, Ph.D., works with Fortune 500 companies, including those in oil and gas, insurance, health care, biotech, and security, among others. He uses data and psychology to identify leaders and predict leadership effectiveness. He also writes for the Harvard Business Review and teaches organizational psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He is currently working on a book about the dark side of leadership with Oxford University Press.

Books by Derek Lusk Ph.D.

Recent Posts

The Psychology of Visionary Leadership

The history of business is the history of control, power, and bad leadership. Learn how visionaries take their organization on a meaningful adventure.

Reclaim Your Existence in an Anti-Human World—I, Exist

Personal Perspective: The death of meaning is the fundamental problem of our time in a technology-driven, anti-human world.

Toward an Authentic Existence

There's tension between your real self and who others expect you to be. What does it really mean to live authentically?

The Psychology of the Cosmos

The same forces that govern the universe are inside the mind. Discover how these forces shape human life and the organizations where we work.

The Four CEO Beliefs: From Mind to Reality

Beliefs matter. They are the foundation of psychological life. Discover how the dynamic tension between four CEO beliefs underlies success or failure in organizational life.

C-Suite Executives: The Guardians of Human Experience

Gone are the days of being ruled by top-down commands. Discover how humanism is changing C-suite leadership and elevating the human experience.

The CEO Revolution: De-Managing Organizations in Chaos

Explore a transformative leadership era in which de-management overthrows centralized control, adaptability supersedes dogma, and chaos galvanizes change.

CEOs and the Fate of Organizations

How do you create a rapid revolution that changes the trajectory of an organization overnight?

3 Tips for Breaking Bias in Succession Planning

Our brain selects socially aggressive and charismatic leaders, regardless of their leadership talent. How can organizations remove bias from succession planning?

Psychological Values of the Future

The new nature of human nature is breaking down authoritarian hierarchies to deal with the Information Age. What is the psychology of the future?