John Adair (author) at the University of Exeter from 1990 to 2000. He is currently an Emeritus Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust where he regularly speaks on Leadership development programmes. Since 2006, he has been Honorary Professor of Leadership at the China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong. In 2009 he was appointed Chair of Leadership Studies United Nations System Staff College in Turin. He is President of Adair International. John Adair (author) Professor John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business,
Kurt Schmidt and for that he received the Wound Badge in Silver. He also received the Hanseatic Cross from the city of Hamburg. In the last months of the war he was promoted to "Hauptmann" (captain). Kurt Schmidt was a member of the staff of the 5th Infantry Division in 1930, in 1931 he was promoted to Major; in 1937 he was promoted to Oberst. In 1937 the newly promoted Oberst Kurt Schmidt moved with his family to the German town of Hamelin. When he moved to Hamelin he was commander of "Infanterie-Regiment 74". He took part in the invasion of Poland