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,
John Hersey came with "The Child Buyer" (1960), a speculative-fiction novel. Hersey also wrote "The Algiers Motel Incident", about a racially motivated shooting by police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, during 1968. Hersey's first novel "A Bell for Adano", about the Allied occupation of a Sicilian town during World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945, and was adapted into the 1945 movie "A Bell for Adano" directed by Henry King, featuring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. His 1956 short novel, "A Single Pebble" is the tale of a young American engineer traveling up the