Papers presented at a conference held at San Antonio, TX, October, 1988, sponsored by the Center for Creative Leadership and the Psychological Corporation. 

Contents:
Preparing for leadership -- Psychology and the study of leadership -- Using measurement to become objective -- The many ways to study leadership -- Developing measures to describe leadership and to select leaders -- Personality measures and leadership -- Validation : the ultimate test -- Translating knowledge into action. A review of prior scholarly research in leadership. Relational features of organizational leadership and followership. Psychological measurements in long-term prediction and assessment studies. Testing for management potential -- Predictions of managerial success over long periods of time : lessons from the Management Progress Study -- Contextual issues in predicting high-level leadership performance : contextual richness as a criterion consideration in personality research with executives.
Measures of leadership as inspiration and influence. Long-term forecasting of transformational leadership and its effects among naval officers -- Transformational leaders : team performance, leadership ratings, and firsthand impressions -- Task cycle theory : the process of influence -- Leadership practices : an alternative to the psychological perspective. Measures of leader and manager behavior. Preliminary report on validation of the Managerial Practices Survey -- Psychological orientations and leadership : thinking styles that differentiate between effective and ineffective managers -- The Campbell Work Orientations Surveys : their use to capture the characteristics of leaders.
Leadership at the top of an organization. Military executive leadership -- Understanding and assessing organizational leadership -- Leadership behavior in ambiguous environments. Personality and leadership. The dark side of charisma -- Testing for leadership with the California Psychological Inventory -- The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and leadership -- Stars, adversaries, producers, and phantoms at work : a new leadership typology -- Some personality characteristics of senior military officers -- Leadership in Latin American organizations : a glimpse of styles through personality measures.
Intellectual qualities of leaders. Hypotheses about the relationship between leadership and intelligence -- Predicting performance during the apprenticeship -- Intellectual styles -- Street smarts. Development of leadership. Perceptual accuracy of self and others and leadership status as functions of cognitive complexity -- A study of the developmental experiences of managers -- BENCHMARKS : an instrument for diagnosing managerial strengths and weaknesses -- Assessing opportunities for leadership development -- Leadership and youth. Proceedings of the San Antonio Conference on Psychological Measures and Leadership. 

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.