Sam Culbert, Ph. D.
Professor
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Samuel A. Culbert is a Professor of Management at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. Dr. Culbert has achieved wide-scale recognition as an expert and theoretician in the management field. He holds a McKinsey award for an article published in the Harvard Business Review and has contributed chapters in many leading management-related books. He is author of the recently published Don't Kill the Bosses! a book that reframes the foundations of how hierarchy and relationships should be thought of at work. His own books include The Organization Trap (Basic Books, 1974) and The Invisible War: Pursuing Self-Interests At Work (written with John J. McDonough; Wiley, 1980), which in 1980 won the AAP award as the best business and management book published that year. Radical Management: Power, Politics, and The Pursuit of Trust (also with John J. McDonough; Free Press, 1985) has just been reprinted, and Mind-Set Management: The Heart of Leadership (Oxford University Press, 1996) continues to garner high acclaim across the general trade market.

In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Culbert has a quick audit/ second opinion consulting practice, specializing in the areas of executive communication and teamwork, trust-building and organization effectiveness, and leadership development and corporate strategizing. He believes consulting provides him the practical experiences and insight that enable him to teach, write, and speak with realism and clarity. His clients include a diverse representation of the private and public sectors: small companies and members of Fortune's 500, international and U.S. governmental agencies, and privately funded not-for-profit organizations. He has considerable experience consulting overseas, and is a licensed clinical psychologist.

Prior to assuming his UCLA post he was Program Director for Organization Studies at The NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Sciences and an adjunct Professor at The George Washington University. Dr. Culbert holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA.

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