Micha Popper  is  Associate  Professor  and the  head  of the Organizational  Psychology  Program  in the  Department  of Psychology  at  the   University   of Haifa , Israel, is the former  commanding  officer  of the School  for  Leadership Development of the Israel Defense Forces .He  is  the  founder  and  director of the Center for Outstanding Leadership in Zikhron  Yaakov  Israel ; A  scholar  of the  US Army Research Institute( ARI ) and  has  been  a  visiting  professor  at  Simon Fraser  University  in Vancouver Canada  His  research and consulting  concern organizational  learning  and  the dynamics  of  leader- followers  relationship  and  developmental  aspects  of leaders . He  has  a Phd  from Tel –Aviv University  (Organizational Behavior), MA  from Tel-Aviv University  and BA  from the Hebrew University  in Jerusalem . Author and co-author  of  five  books on leadership   and numerous articles in journals  including  The leadership Quarterly , Political Psychology , Academy of Management Journal , Military Psychology , Management Learning  and Journal  of Applied  Behavioral Science.