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Will the real social identity please stand up?

August 1, 2014by Andrew Frain 3 Comments

Where does the social identity approach come from? Awkwardly, before we can answer that question we need to have a conversation about what we mean by ‘the social identity approach’. […]

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Sources of social identity

Self-categorization: I and us

July 17, 2014by Andrew Frain 2 Comments

We have had a couple of recent posts looking at the social identity approach in action, and our last post introduced a pathway for using social identity ideas. I therefore […]

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Tenets of social identity

Doing leadership: Introducing the three ‘R’s

July 3, 2014by Andrew Frain Leave a comment

We have started making claims that the social identity approach provides answers to common leadership questions and that these insights can be leveraged to strengthen leadership credentials. We will continue […]

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Leadership

Understanding power: authority and coercion

June 19, 2014by Andrew Frain Leave a comment

In a couple of our previous posts we have contrasted leadership with ‘authority’ and ‘coercion’. But what are these exactly? What do we mean when we say that a police […]

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Leadership, Power

Social identity in policing: from football hooligans to football fans

May 21, 2014by Andrew Frain Leave a comment

Early this year Australia was visited by Cliffard Stott, a UK based social identity theorist. I had the privilege of listening to him present on some of his latest work […]

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Collective action

Categorization: Knives, forks, spoons, and us

May 7, 2014by Andrew Frain 3 Comments

This post is our first that is wholly dedicated to a tenet of the social identity approach. That tenet is ‘cognitive categorization’. Why cognitive categorization? We need to have some […]

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Tenets of social identity

Beware the presumptions of mergers and acquisitions: cultural fit isn’t similarity

April 24, 2014by Andrew Frain 2 Comments

Company mergers and, more commonly, acquisitions, are renowned for failure. Estimates of failure rates usually start at 50% and can be as high as 90%. That’s a lot of failure. […]

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Mergers and acquisitions

Contesting “the basics”: the necessity of social identity

April 9, 2014by Andrew Frain 2 Comments

This post is inspired by a conversation I recently had with a friend of mine. He is a successful professional and is now in a management position in the Australian […]

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Individualism, Motivation

Why exactly should we be “invisible leaders”?

March 12, 2014by Andrew Frain 1 Comment

Our first post was always going to be about leadership. The topic of leadership pricks up the ears of the business world like nothing else. If we want to build […]

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Leadership

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