Will the real social identity please stand up?
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’. […]
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’. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]