Book review: The End of Leadership, Barbara Kellerman
Very disappointing; would not recommend. And I was so optimistic about this one. I first came across The End of Leadership in another paper I was reading. There Barbara Kellerman’s […]
Category Archives: Leadership
The ethics of identity entrepreneurship
The social identity understanding of influence, and consequently leadership, is a practical one. In fact, in the last 10 years a practical perspective on the social identity approach to leadership […]
Doing leadership: Just tilt your head and strike a power pose… apparently.
A friend of mine came across a recent article on leadership and thought it might be of interest to me. Its title is ‘Connect, Then Lead’ and it was published […]
For the skeptics: If this ‘new psychology of leadership’ is so great, why are we only hearing about it now?
Heard promises like ours before? Talk of ‘solving’ the great leadership questions. Assurances of clarity in the face of an incoherent field. Sure, you say. We’ve heard this before. Fair […]
Defining leadership: the three sins
A few weeks ago I sat in on a lecture given to members of the Australian public service. The topic was leadership, and the title went something like this: ‘Are […]
Doing leadership: Introducing the three ‘R’s
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 […]
Understanding power: authority and coercion
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 […]
What foreign coaches can teach us about leadership and team performance
December in Australia is a time when everyone wastes far too much time watching cricket. Mostly this is an experience of national pride, where we rely on our cricketers to humble the English, […]
Hitler, charisma and the social identity approach
As a function of my consulting and teaching I am often educating people about the social identity approach to leadership, described elsewhere as “the new psychology of leadership”.[1] As briefly […]
Why exactly should we be “invisible leaders”?
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 […]
