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 […]
Tag 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 […]
Predicting self-categorization 2: Normative fit
In this post we introduce the second of the three predictors of self-categorization: normative fit. First though, do you remember the context for this? We are talking about the factors […]
Predicting self-categorization 1: Comparative fit
Theoretically this is a post that you all have been waiting for with bated breath. If self-categorization is as fundamental as we say, and is as implicated in as many […]
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 […]
What’s wrong with “Team Australia”?
Team Australia. Sounds good doesn’t it? A noble notion that we are, or should be, all part of the one national team, with the same values, the same goals and […]
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 […]
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