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Are Followers Sheep?
For the last year I have been researching how undergraduate students view leadership. But one of the most interesting themes that have emerged from the data is about followers. Students can articulately define the role of leaders, the importance of leaders, describe their beliefs about leaders, the characteristics of leaders, whether they see themselves as a leader, and they can identify leaders…
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Priorities
My secrets to productivity. No day time, no productivity system. Just three attainable goals per day.
Recently, a former coworker, Graham Robertson, posted a wonderful strategy visualization on LinkedIn that suggested that fewer strategies are better than more strategies. The math of this analysis is undeniable: three strategies with three tactics equals nine projects; while seven strategies and seven tactics each equals 49 projects. This simple illustration clearly demonstrates that careful…
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A New Year's Mantra
A New Year's Mantra @ColleenSharen
As I sit on the train wending my way home from a lovely couple of days with friends to celebrate the new year, I’ve been thinking a lot about messages. I just spent 30 minutes or so reading banal happy new year wishes on LinkedIn and more interesting ones of facebook. Twitter just depressed me with more talk of U.S. politics and the loss of democracy, the middle class, and sanity. The newspapers…
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Is Management Women's Work?
Is Management Women's Work? and more about the false dichotomy between #leadership and #management
Many scholarly and popular writers differentiate between management and leadership—the leader envisions and directs change while the manager administers the organization (Kotter, 2007). Doesn’t this cartoon make leadership sound appealing and management sound terrible?
While this distinction might be useful in scholarly studies and to promote leadership consulting, in my opinion the…
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How are women represented in business cases? 5 key findings Here is a short video that illustrate our five key findings about how women are represented in business cases:
Invisible or Clichéd: How Are Women Represented in Business Cases?
Invisible or Clichéd: How Are Women Represented in Business Cases?
https://www.canva.com/design/DADGou4SjM8/view
I’m excited to share with you the results of a recent study Dr. Rosemary McGowan (Wilfrid Laurier University) and I published in the Journal of Management Education. We found that women decision makers were underrepresented in business cases, and when they were featured, their attributes and behaviours were represented in a stereotypical manner.
Wom…
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Empathy and Design
Empathyis the ability to understand and share the perspective, beliefs and feelings of another person. Empathy is the foundation of good marketing, whereby a marketer has such deep understanding of the customer that they can build products and services that the customer wants and is willing to pay for. Empathy is also crucial to entrepreneurs, leaders of all stripes, managers of people,…
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You Keep Using That Word
You Keep Using That Word
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”.
Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride (1987).
(IMDb. The Princess Bride. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes. Retrieved: 29 May 2016).
We all do it. Use words incorrectly. I never thought I would become one of those people, you know, the ones who rant and rave about incorrect English? I have become one of those…
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What I've Been Reading: Effective Thinking
What I’ve Been Reading: Effective Thinking
Only 147 pages! Edward Burger and Michael Starbird wrote the book The Five Elements of Effective Thinking in only 147 pages. It’s an accessible read, which I love. I particularly like the fact that the book applies to both the classroom and the corporation. And it has made me question how much I really understand about my discipline. Which is good.
“When faced with a difficult challenge,…
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Opinion vs. Facts
Enough already. Today I overheard a women pronouncing that if you want an education, go to university, if you want a job, go to college. I had to bite my tongue. I wanted to ask her, “What make you say that?” I suspect that if she answered, she would say something like, that’s my opinion, or maybe, everyone knows that.
The point is that she couldn’t be more wrong, at least in Ontario. Recent…
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The List: What I'm reading now
The List: What I’m reading now
Scenario Planning has been a hot method of creating organizational strategy for over 20 years. Recently I was asked to guide a team in a strategic planning process, and the team wanted to use scenario planning. Oops. Not an approach with which I am familiar. So, nerdy me, I started reading Adam Kahane’s book, Working Together to Change the Future: Transformative Scenario Planning. (Thanks to…
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6 Components of #Strategic Leadership
6 Components of #Strategic Leadership
What is strategic #leadership? I bet most of you can’t answer this question. Largely because there are so many definitions of leadership out there that we are all confused. Today I’m going to share the best definition of strategic leadership I have found from Ireland & Hitt (2005). One of the most important tasks of a leader of an organization is to set and implement strategy. But what do we…
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The List: Handy Online Tools
The List: Handy Online Tools
Grammarlyis an online grammar checker. If you write a lot and find editing a chore, this site can be a helpful tool. It provides grammar, spelling, and typo check. It is around $140 per year. It has a few problems, including the fact that it uses U.S. language usage, so as a Canadian or Brit you will be annoyed by constant corrections of words like behaviour. While not perfect, it’s pretty…
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Cultivating Curiosity & Leadership
Cultivating Curiosity & Leadership
Curiosity is the root of innovation, creativity, and learning. I love to explore new ideas, I love to make things happen. Yet sometimes I don’t feel very challenged, which makes it hard to get curious. I found a useful survey to help you measure your curiosity and exploration levels.
Over the past week or so, I’ve met with some of my students, who are starting exciting new lives – new…
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Welcome Back, Kotter
I haven’t published a blog in months. So in an effort to slowly build up to writing, here are a couple of interesting articles I’ve run across in the past couple of weeks for your reading pleasure.
This first article came to me via the Vocal Coach, about the annoying vocal trick many young women are using. It’s called the vocal fry. But before you read this article on the vocal fryfrom Time…
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The Oscars And Bias
The Oscars And Bias
Yet again Hollywood has failed women. Of the eight best picture nominees, Birdman, Whiplash, American Sniper, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything, and Boyhood, only Boyhood could even remotely be considered to be about a woman’s story, and even then, the story is about a boy, and his relationship with his mother.
As Gina Davisnotes in this post on the…
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Getting the Story Right: Acts of Leadership
Source: Detroit Free Press, 2015
For the past couple of weeks the news has been full of a Detroit man, James Robertson, who walked to work 33 kilometers each day to get to work. The public’s response was amazing. Mr. Robertson received over $300,000 from a crowd funding campaign and a new car from Ford. This is a nice story; but it is the wrong story.
Yes Mr. Robertson should be rewarded for…
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