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		<title>Good Leadership: Effectiveness versus Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So one of my students says &#8220;Hitler was a good leader&#8221;. The whole class freezes, looking profoundly uncomfortable, especially the German exchange student. But no one says anything.  (I was waiting for the fight to break out). Why the profound &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/good-leadership-effectiveness-versus-ethics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1610&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Leadership: You Might Be Wrong</title>
		<link>http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/open-leadership-its-hard-to-be-humble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open leadership is the next great thing. Charlene Yi, in the Winter 2012 issue of Rotman Magazine defines open leadership as: &#8230;having the confidence and humility to give up the need to be in control, while inspiring commitment from people &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/open-leadership-its-hard-to-be-humble/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1606&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership and Action: Elizabeth 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agentive leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabethan era]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We associate effective leadership (and followership) with action. The leader identifies and issue or opportunity and takes action. When we hire, there is evidence that someone perceived to be &#8220;agentive&#8221; (those who take action) is more likely to be considered &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/leadership-and-action-elizabeth-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1602&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confusing Leadership and Role Models</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hard Work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political correctness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is a leader? That question has become very loaded today. It has become politically incorrect to say that someone isn&#8217;t a leader, or doesn&#8217;t have leadership potential. The democratization of leadership has led to beliefs that anyone can be &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/confusing-leadership-and-role-models/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1599&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Models of Followership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a mental model of a good follower? Of a bad follower? In my last post I wrote about Implicit Leadership Theories, and in this post, I&#8217;m going to talk about Implicit Followership Theories. Recent research from Thomas &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/mental-models-of-followership/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1591&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Implicit Leadership Theories</title>
		<link>http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/implicit-leadership-theories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ILT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental model]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As quickly as you can, think about your vision of a leader. What does this person look like?  What is their personality? What skills do they have? How do they behave? What don&#8217;t they do? Just use the first ideas &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/implicit-leadership-theories/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1584&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Downside of Proactivity</title>
		<link>http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the-downside-of-proactivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organizational Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team-building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I wrote a post on &#8220;proactive&#8221; behaviour, talking about the risks of encouraging people to be proactive, but then ignoring their input.  One of my readers recently posted this comment regarding the post: I have a team &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the-downside-of-proactivity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1581&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Authenticity: Fake It &#8216;Til You Make It</title>
		<link>http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/authenticity-fake-it-til-you-make-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another nail in the coffin of authenticity.  Have you ever heard of the ideomotor effect?  Studies show that our physical behaviour can impact our beliefs, feelings and emotions, through a mechanism known as priming. Studies have demonstrated that when &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/authenticity-fake-it-til-you-make-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1578&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Moments of 2011</title>
		<link>http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/leadership-moments-of-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Failure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the New Year, I like to review the year past, to put perspective on life and the world. So this year I asked my friends on Facebook, and followers on Twitter for their perspective on leadership in 2011 &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/leadership-moments-of-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1570&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership and the Holiday Season</title>
		<link>http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/leadership-and-the-holiday-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen Sharen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is an interesting season in the workplace these days. It&#8217;s charged with social tensions and political correctness. It seems that our Western liberal guilt has encouraged us to acknowledge the religious beliefs of others, encouraging the acceptance and celebration &#8230; <a href="http://colleensharen.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/leadership-and-the-holiday-season/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=colleensharen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6407056&amp;post=1566&amp;subd=colleensharen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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