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 […]
Colleen Sharen
Colleen is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Studies at a large university in Ontario. In her past, she was a marketing executive at several large consumer package goods companies.
Priorities
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 […]
A New Year’s Mantra
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 […]
Is Management Women’s Work?
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 […]
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?
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 […]
Empathy and Design
Empathy is 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
How Assumptions About Others Can Diminish Our Communities
It was weird listening to Christina Parker-Hopkins, President and Co-Founder of the Iron Sirens Women’s Motorcycle Club talk about sisterhood. I was at my Business and Professional Women club meeting last week, […]
Thinking is Hard Work 