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		<title>Leaders as Role Models &#8211; II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I wrote in Part I of this post, the idea that leaders should be role models goes back thousands of years. Moreover, it lives still – at least in theory. Of course, some of the instructions that we used to get are dead and gone. For example, we used to be told that at&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/leaders-as-role-models-ii/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Leaders as Role Models &#8211; II</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Leaders as Role Models &#8211; I</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The idea that leaders should be role models – should themselves model the character and behaviors they want their followers to emulate – goes back to ancient times. Confucious wrote in the Analects that the sage, Master Zeng, said, “I examine myself three times a day. When dealing with others, have I been trustworthy? In&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/leaders-as-role-models-i/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Leaders as Role Models &#8211; I</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Totalitarian Leadership &#8211; the Case of North Korea</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most Americans – including me – know little about North Korea. Still, some of us know that in contrast to South Korea, which is staunchly capitalist, North Korea is stalwartly communist. Some of us know that while North Korea remains poor the economy is measurably more robust than it was five years ago. Some of&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/totalitarian-leadership-the-case-of-north-korea/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Totalitarian Leadership &#8211; the Case of North Korea</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Women and Power, Our Bodies, Ourselves &#8230; Continued</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been writing about the physical and psychological differences between women’s and men’s bodies for years.* Especially because this is a subject that the leadership industry continues strenuously to avoid. Leadership experts do not ask, at least not out loud, if these enormous differences have any impact whatsoever on women and leadership. On why even&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/women-and-power-our-bodies-ourselves-continued/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Women and Power, Our Bodies, Ourselves &#8230; Continued</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Followership &#8211; A Case Study</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My new book &#8211; Why We Follow Leaders – and Why We Don’t – will be published in October. It gives the reasons why usually we follow – and why occasionally we don’t. This post is in keeping with the theme.                                                               * Nothing will baffle future historians more than why America’s “legislative branch descended&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/followership-a-case-study/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Followership &#8211; A Case Study</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Quiz: Who Leads the United Nations?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You don’t know? OK, I’ll give you a hint. The leader is the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN). “What is a Secretary General?” you ask. Well, technically the Secretary General is the UN’s chief administrative officer. More to the point, the Secretary General is the individual primarily responsible for the organization. He is&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/todays-quiz-who-leads-the-united-nations/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Today&#8217;s Quiz: Who Leads the United Nations?</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Leadership &#8211; The Edifice Complex</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has an edifice complex. He is obsessed with building as large as possible, as showy and ostentatious as possible, new somethings, from ballrooms to helipads to triumphal arches. Further, he is hellbent on stamping his name on key buildings already existing &#8211; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/leadership-the-edifice-complex/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Leadership &#8211; The Edifice Complex</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bowling Together is Better than Bowling Alone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The title of Robert Putnam’s well-known book (2000), Bowling Alone, became a mantra for those arguing that community in America had withered or even fractured. Since then, loneliness has become a running theme, culture and media in tandem growing our isolation. While there are some situations in which being alone, and acting alone, has advantages,&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/bowling-together-is-better-than-bowling-alone/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Bowling Together is Better than Bowling Alone</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Leadership from Bad to Worse&#8230; Continued&#8230;.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know &#8211; I’m repeating myself. In fact, I’m repeating a point about which I wrote an entire book. But I can’t help it. Every day confirms the importance of my message – leadership that is bad inevitably gets worse. It inevitably, inexorably, gets worse unless it is stopped or at least slowed by someone(s)&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/leadership-from-bad-to-worse-continued/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Leadership from Bad to Worse&#8230; Continued&#8230;.</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Looking for Corporate Leaders</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Writing recently in the Financial Times, Andrew Hill described how four top headhunters now recruited top talent. Seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. First no one disputed the turbulent times. Political polarization, economic uncertainty, and rapid technological change were some of the challenges on which everyone agreed. To put it&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/looking-for-corporate-leaders/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Looking for Corporate Leaders</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
		
		
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