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		<title>November 3, 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This American election was in the tradition of the American Revolution. Americans are old hands at rebelling against leaders they think cruel and corrupt. Deaf to their entreaties and blind to their realities. Unwilling or incapable of changing. From its inception in 1776 the United States of America has had an ideal. It was to&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/november-3-2026/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">November 3, 2026</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Playing With Fire &#8211; III</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is the last of a series of three posts, each titled, “Playing with Fire.” What’s the fire to which I allude? Autocracy. As I wrote in Part II of the series, leaderless groups – such as those recently demonstrating in Europe &#8211; never stay leaderless for long. Why? Because if they do, they will&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/playing-with-fire-iii/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Playing With Fire &#8211; III</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Playing With Fire &#8211; II</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Part I of this piece, posted a day ago, ended with this question: “Is there any connection between leadership and followership in Europe and leadership and followership in Latin America?” Coincidently &#8211; or not – in the last 24 hours my question was answered. Not by me but by national elections that happened to be&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/playing-with-fire-ii/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Playing With Fire &#8211; II</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Playing with Fire</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  In addition to the protests that turned violent last week in France, were demonstrations in Italy and Albania, in Spain and Portugal, in Belgium and Greece. The protesters were all ages but mostly they were young. Young people who were not merely angry, they were, they are, furious. Protesters are followers who feel screwed&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/playing-with-fire/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Playing with Fire</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Enablers, Cowards, and Collaborators</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my last post (10/20) I referenced my own just published book, Why We Follow Leaders – and Why We Don’t. I also &#160;mentioned two other recently published pieces, one a book, the other an article. Here – because they are all on the same theme &#8211; I list the last two again, this time&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/enablers-cowards-and-collaborators/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Enablers, Cowards, and Collaborators</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>FOLLOWERS DAY!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did you know that today was Followers Day? You didn’t?! Well, maybe because I’ve just designated it! You, like most people, probably think a lot about leaders but nearly never about followers. Well, I aim to change that. Not that leaders are unimportant. It’s just that they are not all important. Followers matter. Moreover, because&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/national-followers-day/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">FOLLOWERS DAY!</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Followers in France, Etc.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why We Follow Leaders &#8211; and Why We Don’t is the title of my new book. It will be published tomorrow by the University of Toronto Press. * The last paragraph of my last post read: Submission is the human condition &#8211; usually. But it is not always. As my new book makes equally clear,&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/followers-in-france-etc/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Followers in France, Etc.</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Submission is the Human Condition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why We Follow Leaders &#8211; and Why We Don’t is the title of my new book. It will be published next week by the University of Toronto Press. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; The title of this post is the same as that of the second chapter of Why We Follow…. So, I’m not surprised that Americans of all&#x2026; <span class="link-container"><a href="https://barbarakellerman.com/submission-is-the-human-condition/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Submission is the Human Condition</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Leaders as Role Models &#8211; II</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara]]></dc:creator>
		<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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