To understand leadership, you need to understand identity

Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This is the second part of an interview with Professor Alex Haslam, the world's leading voice on the study of social identity.

You can hear the first part of this interview on the website.

In this discussion we talk how social identity can help us understand leadership.

Alex talks about the CARE model of leadership.

C - Create the group

A - Advance the group (sometimes over themselves)

R - Represent the group

E - Embed the group identity in everyday life for the group

If you're interested in exploring Alex's recent contributions to discussions on leadership and culture these papers are a great place to start:

Alex Haslam is Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology at the University of Queensland. He is one of the world’s leading researchers on group dynamics, leadership, and identity. Over the past three decades, Alex has helped reshape our understanding of how people think, feel, and behave as members of groups, and why social identity is central to motivation, resilience, and effective teamwork.

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley.

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1:04.9	This is Eat Sleep Worker, Pete. It's a podcast about workplace culture. Hello, I'm Bruce
1:10.0	Aisley.
1:14.7	So this is the second episode, the second conversation with Professor Alex Haslam. And one of the things I mentioned in the first episode was how actually an understanding of identity and exploring identity starts to give you system thinking about how every team works.
1:27.0	I mentioned in the previous episode that I've got
1:30.4	another podcast immediately after this one with Jeremy Holt. Jeremy Holt is a sports scientist
1:35.1	and he found fabulous piece of research. He found that sports teams that have strong identities
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