The Art of Followership puts dynamic leader-follower interaction at the forefront of discussion. It examines the multiple roles followers play and their often complex relationship to leaders. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from the burgeoning field of leadership/followership studies, this groundbreaking book outlines how followers contribute to effective leadership and to organizations overall.

Drawing from various disciplines?from philosophy, to psychology and management, to education?the book defines followership and its myriad meanings. The Art of Followership explores the practice and research that promote positive followership and reveals the part that followers play in setting the standards and formulating the culture and policies of the group.

The contributors include new models of followership and explore fresh perspectives on the contributions that followers make to groups, organizations, societies, and leaders. The book also explores the most current research on followership and includes insights and perspectives on the future of leader-follower relationships.

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PART 

ONE

S

ince 

Plato’s 

articulation 

of

the

philosopher 

king, 

scholars 

and

researchers 

from 

many 

disciplines 

have 

explored 

the

Great 

Plains 

of

leadership 

while 

hardly 

noticing 

followers. 

In

addition, 

they 

have 

scaled 

the

peaks 

and

examined 

the

endless 

crannies 

of

leadership, 

following 

a

treasure 

map

whose 

destination 

was

the

Holy 

Grail 

of

leadership. 

Seldom 

on

that 

map

did

a

“Followers” 

signpost 

appear. 

Some 

leadership 

researchers 

have 

excavated 

ancient 

cultures 

to

determine 

how

leaders 

lived 

and

ruled 

in

times 

and

worlds 

past. 

Others 

navigated 

the

turbulent 

waters 

of

history, 

in

search 

of

lost 

ideas 

and

ideals 

of

leadership. 

Still 

others 

have 

sifted 

the

sands 

of

individual 

leaders’ 

lives, 

seeking 

biographical 

shards 

that 

might 

offer 

clues 

to

this 

elusive 

phenomenon. 

During 

all

these 

arduous, 

centuries-long 

searches 

for

leaders, 

followers 

appeared 

only 

infrequently. 

Oddly 

enough, 

despite 

a

signiﬁcant 

literature 

on

social 

movements 

directly 

concerned 

with 

followers’ 

behavior, 

linkages 

to

the

ﬁeld 

of

leadership 

are

sparse. 

Even 

the

social 

psychological 

experiments 

on

conformity 

played 

a

minor 

role 

in

leadership 

theory. 

It

took 

sociologist 

Max

Weber 

to

nudge 

the

exploration 

of

leadership 

toward 

a

consideration 

of

followers 

and

their 

perceptions. 

1

His

discussion 

of

charismatic 

1

Deﬁning 

and

Redeﬁning 

Followership

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The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizatons
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Defining and Redefining Followership
Part 2: Effective Followership
Part 3: The Pitfalls and Challenges of Followership
Part 4: Followers and Leaders: Research, Practice, and the Future
Notes
Index

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