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9780470186411

The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470186411

  • ISBN10:

    0470186410

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-01-01
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

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 disciplinesfrom philosophy, to psychology and management, to educationthe 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Introduction
Warren Bennis
Defining and Redefining Followership
Rethinking Followership
Leadership: A Partnership in Reciprocal Following
Three Perspectives on Followership
A New Leadership-Followership Paradigm
Followership: An Outmoded Concept
Effective Followership
Creating New Ways of Following
Rethinking Leadership and Followership: A Followera's Perspective
The Hero's Journey to Effective Followership and Leadership: A Practitioner's Focus
Courageous Followers, Servant-Leaders, and Organizational Transformations
Followership in a Professional Services Firm
Developing Great Leaders, One Follower at a Time
Getting Together
The Pitfalls and Challenges of Followership
Following Toxic Leaders: In Search of Posthumous Praise
What Can Milgram's Obedience Experiments Contribute to Our Understanding of Followership
What Kind of Leader Do People Want to Follow
Bystanders to Children's Bullying: The Importance of Leadership by "Innocent Bystanders"
Whistleblowing as Responsible Followership
Followers and Leaders: Research, Practice, and the Future
Followersa??Cognitive and Affective Structures and Leadership Processes
Social Identity Processes and the Empowerment of Followers
Lead, Follow, and Get out of the Way: Involving Employees in the Visioning Process
Effective Followership for Creativity and Innovation: A Range of Colors and Dimensions
Conformist, Resistant, and Disguised Selves: A Post-Structuralist Approach to Identity and Workplace Followership
The Rise of Authentic Followership
Notes
Index
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