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Book SynopsisThe 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 als
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"Andy and Patty share indispensable insight to leaders of innovative change in their chapter, Effective Followship for Creativity and Innovation.” (ThinkAboutItHarder.com, 05/05/08)
The Art of Followership turn leadership book on their heads. As the authors argue, followership is more important now that it has ever been. (Consulting Magazine, 05/05/08)
The Art of Followership is actually quite different in presentation…. Some chapters are quite short; others describe individual programs as a springboard for talking about the phenomenon. But most are scholarly think-pieces that are quite conceptual. (Financial Executive, 05/01/2008)
"With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, this book highlights the different model, perspectives, and meaning of followership." (T + D Magazine, 04/28)
"My long-time collaborator James MacGregor Burns, who wrote the forward in this book, deemed it is a ' landmark book in the complexities of the leader-follower dynamic. I agree." (TLC Newsletter, 04/2008)
Table of ContentsForeword xi
James MacGregor Burns
Acknowledgments xiii
About the Contributors xv
Introduction xxiii
Warren Bennis
PART ONE Defining and Redefining Followership
ONE Rethinking Followership 5
Robert E. Kelley
TWO Leadership: A Partnership in Reciprocal Following 17
James Maroosis
THREE Three Perspectives on Followership 25
Jon P. Howell and María J. Méndez
FOUR A New Leadership-Followership Paradigm 41
Ernest L. Stech
FIVE Followership: An Outmoded Concept 53
Joseph Rost
PART TWO Effective Followership
SIX Creating New Ways of Following 67
Ira Chaleff
SEVEN Rethinking Leadership and Followership: A Student's Perspective 89
Krista Kleiner
EIGHT The Hero’s Journey to Effective Followership and Leadership: A Practitioner’s Focus 95
Gail S. Williams
NINE Courageous Followers, Servant-Leaders, and Organizational Transformations 109
Linda Hopper
TEN Followership in a Professional Services Firm 127
Brent Uken
ELEVEN Developing Great Leaders, One Follower at a Time 137
Rodger Adair
TWELVE Getting Together 155
Gene Dixon
PART THREE The Pitfalls and Challenges of Followership
THIRTEEN Following Toxic Leaders: In Search of Posthumous Praise 181
Jean Lipman-Blumen
FOURTEEN What Can Milgram’s Obedience Experiments Contribute to Our Understanding of Followership? 195
Thomas Blass
FIFTEEN What Kind of Leader Do People Want to Follow? 209
Michael Maccoby
SIXTEEN Bystanders to Children’s Bullying: The Importance of Leadership by “Innocent Bystanders” 219
Lorna S. Blumen
SEVENTEEN Whistleblowing as Responsible Followership 237
C. Fred Alford
PART FOUR Followers and Leaders: Research, Practice, and the Future
EIGHTEEN Followers’ Cognitive and Affective Structures and Leadership Processes 255
Robert G. Lord
NINETEEN Social Identity Processes and the Empowerment of Followers 267
Michael A. Hogg
TWENTY Lead, Follow, and Get out of the Way: Involving Employees in the Visioning Process 277
Melissa K. Carsten and Michelle C. Bligh
TWENTY-ONE Effective Followership for Creativity and Innovation: A Range of Colors and Dimensions 291
Kimberly S. Jaussi, Andy Stefanovich, and Patricia G. Devlin
TWENTY-TWO Conformist, Resistant, and Disguised Selves: A Post-Structuralist Approach to Identity and Workplace Followership 309
David Collinson
TWENTY-THREE The Rise of Authentic Followership 325
Bruce J. Avolio and Rebecca J. Reichard
Notes 338
Index 377
