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The Art of Followership
How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations
Ronald E. Riggio (Edited by), RE Riggio (Author), Ira Chaleff (Edited by), Jean Lipman-Blumen (Edited by)
9780787996659, Wiley
Hardback, published 5 February 2008
416 pages, Tables: 10 B&W, 0 Color; Exhibits: 10 B&W, 0 Color
23.4 x 18 x 3.8 cm, 0.748 kg
"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)
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.
Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii About the Contributors xv Introduction xxiii PART ONE Defining and Redefining Followership ONE Rethinking Followership 5 TWO Leadership: A Partnership in Reciprocal Following 17 THREE Three Perspectives on Followership 25 FOUR A New Leadership-Followership Paradigm 41 FIVE Followership: An Outmoded Concept 53 PART TWO Effective Followership SIX Creating New Ways of Following 67 SEVEN Rethinking Leadership and Followership: A Student's Perspective 89 EIGHT The Hero’s Journey to Effective Followership and Leadership: A Practitioner’s Focus 95 NINE Courageous Followers, Servant-Leaders, and Organizational Transformations 109 TEN Followership in a Professional Services Firm 127 ELEVEN Developing Great Leaders, One Follower at a Time 137 TWELVE Getting Together 155 PART THREE The Pitfalls and Challenges of Followership THIRTEEN Following Toxic Leaders: In Search of Posthumous Praise 181 FOURTEEN What Can Milgram’s Obedience Experiments Contribute to Our Understanding of Followership? 195 FIFTEEN What Kind of Leader Do People Want to Follow? 209 SIXTEEN Bystanders to Children’s Bullying: The Importance of Leadership by “Innocent Bystanders” 219 SEVENTEEN Whistleblowing as Responsible Followership 237 PART FOUR Followers and Leaders: Research, Practice, and the Future EIGHTEEN Followers’ Cognitive and Affective Structures and Leadership Processes 255 NINETEEN Social Identity Processes and the Empowerment of Followers 267 TWENTY Lead, Follow, and Get out of the Way: Involving Employees in the Visioning Process 277 TWENTY-ONE Effective Followership for Creativity and Innovation: A Range of Colors and Dimensions 291 TWENTY-TWO Conformist, Resistant, and Disguised Selves: A Post-Structuralist Approach to Identity and Workplace Followership 309 TWENTY-THREE The Rise of Authentic Followership 325 Notes 338 Index 377
James MacGregor Burns
Warren Bennis
Robert E. Kelley
James Maroosis
Jon P. Howell and María J. Méndez
Ernest L. Stech
Joseph Rost
Ira Chaleff
Krista Kleiner
Gail S. Williams
Linda Hopper
Brent Uken
Rodger Adair
Gene Dixon
Jean Lipman-Blumen
Thomas Blass
Michael Maccoby
Lorna S. Blumen
C. Fred Alford
Robert G. Lord
Michael A. Hogg
Melissa K. Carsten and Michelle C. Bligh
Kimberly S. Jaussi, Andy Stefanovich, and Patricia G. Devlin
David Collinson
Bruce J. Avolio and Rebecca J. Reichard
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
