The Art of Followership
How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations
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Beschreibung
The Art of Followership puts dynamic leader-followerinteraction at the forefront of discussion. It examines themultiple roles followers play and their often complex relationshipto leaders. With contributions from leading scholars andpractitioners from the burgeoning field of leadership/followershipstudies, this groundbreaking book outlines how followers contributeto effective leadership and to organizations overall.
Drawing from various disciplines?from philosophy, to psychologyand management, to education?the book defines followership and itsmyriad meanings. The Art of Followership explores thepractice and research that promote positive followership andreveals the part that followers play in setting the standards andformulating the culture and policies of the group.
The contributors include new models of followership and explorefresh perspectives on the contributions that followers make togroups, organizations, societies, and leaders. The book alsoexplores the most current research on followership and includesinsights and perspectives on the future of leader-followerrelationships.
Autor*in
Ronald E. Riggio
Themen in »The Art of Followership«
Business & Management Führung Management / Leadership Management / Teams Management f. Führungskräfte Management f. Teams Organisationsverhalten Organizational Behavior Wirtschaft u. Management
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"Andy and Patty share indispensable insight to leaders ofinnovative change in their chapter, Effective Followship forCreativity and Innovation." (ThinkAboutItHarder.com,05/05/08)
The Art of Followership turn leadership book on their heads. Asthe authors argue, followership is more important now that it hasever been. (Consulting Magazine, 05/05/08)
The Art of Followership is actually quite different inpresentation.... Some chapters are quite short; others describeindividual programs as a springboard for talking about thephenomenon. But most are scholarly think-pieces that are quiteconceptual. (Financial Executive, 05/01/2008)
"With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners,this book highlights the different model, perspectives, and meaningof followership." (T + D Magazine, 04/28)
"My long-time collaborator James MacGregor Burns, who wrote theforward in this book, deemed it is a ' landmark book in thecomplexities of the leader-follower dynamic. I agree." (TLCNewsletter, 04/2008)
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