num_pages: 336
description: This groundbreaking volume provides the first sweeping view of followers in relation to their leaders deliberately departing from the leader-centric approach that dominates our thinking about leadership and management. Barbara Kellerman argues that over time followers have played increasingly vital roles. For two key reasons this trend is now accelerating. Followers are becoming more important and leaders less. Through gripping stories about a range of people and placesfrom multinational corporations such as Merck to Nazi Germany to the American military after 9/11Kellerman makes key distinctions among five different types of Isolates Bystanders Participants Activists and Diehards. And she explains how they relate not only to their leaders but also to each other. Thanks to Followership  we can finally appreciate the ways in which those with relatively fewer sources of power authority and influence are consequential. Moreover they are getting bolder and more strategic. As Kellerman makes crystal clear to fixate on leaders at the expense of followers is to do so at our peril. The latter are every bit as important as the former which makes this book required reading for superiors and subordinates alike.
language: English
title: Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders
publisher: Harvard Business Review Press