One can argue that a gang leader provides effective leadership in achieving the gang's objectives. Now continue your journey by examining the qualities of effective leadership and good followership. Leadership and Followership One of the prerequisites for providing effective leadership is understanding the importance of quality followership. Being a good follower means that you have developed the capacity to be directed and guided by and individual or a collective. It means that you are motivated and highly disciplined in carrying out your responsibilities to completion.
Good followers are reliable and dependable people, whom leadership can count on in the clutch.
I am talking about assertive, critical thinkers, who will allow their talents to be utilized, but who will refuse to be used and abused by leadership. One learns the art and science of effective leadership by being a consistent and committed follower. What are your thoughts about the what education can learn from the military about developing education leaders. In studies of the Dimensions of Leader Behavior two important sets of group functions are listed as critical to group. Consider Stogdill's Leadership Dimensions.