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The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations

By Ronald E. Riggio , Ira Chaleff , Jean Lipman-Blumen

Book information

Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Year
2008
ISBN
9780787996659, 0787996653
LCC
HD57.7 .A78 2008
Open Library ID
OL11097929M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1701044 bytes)
Series
J-B US non-Franchise Leadership
Pages
419\419
Topic
Business
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

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.

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