01.03 On Followership
Critics of followership say that “follower” suggests subservience. No doubt employees should take more ownership and be as proactive as Ira Chaleff’s “courageous followers.” But language matters, and followership is an unfortunate choice of words. To address this issue we need to see how followership rests on a confused notion of leadership. [...]
01.02 The Portable Guide to Leadership
Airport bookstores are crowded with books on leadership and each one seems to promote a “leadership lack.” They’ll each begin with phrases like “The most pressing issue in organizations is that leaders lack integrity…or empathy…or strategy…or even humor. These books continue by laying out the authors’ simple framework for developing [...]
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