The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations
Edited by Ronald E. Riggio, Ira Chaleff and Jean Lipman-Blumen





Format: Hardcover, 416pp.
ISBN: 9780787996659
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: January 28, 2008

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From The Publisher:

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 disciplinesfrom philosophy, to psychology and management, to educationthe 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.


About the Editors

Ronald E. Riggio is director of the Henry R. Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. He is coeditor of The Practice of Leadership and Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations, both from Jossey-Bass, and coauthor of Transformational Leadership, from Erlbaum.
Ira Chaleff is president of Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates, adjunct faculty at Georgetown University, and the author of The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders, from Berrett-Koehler.
Jean Lipman-Blumen is Thorton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and professor of organizational behavior at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, and author, The Allure of Toxic Leadership and Connective Leadership.


Table of Contents

	Contents
	Foreword: James MacGregor Burns	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	About the Contributors	xv
	Introduction: Warren Bennis	xxiii
	Defining and Redefining Followership
	Rethinking Followership Robert E. Kelley	5
	Leadership: A Partnership in Reciprocal Following James Maroosis	17
	Three Perspectives on Followership Jon P. Howell and Maria J. Mendez	25
	A New Leadership-Followership Paradigm Ernest L. Stech	41
	Followership: An Outmoded Concept Joseph Rost	53
	Effective Followership
	Creating New Ways of Following Ira Chaleff	67
	Rethinking Leadership and Followership: A Student's Perspective Krista Kleiner	89
	The Hero's Journey to Effective Followership and Leadership: A Practitioner's Focus Gail S. Williams	95
	Courageous Followers, Servant-Leaders, and Organizational Transformations Linda Hopper	109
	Followership in a Professional Services Firm Brent Uken	127
	Developing Great Leaders, One Follower at a Time Rodger Adair	137
	Getting Together Gene Dixon	155
	The Pitfalls and Challenges of Followership
	Following Toxic Leaders: In Search of Posthumous Praise Jean Lipman-Blumen	181
	What Can Milgram's Obedience Experiments Contribute to Our Understanding of Followership? Thomas Blass	195
	What Kind of Leader Do People Want to Follow? Michael Maccoby	209
	Bystanders to Children's Bullying: The Importance of Leadership by "Innocent Bystanders" Lorna S. Blumen	219
	Whistleblowing as Responsible Followership C. Fred Alford	237
	Followers and Leaders: Research, Practice, and the Future
	Followers' Cognitive and Affective Structures and Leadership Processes Robert G. Lord	255
	Social Identity Processes and the Empowerment of Followers Michael A. Hogg	267
	Lead, Follow, and Get out of the Way: Involving Employees in the Visioning Process Melissa K. Carsten and Michelle C. Bligh	277
	Effective Followership for Creativity and Innovation: A Range of Colors and Dimensions Kimberly S. Jaussi, Andy Stefanovich and Patricia G. Devlin	291
	Conformist, Resistant, and Disguised Selves: A Post-Structuralist Approach to Identity and Workplace Followership David Collinson	309
	The Rise of Authentic Followership Bruce J. Avolio and Rebecca J. Reichard	325
	Notes	338
	Index	377

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