The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations: 146 (J-B Warren Bennis Series) - Hardcover

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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.

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Perspectives from The Art of Followership

"In many ways, great followership is harder than leadership. Ithas more dangers and fewer rewards, and it must routinely beexercised with much more subtlety. But great followership has neverbeen more important." —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor,University of Southern California, and author, Leaders and OnBecoming A Leader

"Thirty years ago, I wrote that 'one of the most seriousfailures in the study of leadership has been the bifurcationbetween the literature on leadership and the literature onfollowership.' Surely, I added, it was 'time that the twoliteratures be brought together.' I know of no work that faces thischallenge so well as The Art of Followership. I expect it to be alandmark work in the complexities of the leader-follower dynamic."—James MacGregor Burns, Woodrow Wilson Professor (emeritus) atWilliams College; author, Leadership; and senior editor, TheEncyclopedia of Leadership

"The field of followership is still in its infancy. It is rarethat people get a chance to build and shape a new area of inquiry.Collectively, we can grow the followership field so that it makespowerful contributions to society." —Robert E. Kelley,professor, Carnegie Mellon University, and author, The Power ofFollowership and In Praise of Followership

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Leadership is a topic that has been well-examined by scholars,consultants, and the media. By contrast, the study of followers hasbeen largely ignored. As this book reveals, the leader-followerdynamic is far more complex than has been previously imagined.

The Art of Followership puts leader-follower interaction at theforefront of discussion. It examines the multiple roles followersplay and their often complex relationship to leaders. Withcontributions from leading scholars and practitioners from theburgeoning field of leadership/followership studies, thisgroundbreaking book outlines how followers contribute to effectiveleadership and to organizations overall.

Drawing from various disciplines—from philosophy, topsychology and management, to education—the book definesfollowership and its myriad meanings. The Art of Followershipexplores the practice and research that promote positivefollowership and reveals the part that followers play in settingthe standards and formulating the culture and policies of thegroup. The contributors include new models of followership andexplore fresh perspectives on the contributions that followers maketo groups, organizations, societies, and leaders. The book alsoexplores the most current research on followership and includesinsights and perspectives on the future of leader-followerrelationships.