How to create leaders people to follow ... And Followers who leadthemselves.

For every leader there are dozens of followers working closely with them. This updated third edition speaks to those followers and gives them the insights and tools for being effective partners with their leaders.

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.

Hope and practical help for parents whose greatest longing is to shepherd their children into a vibrant faith in God. For Christian parents, there is no greater joy than seeing their children learn to walk with the Lord. And there is no greater fear than that their children will walk away from God. After serving together in pastoral ministry and raising their now-grown children, Phil and Diane Comer know those hopes and fears well. Like all new parents, they were intimidated and unsure about how to take on the task of spiritually training their young children. But now, with all four of their children grown and establishing their own households of faith, Phil and Diane have embarked on a quest to help the next generation of parents raise passionate Jesus followers. Drawing on years of pastoral counseling, teaching, leading, and decades of watching families from the perspective of pastors and leaders in ministry, Phil and Diane instruct, guide, encourage, and offer hope and practical help to Christian parents. Raising Passionate Jesus Followers is a manual full of practical, biblically based, and time-tested guidelines that parents will be able to turn to again and again through every stage of their children's development, including . . . Formulating a plan Laying the foundation, ages 0-5 Doing the framing, ages 6-12 Installing the functional systems, ages 13-17 Completing the finish work, ages 18-22 And keeping the front door open for your grown children

In a striking departure from past practices, Barbara Kellerman explores the fact that although we persist in viewing political and business leadership separately, the similarities between them far outweigh the differences. Kellerman claims that thinking of government and corporate leaders as a breed apart contributes to the dysfunctional gap between them, and she argues that in order to tackle those political, economic, and social problems that are the most intractable, political and business leaders will have no choice but to work together.

In this examination of leadership and followership, Sweet proposes an intentional shift from leadership cults to followership cultures. He critiques the issue of leadership obsession but focuses on reigniting a passion for the "follow me" theme found throughout the gospels and the entire New Testament.

“This dark, pitch-perfect novel about our dependence on technology for validation and human connection is as addictive as social media itself.” —People Magazine Orla Cadden is stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss, who has a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss’s methods are shady—and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can’t be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California village where government-appointed celebrities live every moment of the day on camera, a woman named Marlow dreams of fleeing the corporate sponsors who would do anything to keep her on-screen. Despite her massive popularity—twelve million loyal followers—when Marlow discovers that her whole family history is based on a lie, she summons the courage to run in search of the truth. Followers traces the paths of Orla, Floss and Marlow as they wind through time toward a cataclysmic event that sends America into upheaval. This darkly funny story reminds us that even if we obsess over famous people we’ll never meet, what we really crave is genuine human connection. “Terrific writing about terrifying ideas.” —Washington Post “An engaging confection wrapped around a thoughtful critique.” —USA Today “Dazzling.” —Time “Razor-sharp.” —Entertainment Weekly “Big Brother meets Ingrid Goes West.” —theSkimm “[An] intelligent page-turner.” —Wall Street Journal “Dark, witty, astute.” —Slate “Black Mirror fans are going to love Megan Angelo’s Followers.” —PopSugar “Engrossing.” —NPR “Fascinating.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Intricate and brave.” —Booklist (starred review) “Addictive.” —KirkusReviews (starred review)

Having an impressive title does not make someone a leader. True leaders inspire commitment from executives, managers, physicians, and staff. Without this commitment, you have nothing but a title. What separates a true leader from a titled executive? Leaders have followers. This book takes an honest and refreshing look at what it takes build "followership" in today's complicated healthcare environment. Learn how to build an organizational culture that eases tensions and motivates staff to meet growing demands. This book will help you assess your leadership skills and the culture of your organization. Act on your findings with proven strategies that boost morale and engender committed employees. Healthcare leaders face a unique set of challenges. This book provides a clear roadmap for building trusting, productive relationships in an often turbulent and stressful environment.

This book is about Followership, which is one of the eleven Core Competencies of Effectiveness: Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem-Solving, Decision-Making, Awareness, Training, Motivating, and Character.Followership is the most underrated and highly needed transferable skill on the planet.Followership is your ability to add value to your boss by supporting the accomplishment of his goals-no matter what!As such, the most critical follower tasks you'll learn here include how to: -Demonstrate accountability, anticipate the consequences and effects, follow up and follow through, take immediate action, use preemptive actions, and eliminate the unresolved issues. -Provide feedback to your boss, contribute to your boss's meetings, and uncover hidden expectations.-Build consensus with a team, conduct backbriefings, build professional relationships, listen actively, and assess performance and potential. -Avoid the causes of project failures, anticipate and mitigate risk, and create contingency plans.-Conduct meetings, rehearsals, brainstorming meetings, decision briefings, progress briefings, and after-action reviews. -And much, much more.This book is for anyone who reports to another person for their work assignments and wants to become more effective and successful at work. This includes employees working for an employer, and small business owners, entrepreneurs, and the self-employed working for a customer, client, or patient. Simply stated, this book is for everyone in the workforce, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority.Before we continue, let me ask a few questions. -How effective are you at work and how do you know for sure? -What new skills or abilities have you acquired in the last twelve months? -What contributions have you made to your current position in the past year? If you're having difficulty answering these questions, you're not alone and I can help you change all that. Look, as far as your boss is concerned, your effectiveness is always a measure of your ability to consistently produce excellent results and your ability to add value to all those who helped you produce your results. And this is the part most people forget. You may be the top producer, but if you haven't added value to all those who've helped you produce your results, including your boss, you'll never become effective or successful, period, end-of-story!And how can you add value to others? Well, 90% of that has to do with how you treat them. Do you treat everyone with dignity, respect, and kindness? If you do, you're adding value to them without even knowing it!Here you're about to learn the most critical followership skills you were never taught in high school or college and that your boss and customers expect that you have. If you lack these abilities, your career will remain stagnant, as you watch others rise - and wonder why? You have too much to lose by not taking a more active role in learning the most critical followership skills needed for successful job performance. I know that doing nothing and waiting for someone else to make you more effective is the definition of complacency, which will kill your career.If you're ready to elevate-your-game to the next level, this book will be the best investment you'll ever make in your career.