The book draws upon various disciplines, from philosophy, to psychology and management, to education, to define and redefine followership and its variety of meanings. It looks at the practice and research that promotes positive followership and examines when and how followers fail to rise to the challenge of active constituency.

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

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

"Andy and Patty share indispensable insight to leaders of innovative change in their chapter, Effective Followship for Creativity and Innovation.” (ThinkAboutItHarder.com, 05/05/08) The Art of Followership turn leadership book on their heads. As the authors argue, followership is more important now that it has ever been. (Consulting Magazine, 05/05/08) The Art of Followership is actually quite different in presentation…. Some chapters are quite short; others describe individual programs as a springboard for talking about the phenomenon. But most are scholarly think-pieces that are quite conceptual. (Financial Executive, 05/01/2008) "With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, this book highlights the different model, perspectives, and meaning of followership." (T + D Magazine, 04/28) "My long-time collaborator James MacGregor Burns, who wrote the forward in this book, deemed it is a ' landmark book in the complexities of the leader-follower dynamic. I agree." (TLC Newsletter, 04/2008)