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I Follow Your Lead ... As Long as it Suits Me

Posted by Glenn Francis on Thursday, May 21, 2009, In : Followership

It used to be that people who held leadership roles were often the most educated, skilled, or experienced of a group. The group trusted that person’s judgement because of his or her knowledge, skill and experience. The better the leader”s ability to translate his or her background into vision and success, the more impressive the results the group could achieve. Look back in history at societies and institutions before mass education and you can find thousands of examples.

Something inter...

"Followers" or "NOT Followers": Followership framed simply

Posted by Glenn Francis on Friday, March 27, 2009,

So far I’ve avoided reading books or articles that outline “follower typologies”. I simply don’t believe these categorizations are accurate. At best, they represent pigeon-holing for convenience, and at worst they are a dangerous watering down of the idea of followership - a watering down similar to that which has occured to leadership as a result of the hundreds of definitions and typologies. A person is either a leader or is not a leader; similarly, a person is a follower or is not...

Follower Development

Posted by Glenn Francis on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, In : Leadership

I just came from a meeting on leadership development for a health care consulting organization. We talked at great length about how their clients were keen to develop leadership capabilities, especially the soft skills. Admirable very standard goals.

Whenever I find myself in discussions like this one though, some part of my mind - the part influenced by Peter Drucker - is shouting that followership develoment is more important. My mind jumps to Drucker's definition of "executive" as anyone i...

Common and Fatal Leadership Mistakes

Posted by Glenn Francis on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, In : Leadership

I had the privilege of attending as a guest a lecture by Warren Bennis. Anyone who has read anything about leadership and followership should have come across something by this "leadership leader".

At the lecture, he spoke on common and fatal leadership mistakes. I've posted the speech below ... the miracle of Youtube once again at work. Unfortunately for the time-pressed of us, the full lecture is over an hour long, so I'll blurb you on the the key points. I'd like those of you in the know to...
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