Creating The Followers of Tomorrow

It stands to reason, though, that if leadership is important, so too is followership. You can’t have one without the other.

While you’d be hard-pressed to find a graduate school that promises to churn out “tomorrow’s followers,” the movement is real and growing, spawning serious academic inquiry as well as accessible books on the subject, the latest of which is Ira Chaleff’s Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do Is Wrong.

An executive coach and management consultant, Mr. Chaleff is also author of The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders, now in its third edition. He sat down recently to discuss why a good follower is hard to find (… read more …)