Education & Research

“Making followship visible reduces the appearance of unfairness and it makes improvement possible.”

Here is the latest education and research on followship. The 2008 White Paper on Followship is an excellent primer on the subject and contains a thorough bibliography with a lot of additional reading choices.

If you want a short list of the best articles and books on followship, check out our suggested reading list.

We have included a set of useful links to the best followship sites on the web, including access to articles where publicly available.

our articles

Download The Romance of the Follower. Industrial and Commercial Training, Emerald Group Publishing Limited:

• The Romance of the Follower - Part 1
• The Romance of the Follower - Part 2
• The Romance of the Follower - Part 3

SUGGESTED READING LIST CONTENT
Baker, S. D. (2007). Followership: The theoretical foundation of a contemporary construct. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 14, 50-60.

Castiglione, B. (1967).  The book of the courtier. George Bull (trans.). London, England: Penguin Books.

Heller, T. & Van Til, J. (1982). Leadership and followership: some summary propositions. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 18, 405-414.

Kelley, R. E. (1992). The power of followership: How to create leaders people want to follow,
and followers who lead themselves. New York, NY: Doubleday.

Latour, S. M. & Rast, V. J. (2004). Dynamic followership: The prerequisite for effective leadership. Air & Space Power Journal, 18, 102-110.

Meilinger, P. S. (2001). The ten rules of good followership. In Richard I. Lester and A. Glenn Morton (Eds.), AU-24 Concepts for Air Force Leadership (pp. 99-101). Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press.

Thody, A. (2000). Followership or Followersheep? An Exploration of the Values of Non-Leaders. Management in Education, 14, 15-18.

Zaleznik, A. (1965). The dynamics of subordinacy. Harvard Business Review.

USEFUL LINKS
The Ten Rules of Good Followership by Col. Phillip S. Meilinger. It’s pithy, well written, and says most of what needs to said. www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/au-24/meilinger.pdf

Another military connection (where most of the best followership research and thought comes from), it’s well worth reading http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NXL/is_4_18/ai_n9485449

For a small list with a few good links, keep an eye on http://www.govleaders.org/follow.htm

A very nice wiki put together by one of the originators of modern followership, Ira Chaleff, is at http://followership2.pbwiki.com/

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