"Leaders and Followers Are the People in this Relationship" Joseph C. Rost. Here's a link to a youtube video that captures the essential elements of this concept; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnscKHpQMDw

1. 4th Speech
Title: Leaders and Followers Are the
People in this Relationship
Thursday, February 19, 2015

2. The Big Question?
Do you think people are born
leaders?
Or
They can be taught to be leaders?

3. The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create
Great Leaders and Organizations
YouTube Video by Jean Lipman-Blumen

4. The ‘Followership’ Concept by Joseph
C. Rost
• ‘Followership’ versus:
– ‘Constituents’ (Gardner, J.W., 1986)
– ‘Participants’ (Ford, J.F., 1990)
• The Problem?
– Industrial era notion of the word Followers; Passive &
Submissive;
1. Part of sweaty masses, hence separated from elites
2. Inability to act intelligently without guidance/control
3. Willingness to let other (elites) control their lives
4. Unproductive unless directed by others
– As opposed to Leaders; who are seen as being;
• Directive & active and,
• Elites

5. New Leadership Paradigm
1. Only those who are active in the relationship
can be considered followers
2. People can fall at various points on a continuum
of activity
3. Followers can become leaders; leaders can
become followers
4. People are leaders in some organizations,
followers in others
5. Followers do not do ‘followership,’ but rather
are participants in the leadership relationship

6. Thank You!
Let’s begin to be Active Followers
from today if we want to be great
leaders of tomorrow.