{"id":1421,"date":"2019-10-28T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:21:39","slug":"in-praise-of-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/28\/in-praise-of-followers\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Followers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelley\u2019s <em>In Praise of Followers<\/em> focuses on the redefining of the relationship of leaders and followers, and the advantageous results that can come from it. Instead of viewing the two groups differently, Kelley calls for a reimagining of leaders and followers as equals, but with different roles. One of the most interesting points to me was when Kelley pointed out that effective followers have \u201cinitiative, self-control, commitment, talent, honesty, credibility, and courage\u201d (Kelley). However, these are traits commonly associated with leaders. I liked that Kelley was calling for the development of followership, because his ideas work to raise the agency or potential of everyone in the group, and that in turn will allow the organization to grow.<\/p>\n<p>This reading reminded me of Gardner\u2019s because he was also talking about how groups do not fall into easy divisions of leaders and passive followers. Rather, there is a dynamic between the leaders and followers that affects both in shaping the group. While the idea of a dynamic interaction between follower and leader is attractive, Kelley raised the point that \u201cin practice, followers who challenge their bosses run the risk of getting fired\u201d (Kelley). This is problematic, because it creates sort of catch 22, where the followers cannot be effective if they don\u2019t challenge the leader, but if they do, there is always the potential they will be fired, at least in the corporate world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelley\u2019s In Praise of Followers focuses on the redefining of the relationship of leaders and followers, and the advantageous results that can come from it.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/28\/in-praise-of-followers\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Praise of Followers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}