{"id":1433,"date":"2019-10-29T00:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2019-10-29T00:30:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:30:31","slug":"follower-agency-the-value-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/29\/follower-agency-the-value-of-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Follower Agency: The Value of It All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kelley\u2019s article was extremely interesting to me. Throughout his piece he introduces this frequently overlooked idea of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">follower agency<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Usually in assessing the success of the group, much of it is chalked up to the leadership ability of the group\u2019s leader, or how well they delegated power&#8211;little attention ever paid to the people that actually make it happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kelly\u2019s distinguishment between all the types of followers, as opposed to categorizing them all as merely followers, suggests that closer attention to be paid to the followers, as many of them are not just \u201cyes men\u201d, and should not be objectified.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also think it is interesting how he discusses what makes a follower effective, and how in that discussion he mentions the bank that thrived without leaders and relied solely on follower responsibility. This makes me question the creation and existence of leadership as a whole. There is this idea that tasks are more likely to be completed if there is a leader in charge, but where and how did this become adopted as a truth? And how does this impact both people\u2019s desire to work and their work ethic? Does having a leader actually facilitate a task\u2019s successfulness? Or does it actually hinder it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelley\u2019s article was extremely interesting to me. Throughout his piece he introduces this frequently overlooked idea of follower agency. Usually in assessing the success of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/29\/follower-agency-the-value-of-it-all\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Follower Agency: The Value of It All<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","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\/1433","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\/4570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}