{"id":1478,"date":"2019-10-30T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T00:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2019-10-30T20:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T00:24:54","slug":"in-praise-of-followers-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/30\/in-praise-of-followers-9\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Followers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the course of this article it talks and preaches the idea that most of us are not leaders in fact majority of our population is followers. In the article it expresses an opinion saying, &#8220;So followership dominates our love and organizations, but not our thinking, \u00a0because our preoccupation with leadership keeps us from considering the nature and the importance of the follower.&#8221; This brought me to the Idea of &#8220;groupthink&#8221; a little bit because we are all filled with an idea or an opinion of the leader whether that be negative or positive. So in return we are all opinionated on how to lead and most people will sit back and reflect on how much better that leader could be doing meanwhile they aren&#8217;t doing anything about the situation but criticizing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The article more stresses on the component of how to be a good follower. TO be a good follower one must be intelligent, in order to attain the information from the follower, and enthusiastic, and reliant for participation. Otherwise, the leader gets no reaction on how good or bad they are performing. Also in the artcicle it mentions how even when we are in a leadership position we are still following because for every committee we chair, there are several other members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the course of this article it talks and preaches the idea that most of us are not leaders in fact majority of our population&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/30\/in-praise-of-followers-9\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Praise of Followers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","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\/1478","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\/4437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}