RECENT BOOKS
Chaleff, Ira The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To & For Our Leaders (rev. 3rd.ed.) Berrett-Koehler, 2009
The updated third edition of Ira Chaleff's classic text on Followership, The Courageous Follower (Berrett Koehler: 1995, 2003, 2009) includes a new chapter, “The Courage to Speak to the Hierarchy.” Much of Chaleff’s model is based on followers having access to the leader. But today, followers can be handed questionable policies and orders that come from many levels above them—even from the other side of the world. Chaleff explores how they can respond effectively, particularly using the power now available through advances in communications technology. The book is available at Amazon in print and for Kindle. It can also be ordered in print or as an e-book directly through the publisher, Berrett-Koehler.
Hollander, Edwin P. Inclusive Leadership: The Essential Leader-Follower Relationship Routledge Academic, 2008
Inclusive Leadership is a process of active followership emphasizing follower needs and expectations, with the guiding principle of "Doing things with people, not to people," in a two-way influence relationship. While the author focuses on leadership side of leader- follower relations, this book presents many topics and insights of interest to followers,
Ricketson, Rusty Follower First: Rethinking Leading In the Church. Heartworks Publications, 2010
" Follower First explores the most serious lay literature on follower-leader relations and examines its application in a profoundly Christian context. Professor Ricketson adds significant spiritual insights to these models and offers corollaries for practice of the leader and follower roles within committed Christian communities. Undoubtedly, people of faith will be touched by the wisdom and at least some will be called to engage in deep personal and communal transformation." — Ira Chaleff
Follower First is available throughits publisher: http://www.heartworkspublications.com
In conjunction with the Third Edition of The Courageous Follower, Ira Chaleff is now offering an online, reflective self-assessment test for personal and professional growth and development. It is now available online from Berrett-Koehler’s website.
Also: Announcing an updated 3rd Edition by Ira Chaleff:
The updated third edition of Ira Chaleff's classic text on Followership, The Courageous Follower (Berrett Koehler: 1995, 2003, 2009) includes a new chapter, “The Courage to Speak to the Hierarchy.” Much of Chaleff’s model is based on followers having access to the leader. But today, followers can be handed questionable policies and orders that come from many levels above them—even from the other side of the world. Chaleff explores how they can respond effectively, particularly using the power now available through advances in communications technology. The book is available at Amazon in print and for Kindle. It can also be ordered in print or as an e-book directly through the publisher, Berrett-Koehler.
Lipman-Blumen, Jean The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians--and How We Can Survive Them. Oxford University Press, 2006
Why do we knowingly follow, seldom unseat, frequently prefer, and sometimes even create toxic leaders? Lipman-Blumen argues that these leaders appeal to our deepest needs, playing on our anxieties and fears, on our yearnings for security, high self-esteem, and significance, and on our desire for noble enterprises and immortality. She also explores how followers inadvertently keep themselves in line by a set of insidious control myths that they internalize. For example, the belief that the leader must necessarily be in a position to "know more" than the followers often stills their objections. In addition, outside forces--such as economic depressions, political upheavals, or a crisis in a company--can increase our anxiety and our longing for charismatic leaders. Lipman-Blumen shows how followers can learn critical lessons for the future and survive in the meantime. She discusses how to confront, reform, undermine, blow the whistle on, or oust a toxic leader. And she suggests how we can diminish our need for strong leaders, identify "reluctant leaders" among competent followers, and even nurture the leader within ourselves.
Toxic leaders charm, manipulate, mistreat, weaken, and ultimately devastate their followers. The Allure of Toxic Leaders tells us how to recognize these leaders before it's too late.
Maccoby, Michael The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow . Harvard Business School Publishing. 2007
In The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow, Michael Maccoby revises the psychology of leading—from the perspective of followers, not just the ones they follow. he shows that people are willingly followed not only because of their stellar qualities, but because their qualities fit the demands of a specific context. Drawing upon his academic training as a psychoanalyst and anthropologist and more than thrity-five years coaching leaders, Maccoby shows how the leaders we need can engage their followers and make them collaborators.
Be the Horse or the Jockey uses the metaphor of a professional horse race to explore the leader/follower relationship and the Follower role as a desirable, attainable, and rewarding part of a Life Strategy. Horse or Jockey provides an uncommon approach to the strategic Follower role that disputes and changes the perception that being a Follower is “second best.” The reader will discover what followership means, why choosing to be a Follower should be included in a personal Life Strategy, and how to deliver on the Followership Process. The self-guided Comfort and Value Quiz allows readers to discover their preferred role as Followers, Leaders, and/or Flip-Floppers. A practical list of 110 tips and techniques—illustrated by examples, anecdotes, and lessons drawn from life—supports the four-step Followership Process. Be the Horse or the Jockey has received the attention and endorsement of professionals in the field of leadership and followership development including Ira Chaleff, who has written that “…Gulbranson has the eye of an artist. What others see and pass by, she stops and plumbs for meaning until the light bulb flashes and she has extracted new insight to use in her life and to share in entertaining ways with her readers."
Author Jeanne Gulbranson’s book, Be the Horse or the Jockey: 110 Tips and Techniques for Followers…and Leaders (BookSurge) is an award-winning Finalist in the Career category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards®.
The Art of Followership (selected for the Warren Bennis Series) examines the multiple roles followers play and their often complex relationship to leaders. Inspired by the first national conference on followership (conducted by The Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont), it contains contributions from many who attended and others from a host of disciplinesranging from philosophy, psychology and management, to education. The book explores the practice and research that promote positive followership. Contributors discuss new models of followership and fresh perspectives on the contributions that followers make to groups, organizations, societies, and leaders. A promotional video lecture by Jean Lipman-Blumen has been released in conjunction with the book.
Kellerman, Barabara Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders. Harvard Business Press, 2008
Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, has taught the first course on followership at university level. In her latest book, Followership, readers can appreciate the ways in which those with relatively fewer sources of power, authority, and influence are consequential even as they are getting bolder and more strategic. As Kellerman makes crystal clear, to fixate on leaders at the expense of followers is to do so at our peril.
McNamara, Patrick and David Trumbull An Evolutionary Psychology of Leader-Follower Relations. Hauppauge NY. Nova Publishers, 2007
These authors, from the Boston University School of Medicine, summarize recent advances in our understanding of leader-follower illustrate these principles with the lives of ancient political and military leaders from Greece and Rome. They review psychologic, cognitive neuroscientific and evolutionary approaches to leader-follower dynamics and illustrate these dynamics as they played out in the lives of the most eminent of the military and political leaders of the classical world. They summarize what is known about leader-follower relations by reviewing all extant papers on the topic in the psychology, neuroscientific and evolutionary psychology literature. The raw material for the book came from Plutarch's compendium of 46 biographies of Greek and Roman leaders.
Parker, James F. Do the Right Thing: How Dedicated Employees Create Loyal Customers and Large Profits. Philadelphia: Wharton School Publishing, 2007
James F. Parker, former Southwest Airlines CEO, tells how after 9/11, Southwest made three pivotal decisions: no layoffs, no pay cuts, and no-hassle refunds for any customer wanting them. The result, according to Parker, was that Southwest remained profitable and its revenue passenger miles for 4Q01 held steady while the rest of its industry nearly collapsed. These pivotal decisions grew naturally from Southwest's culture of mutual respect and trust. Parker offers deeply personal insights into that culture, revealing how those same principles are used by other people and organizations. While not a study of followership per se, Parker shows how leadership decisions can help create a community of effective, committed, and outspoken followers.
BOOKS ON RELATED TOPICS
Rich, Theresa Staying Sane In Crazy Times. 2010
This book is it's written squarely for the "little guy" who keeps the organization and its life running. It serves as a helpful resource in tough business climates for those working down in the ranks on how to keep up their spirit and contribute to collectively making it through. Rich did her dissertation on followership so her worldview is informed by that-- Ira Chaleff
Elizabeth Doty has written a new book,
The Compromise Trap: How to Thrive at Work Without Sellong Your Soul (Berrett-Koehler, 2009) that, while it is not about followership per se, teems with advice that those playing a follower role may find particularly useful.
Robert M. Wachter and Kaveh Shojania's Internal Bleeding:The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes
(Rugged Land, 2005) looks at the failures of communication under pressure within today's hospitals, where a small mistake can result in death or serious injury. What makes this book valuable to those in both leader and follower roles, particularly in the health field, is its weath of suggestions for improving the flow of information and procedures. The authors, both medical doctors, have written a book as compelling as a novel. As such, it can be read and understood by general readers.--Elisabeth Higgins Null
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