Kellerman

rif. 419986 — Harvard Business Review Press. Hardcover. Good. This groundbreaking volume provides the first sweeping view of followers in relation to their leaders deliberately departing from the leader-centric approach that dominates our thinking about leadership and management. Barbara Kellerman argues that over time followers have played increasingly vital roles. For two key reasons this trend is now accelerating. Followers are becoming more important and leaders less. Through gripping stories about a range of people and placesfrom multinational corporations such as Merck to Nazi Germany to the American military after 9/11Kellerman makes key distinctions among five different types of followers: Isolates Bystanders Participants Activists a Harvard Business Review Press hardcover