I want to begin my article with a meaningful quote of Mark Twain:
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
As any other social being, humans live in groups and depend on each other to survive. The main requirement for a social group to be called so, is the good symbiotic relationship - members of a group must coordinate their actions so as to help each other rather than harm. Followership is an inevitable phenomenon at the moment that you are part of a group and it has to do with the situation in which the individual's thoughts are influenced by other people.
In this aspect man is like a piece of floating steel and influenced (withdrawn) to move in different directions by electromagnetic force, coming from different sources. This description almost physical, can be clarified with a simple example. The professor enters in the classroom. Most stand up and a few,don’t. Those who are new to the auditorium is very likely to do as the majority. Apparently, their attractive forces resulted in the largest. Despite this simple case of followership, influenced by this phenomenon,everyone can do even more. There are powerful social forces that make people support an idea that may not believe or commit acts that otherwise would not even be discussed.
Let me say something about the relationship of two closed concepts: lidership and followership. Leadership is simply the authority on guiding the work of followership. The leader is characterized by a strong motive for responsibility and task performance, strength and perseverance in pursuing goals, originality in resolving protests.In each kind of society in different periods, the concept of leadership have changed and yet the need for their existence remains a fact of human ancient, even primitive.
But the relational model is based on flexibility and variety of the leader,which differs from the dominant one based on individualism and making quick decisions.
... I conclude this paragraph with an expression quite found:
"To become a good leader, must first become a good follower!" Robert Greenleaf
Hi Shpendi, your last sentence summarizes everything. From this we can deduct that, contrary to the belief of many people, leadership can be learned and the method of learning leadership is the followership.
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