Sally Jenkins wrote a fascinating article on Leaderhsip (Followership) (click on the highlighted text to read the article). I encourage you to read the entire article. Below are some key points I took away from her observations:
- Leadership isn't about domination, it's about persuasion.
- Leadership only works when people find you credible and grant you their cooperation.
- Leadership is more than charisma and talent.
- The study of Leadership should be on the followers, not the leader. Therefore, the study is on "Followership".
- Followership--Followers want four things: (a) Integrity (b) Confidence (c) Decision-Making (d) Clarity
- What Followers Do Not Want: (a) Irritability (b) Moodiness (c) Untrustworthiness (d) Indecisiveness (e) Needless Micromanagement (f) Excessive Authority--Followers see these things as incompetent.
- Leadership study of the number of flight errors of a crew correlated to the personality of the captain.
- Crews led by captains perceived as agreeable, self-confident and emotionally reliable made the fewest errors.
- Crews with captains considered arrogant, hostile, passive-aggressive or dictatorial made the most errors.
- Leaders lose their teams when the followers withdraw their consent to be led.
- Red Auerbach--"You don't motivate teams, you motivate players, one by one, by building relationships."
- A leader is worth nothing without voluntary commitment, because the followers are actually more in charge of the outcome.
- Ever aspiring leader should ask, "Would people choose to follow me?"
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