![]() Organizations stand or fall partly on the basis of how well their leaders lead, but partly also on the basis of how well their followers follow. Without his armies, after all, Napoleon was just a man with grandiose ambitions. But in searching so zealously for better leaders we tend to lose sight of the people these leaders will lead. So we study great leaders of the past and present and spend vast quantities of time and money looking for leaders to hire and trying to cultivate leadership in the employees we already have. ![]() We are convinced that corporations succeed or fail, compete or crumble, on the basis of how well they are led. The Power of Followership (Doubleday, 1992), and “In Praise of Followers”. ![]() Robert Kelley is a professor at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration. The balance of power between leaders and followers has shifted. On followership, states that an article by Robert Kelley in 1988 in the Harv. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty.
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