Book 6: Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders

As we know there is no leader without at least one follower. I find very interesting and important her classification and distinction among five different types of followers: Isolates, Bystanders, Participants, Activists, and Diehards. She explains the significance not only of how they relate to their leaders, but also of how they relate to each other and this makes us think and may be even change our followership style. Followership tells us that followers are becoming more important than leaders. It shows us how people with relatively fewer sources of power, authority, and influence matter. They matter when they do something - and they matter even when they do little or nothing. Barbara Kellerman wants to show us that being a follower isn’t necessarily a bad thing. She has chosen her situations in order to get her point, but in fact the extent to which the influence of followers outweighs that of leaders and vice versa is dependent on the situation.