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Followership: The Leadership Principle That No One Is Talking About
Followership teaches leaders how to replicate effective, biblical leadership qualities. CEOs, managers, parents, clergy, and students alike gain insight from the practical principles presented. If you lead, serve, or want to build a motivated, innovative, and successful team, you will receive outstanding results as you apply these teachings.
• Teaches principles for both leaders and followers and can be practiced in any aspect of building an organization.
• Declares and supports the fact that followership is what makes or breaks leadership, leadership is what makes or breaks an organization.
• Is your resource book for developing a dynamic followership culture within your life and organization.
Most likely you’ve been taught how to lead, but do you know how to follow? The true art of leadership is followership. There are many resource materials on leadership, yet little if any resources on how to follow your leader. Followership is designed to infuse your person and organization with the motivation, heart, and intention that every successful and lasting team is built upon.
Leaders of every type and level can use Followership as a training manual to build healthy, happy, high performance teams. Because of the character development aspects, it is an asset to network groups, support groups, and church home groups.
• Teaches principles for both leaders and followers and can be practiced in any aspect of building an organization.
• Declares and supports the fact that followership is what makes or breaks leadership, leadership is what makes or breaks an organization.
• Is your resource book for developing a dynamic followership culture within your life and organization.
Most likely you’ve been taught how to lead, but do you know how to follow? The true art of leadership is followership. There are many resource materials on leadership, yet little if any resources on how to follow your leader. Followership is designed to infuse your person and organization with the motivation, heart, and intention that every successful and lasting team is built upon.
Leaders of every type and level can use Followership as a training manual to build healthy, happy, high performance teams. Because of the character development aspects, it is an asset to network groups, support groups, and church home groups.
224 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2010
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March 18, 2021
I loved it! It was a great book study for my student ministry team. It helped develop them and give them insight on what it really means to be a follower/leader. It also helped me to be a better follower to my senior leadership. Tracey uses Scripture masterfully and pulls from it great leadership and Followership principles. I recommend this book to anyone in ministry who wants to develop an effective team.
September 6, 2013
I am thankful for any attempt to bring the topic of followership to the front of our minds and consideration. Armstrong offers Christians an opportunity to consider that intentionality in living and serving is not limited to only leadership functions and roles. He puts forth some good Bible passages to explore, and his analysis of Jonathan and his armor bearer (Chapter 7) is one of the highlights of this book.
Armstrong clearly aims this book at leaders (referencing followership as a "leadership principle" in the book's subtitle), oftentimes aiming his comments directly at situations that seem mostly relevant only to those who are in authoritative positions; this makes several parts of the book less helpful to those of us who are simply followers. As he puts forth his "leader-servant" idea (is this different from the popular notion of "servant leadership"?), he clearly assumes an aim toward everyone becoming a leader.
Unfortunately, the helpful content in this book is at times drowned out by the quality of the writing, the unclear chapter topics, and the all-too-frequent divergences onto tangents and soapboxes (the eating of pork & the leader's hygiene, to name but two). However, as there is currently little written on the topic of followership for Christian audiences (nor much written even in the non-Christian realm), this book is at least one opportunity to consider this crucial aspect of what it means to live and serve others in a godly way.
Armstrong clearly aims this book at leaders (referencing followership as a "leadership principle" in the book's subtitle), oftentimes aiming his comments directly at situations that seem mostly relevant only to those who are in authoritative positions; this makes several parts of the book less helpful to those of us who are simply followers. As he puts forth his "leader-servant" idea (is this different from the popular notion of "servant leadership"?), he clearly assumes an aim toward everyone becoming a leader.
Unfortunately, the helpful content in this book is at times drowned out by the quality of the writing, the unclear chapter topics, and the all-too-frequent divergences onto tangents and soapboxes (the eating of pork & the leader's hygiene, to name but two). However, as there is currently little written on the topic of followership for Christian audiences (nor much written even in the non-Christian realm), this book is at least one opportunity to consider this crucial aspect of what it means to live and serve others in a godly way.
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