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of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking) decries the glorification of leadership

skills in college admissions and curricula and argues that the world needs more followers. It needs team

players, people called to service, and individuals committed to something outside of themselves. Followership

is also receiving more attention now because of three major works devoted exclusively to the process of

following: The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great leaders and Organizations by Riggio,

Chaleff, and Lipman-Blumen (2008), Followership: How Followers are Creating Change and Changing

Leaders by Kellerman (2008), and Followership: What is It and Why do People Follow? by Lapierre and

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Carsten (2014). Collectively, these books have put the spotlight on followership and helped to establish it as

a legitimate and significant area of study.

In this chapter, we will examine followership and how it is related to the leadership process. First, we will

define followers and followership and discuss the implications of these definitions. Second, we will discuss

selected typologies of followership that illustrate different styles used by followers. Next, we will explore a

formal theory of followership that has been set forth by Uhl-Bien, Riggio, Lowe, and Carsten (2014) and new

perspectives on followership suggested by Carsten, Harms, and Uhl-Bien (2014). Last, we will explore types

of ineffective followership that contribute to destructive leadership.

Followership Defined

It is challenging to define followership because the term conjures up different meanings for people, and the

idea of being a follower is positive for some and negative for others. For example, followership is seen as

valuable in military situations when soldiers follow orders from a platoon leader to complete a mission, or

when passengers boarding a plane follow the boarding agent’s instructions. In contrast, however, followers

are thought of negatively in such situations as when people