Exploring the \u27Flip Side\u27 of the Coin: Do Authentic Leaders Need Authentic Followers?

Leadership has been written about and studied for centuries, more often than not addressing how those in leadership roles influence their followers. This represents a very leader-centric view of the leadership phenomenon, where followers are considered as passive recipients of leaders\u27 influence. However, people\u27s attempts to exercise leadership cannot be successful if there are no other people who recognize and support their leadership. In other words, effective leadership cannot exist without some form of followership - this book re-casts the \u27follower\u27 role in a more favourable and productive light