Chapter 6 How to Teach the Missing Basics of Followership to Today's Young Talent

Followership: The Missing Basics

  • Respect for context: Reading and adapting to the existing structure, rules, customs, and leadership in an unfamiliar situation.
  • Citizenship: Accepting, embracing, and observing, not just the rights, but the duties of membership/belonging/participation in a defined group with its own structure, rules, customs, and leaders.
  • Service: Approaching relationships in terms of what you have to offer—respect, commitment, hard work, creativity, sacrifice—rather than what you need or want.
  • Teamwork: Playing whatever role is needed to support the larger effort; coordinating, cooperating, and collaborating with others in pursuit of a shared ...

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