Week of 2/25

I have found myself very uninspired this week. Hence why this is being written on Sunday. We had an exam on Wednesday, no biggie. Monday was really the same old, same old. I know I am not supposed to recap classes but really my frame of mind has not been very condusive to class. I must say that I am still at class and my work is just as good but I have not been retaining anything but the necessaries this past week. But whatever......something about leadership.

I have been getting the magazine, INC. I don't remember if I bought this from my little sister as a fundraiser or what but I have been getting it here lately. Anyways, there was a preview of a book, I apologize that I have thrown the magazine away and no longer have the title or author, who talked about the gaining importance of followership. Followership is the ideal that the people under the leader really have all the power. These followers are crucial for anything to be successful. If the followers do not believe in a project, for any reason personal or professional, they will in essence kill it. Granted this was a preview so that is really all the article spoke of. As I read it I thought at first how this was absolutely crazy. Followers more important than leaders? That's absurd......but not really. A leader is nothing without people who will follow. The nature of the relationship of the follower, is important and does carry significant weight in determining the outcome of anything done by the organization. I still do believe that the emphasis of the followers is over-rated by this book. Leadership is still more important than followership. It is the job of a good leader to recognize followers who want to kamikaze a project or who are just not giving their best, and either convert them or get rid of them, for the sake of the organization. Leadership is about making the tough decisions and backing them to their followers and doubters, followership doesn't do that. I am not completely dismissing this concept but with my education so far, I do not give it as much credit as the author did. Also if followership was so important, wouldn't they be teaching it in college? That's what I thought.....later.