In the course of our current review of the reasons to reject the concept of individual leadership as it is taught by its modern proponents, it is worth addressing the unavoidable fact that there really are some leaders around. In the last two posts, we looked at why a widely advocated leadership type is, at best, essentially irrelevant to organizational purpose and, at the sadly common worst, is actively destructive of it. But the general theme of our argument here . . .
Among the most dangerous of the many troubling features of the modern leadership movement’s prescriptions is its cultivation of the idea that leadership, at its best, is expressed by individuals so possessed of the leadership persona that they simply infect “followers” with the impulse to follow them. This is most often characterized as charismatic leadership, and it retains a strong place in writing and teaching about individual leadership to the present day. . .
Easily among the most disagreeable aspectsof the generally disagreeable concept of exceptional individual leadership is the noxious notion of “followership.” When the modern leadership movement’s supporters find even themselves waxing too reverential about the singular qualities of their hopes and dreams, when they realize that there may be a problem . . .
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