Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change And Changing Leaders.

This book offers the first sweeping review of followers and examines how followers relate to leaders. The author remarks that the usual focus on leaders at the expense of followers has distorted the real dynamic between leaders and followers. The book describes five main types of followers: isolates, bystanders, participants, activists, and diehards. The book describes the range of followers from the completely withdrawn to the fully engaged. The book explains how followers, who seemingly have no apparent power, authority, or influence, have an impact on leaders.

Source: Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change And Changing Leaders. By Barbara Kellerman, 2008, Harvard Business Press, Boston, MA, ISBN: 978-1-4221-0368-5.