The word "follower" these days is closely associated with social media like Twitter, who you are following and why. Forget the blue bird and celebrities for just a minute. As an employee, you can ...

Everyone wants to be a leader. You get to make the key decisions. You will get the most credit when things go well. You will also get the blame when things go wrong. Yet few people understand that to ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. You hear a lot of commentary about a lack of leadership, but ...

Many times over the past five years, I have written about how you can become a better leader. This has been a tremendous journey. Let me assure that there is a great deal more to come. However, I want ...

Do people who see themselves as followers ever become leaders? There is hope to those of us who toil on the floors in hopes of making it to the corner office. A new study published in the Journal of ...

We both spend our lives researching, teaching, and writing about leadership and agree with the conventional wisdom that leaders are important. Good leaders and bad leaders and the overwhelming ...

We all want to be leaders. Our corporate culture wants us to want to be leaders. We seek out training, we dress the part, we jockey to take the helm of a project or a team. No one wants to admit to ...

People often think leadership skills come naturally, but often people who consider themselves born leaders are not as effective as people who are first good followers, according to the Harvard ...

The professional world epitomizes leadership. No matter what industry you’re in, being a leader is the holy grail of personal, professional, and career success. As a result, most people want to become ...

Last week, I wrote about followership from a leader’s perspective. This week I’d like to address the other side of the equation. Great leaders can’t exist without great followers. It takes both roles ...

There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that focus on developing your leadership. But what about your followership? No matter what position we hold in an organization, we will do more ...