The Courageous Follower; Standing Up To & For Our Leaders
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004. Second Edition, Updated and Expanded [stated] . Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 6.75 inches by 9.25 inches. xxiii, [1], 240, [8] pages. Select Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Ira Chaleff is the author of the award winning book, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders. He is one of a handful of leadership development thinkers to focus on the impact that followers? attitudes, actions and inactions have on the quality of leadership and organizational integrity and performance. Ira has conducted workshops on Leader-Follower relations for a wide range of complex organizations and Leadership Development Programs including AARP, NASA, Ernst & Young, The Federal Judiciary, The Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior University, The FBI National Academy, The Office of Personnel Management, The Brookings Institute and a range of private and public sector companies. He is a member of the planning committee that sponsored the first national conference on Followership "Rethinking Followership: New Perspectives, Paradigms and Practices" hosted by the Kravis Leadership Institute and the Drucker/Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont University. Ira and his colleagues at Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates use their understanding of leader-follower dynamics to enrich the executive coaching they conduct for individuals and senior management teams in the private and public sectors. Ira holds a degree in Applied Behavioral Science and is adjunct faculty at Georgetown University. He has been named one of the 100 best consultants in the US by Executive Excellence magazine. More