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. The concept of “courageous followership” is based on the award-winning book: The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders, written by Ira Chaleff and published by Berrett-Koehler. The book is a landmark in the newly emerging field of Leadership/Followership studies. If we practice being courageous in our mundane actions with leaders, we will be prepared if one day we are called upon to display extraordinary courage in our relation with a leader. By weaving the principle of accountable followership into our culture at every level, the fabric will become strong enough to resist the periodic attempts of individual leaders to emboss it with their own martial coat of arms. —Ira Chaleff. Since its original publication in 1995, The Courageous Follower has been put on reading lists everywhere from corporations and the military to unions and churches. This guide helps transform passive followers into active players who can help right leadership wrongs and support and foster a values-based organization. Many significant failures—from FEMA’s response to Hurricane Katrina to the recent economic collapse—could have been prevented or mitigated if those lower in the hierarchy were successful at communicating to leaders the risks they saw in the system. Ira Chaleff’s Courageous Follower model has facilitated healthy upward information flow in organizations for over 15 years. The Harvard Business Review called Chaleff a pioneer in the emerging field of followership—this new edition shares his latest thinking on an increasingly vital topic. Everyone is a follower at least some of the time. Chaleff strips away the passive connotations of that role and provides tools to help followers effectively partner with leaders. He provides rich guidance to leaders and boards on fostering a climate that encourages courageous followership. The results include increased support for leaders, reduced cynicism and organizations saved from serious missteps. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Leadership, Followership, Core Values, Loyalty, Relationships, Self-Assessment, Self-Management, Gatekeeping, Transformation, Feedback, Crisis Management
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Price: $75.00