Followership
Worth buying if: You study organizational behavior or teams and want Kellerman’s taxonomy of follower types.
Skip it if: You’re looking for a how-to leadership playbook focused solely on CEO strategies.
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Summary
In this 2008 Harvard Business School Press study, Kellerman categorizes five follower types, examines follower power, and argues that understanding followership is essential to workplace dynamics and accountability.
Why this book now
As organizations wrestle with distributed authority and remote teams, Kellerman’s Followership returns as a practical lens for navigating influence and responsibility.
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- You study organizational behavior or teams and want Kellerman’s taxonomy of follower types.
- You teach or coach workplace leadership and need case-ready examples from Followership.
- You’re looking for a how-to leadership playbook focused solely on CEO strategies.
- You want a heavily data-driven empirical monograph rather than Kellerman’s conceptual analysis.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9781422103685
Worth buying if: You study organizational behavior or teams and want Kellerman’s taxonomy of follower types.
Skip it if: You’re looking for a how-to leadership playbook focused solely on CEO strategies.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Light Short sit-downs
At roughly 288 pages, this book is a focused, single-sitting professional read or short-course text for several classroom sessions.
What stands out here
This Harvard Business School Press edition foregrounds Kellerman’s five-part follower typology and real-world examples linking followership to accountability.
Best way to approach it
Read chapters on follower categories sequentially and pause to map examples from your own team to Kellerman’s types for practical application.
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