Weekend Essay by Jonah Lehrer: How Power Affects Us - WSJ.com: "Robert Kelly has written a book which may shed light on why this happens. The book is 'The Power of Followership; How to Create Leaders People Want to Follow, and Followers Who Lead Themselves'. The main thesis of this book is that everyone follows someone; that at the top of an organization leaders must follow groups like customers, the board, society; that followship has various 'styles' just as much as we recognize 'leadership styles'; that one has a greater choice over how one follows than how one leads; and, most importantly, that how you follow is very evident to those around you and effects whether or not they want to follow you. So how you follow effects how you lead.
Some leaders, especially those whose 'followership style' is 'whatever the boss says I do without question' when they rise to a level where they no longer have a single boss telling them what to do may then turn into a caricature of themselves. It looks like an about face but it really reflects a consistent weakness in their character."
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