After watching the video, Leadership Lessons and the Dancing Guy, select two of the following questions to which to respond:
- In the video, what is some of the terminology the narrator uses that shows that he recognizes the importance of “followership?”
- In the video, the narrator says that the leader embraces the first follower as an equal. Remember a time when you embraced as an equal or felt empowered as a follower. What caused you to feel this way? What role does the leader play in empowering followers?
- In the video, the narrator says that new followers emulate followers -not leaders. Do you agree or disagree?
- In the video, the narrator says that leadership is over-glorified. Do you agree or disagree?
- What’s it like to be a follower in a situation/organization/context with the traditional (industrial) mindset of followership? How is it the same or different from a context with a post-industrial mindset of followership?
- Have your thoughts on followers changed from today’s lesson? How? Are there ideas about followership that warrant more thought?
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