Why read The Courageous Follower?

Book cover of The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders

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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…

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1 author picked The Courageous Follower as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Barbara C. Crosby

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Ira Chaleff has long focused on “followership” and how followers can foster humane leadership and fight back against abusive leaders. I appreciate his dispelling the view of followers as necessarily passive. He clearly presents ways that active followers can short-circuit bad leadership by “speaking truth to power.” I definitely endorse his advice to leaders who want to foster courageous followership in their organizations and beyond. I’m also eager to read Ira’s recent book, To Stop a Tyrant: The Power of Political Followers to Make or Brake a Toxic Leader.

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