Word: followership
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Andrew Bellas ’03, who was a student in Hunt’s social studies tutorial “Leadership and Followership,” wrote in an e-mail that Hunt was impressive both inside and outside of the classroom. “[His tutorial] was widely known among concentrators to be one of the best,” Bellas wrote. “He was an excellent teacher and everyone really loved...
...What do leadership and followership amount to now? W. says that he can summon spirits from the vasty deep. But will they come...
...engaged in wireless trading, building a portfolio, then the followers of the land may grow frisky and cavalier about their leaders. They indulge the conceit that Bill Gates or Alan Greenspan is much more important in the scheme of things than the President is. A lot of the American followership has grown almost jeeringly independent, confident of its self-sufficiency...
Lemmings have a peculiar habit of followership that results in mass migrations often ending in death by drowning...
These signs of assertiveness are the more unsettling because they represent such a departure from Germany's postwar behavior. For four decades its foreign policy has been one of self-effacing followership, never leadership. To Germans, the worst political sin was Alleingang, going it alone. Boastfulness was bad, even when such accomplishments as the postwar economic miracle justified a certain degree of pride; any reference to success was routinely followed by a word of gratitude to the Western Allies and a word of apology for the Nazi past...