Follow the Leader

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Most leadership models start with trying to identify what great leaders do. In Follow the Leader, global speaker, consultant and leadership expert Emmanuel Gobillot answers a much more fundamental question to anyone wanting to become a great leader: 'what do great followers want?'. In this fast-paced and well-researched book, he identifies the key elements of leadership success and the proven pathways to developing the charisma we all seek in the leaders who truly inspire and motivate us. He breaks down the all-important 'charisma' into eight critical elements, explaining how each component works and offering practical development steps for each. Getting these steps right will transform good leaders into magnets for great followers, harnessing an unstoppable power for business achievement.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of figures (p. x)
• Acknowledgements (p. xi)
• Introduction: the wrong question (p. 1)
• Part 1 Emotional logic (p. 9)
• 01 Why do we follow? (p. 11)
• 02 Emotional logic: the follower's decision-making engine (p. 25)
• 03 Charisma: the one thing that matters (p. 41)
• Part 2 The values dimension (p. 55)
• 04 Compassion (p. 57)
• 05 Hope (p. 73)
• Part 3 The character dimension (p. 91)
• 06 Asperity (p. 93)
• 07 Rhetoric (p. 109)
• 08 Integrity (p. 125)
• 09 Simplicity (p. 139)
• Part 4 The achievement dimension (p. 153)
• 10 Measurement (p. 155)
• 11 Action (p. 171)
• Concluding thoughts (p. 187)
• Index (p. 195)

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CHOICE Review

A plethora of leadership books are published every year discussing how leaders should think and act. Gobillot, a leadership and organizational effectiveness consultant, offers a different perspective, addressing what followers want in their leaders. Leaders are not leading if they do not have followers following. The author introduces the book by discussing the wrong question often asked in leadership books: what do leaders do? Gobillot contends the question is really about what followers want. He breaks down the eight critical elements of charisma a leader needs to connect with followers and understand what they want in their leaders. The monograph is divided into four parts: "Emotional Logic," "Values Dimension," "The Character Dimension," and "The Achievement Dimension." Each chapter begins with a quick overview of the questions the chapter is designed to answer and why they really matter. All chapters conclude with a very brief summary of the essence of the chapters. The premise of the monograph is the importance of creating relationships with followers by connecting with their values, demonstrating character aligned with these values, and finally delivering on these values. See related, Barbara Kellerman's Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders (CH, Oct'08, 46-0996). Summing Up: Recommended. Leadership studies collections, upper-division undergraduate students through professionals. W. A. Garrett Troy University