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Management Leaders Turn Their Attention to Followers

Experts in leadership are plentiful, and Barbara Kellerman, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, counts herself as one of them. Now, though, Ms. Kellerman and some other management experts are turning their attention to the other extreme of the organization chart: what matters to followers.

In "Followership," a book being published this winter, Ms. Kellerman argues that a big organization’s fate can be surprisingly dependent on how well it understands thousands of low-ranking employees, and makes them more effective. Entrepreneurs Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom took a similar perspective last year in their book, "The Starfish and the Spider," suggesting that lower-ranking employees, called catalysts, need to drive organizational change, instead of top bosses.

By George Anders

From The Wall Street Journal Online

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