The Origins of Followership
by Prof. Micha Popper (2023) The article analyzes people’s initial attraction to leaders. The general claim is that the origins of attraction to leaders are rooted in both our phylogenetic need at the species level, and our psychological needs at the individual and collective level. The attraction to leaders stems from followers’ response to two […]
Distinctions and Affinities Between Leadership Emergence and Leadership Effectiveness
Prof. Micha Popper (2022) There is a growing understanding that the foundations of followership are the key to deciphering the nature of leadership. (Lapierre, Carston, 2014; Shamir, Pillai, Bligh and Uhl-Bien, 2007; Popper & Castelnovo, 2018; Uhl-Bien, Riggio, Lowe, Carsten, 2014). This claim is central in the article’s attempt to understand processes underlying leaders’ emergence […]