Followership

It's a circle.

Followership is also a circle.

At times, I have got to follow the person who's giving me direction, my parents, my Lord and Savior.

You, in this conversation, are leading us.

Yeah.

So I think just to summarize what I've been saying, followership is not obedience.

Followership is not passivity.

It's not weakness.

I think it's a skill in its own right.

They are not conscious of evolving, becoming more superior versions of themselves, deploying their giftings to serve in such a way that becomes compulsory.

Spelling for followership.

Followership was supposed to be a reaction.

Not a call.

Followership was supposed to be a reaction.

Remember we prayed before we started this.

And I took the journey very slowly.

That narrative gives people a transformation moment and the idea of a legacy.

Followership or joining doesn't give people that strong psychological reward.

Marcus and Kitayama's work on self-construal showed decades ago that American culture sits at the far end of the independent self-construal spectrum.

Later, cross-cultural work by Vignoles and his collaborators explored the simple East-West split and showed that in many cultures, selfhood runs on multiple dimensions.

Founding something caring-shaped satisfies that socialization.

The founder reflex takes the shape of socially rewarded femininity.

Kellerman's book, Followership, argues that follower engagement is as consequential as leadership.

She developed a typology of five follower types based on level of engagement and argued that the skills of engaged followership can be learned.

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is one of the mysteries of the kingdom by which men become mighty.

Followership is one of the mysteries of the kingdom by which men become mighty.

Let me take it again.

Followership is one of the mysteries of the kingdom by which men, ordinary men, weak men, limited men become mighty.

Every time you find a man of stature and strength in life and destiny.

Especially in the spirit.