Jean Lipman-Blumen discusses her book, “The Art of Followership.” She begins by explaining that this book came out of a conference at the Claremont Colleges about followers and leadership. She discusses how she co-edited the book with two other people who had different backgrounds in management and teaching. She talks about how followers have a responsibility to refuse the orders of a leader if they believe these orders to be harmful. She discusses whistle blowing and how it’s better to have strength in numbers. Lipman-Blumen describes several public examples of bad followership including the employees at the Enron Corporation. She ends the interview by discussing the Milgram Experiment where subjects are tested on their willingness to harm others at the command of a leader.
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