Be the Horse or the Jockey
110 Tips and Techniques for Followers and Leaders
Why would I choose to be a Follower? What's the benefit to me? What does being a Follower really mean? Is following just the "absence of leadership"? What exactly do Followers do? These are just a few of the questions that leadership expert Jeanne Gulbranson tackles in Be the Horse or the Jockey: 110 Tips for Followers.and Leaders.
Using the metaphor of a professional horse race, Gulbranson makes a compelling case for the strategic and practical benefits of choosing to be a Follower. By taking the self-guided Comfort and Value Quiz, readers discover if they have a preferred role as a Follower or a Leader or if they are more comfortable as Flip-Floppers, moving back and forth from one role to the other. As Gulbranson clearly illustrates, because even those who are Leaders most of the time are also Followers some of the time, the lessons in Be the Horse or the Jockey apply to both groups of people in the leader/follower relationship. To support both Followers and Leaders, Gulbranson provides an innovative four-step Followership Process that serves as the framework for the 110 tips and techniques that take the uncertainty out of what-to-do-now.
Be the Horse or the Jockey is liberally sprinkled with humorous and poignant real-life anecdotes, examples and Life Lessons that bring on a laugh or a sigh in this fresh, how-to-be-successful guide.
Innovative and thought-provoking, Be the Horse or the Jockey: 110 Tips for Followers.and Leaders provides a clear and memorable approach to the strategic and practical role of Followers.and Leaders.
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Table of Contents: Be the Horse or the Jockey
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Life Lesson: Join the Chorus Line!
What Are Your Life Lessons?
Chapter One: Welcome to the Race!
Run a Strategic Race!
When the Lines Blur
The Follower and Leader Flip-Flop
What’s in It for You?
Life Lesson: Bring on the Passion!
Developing Your Life Strategy
Chapter Two: The Comfort and Value Quiz
Taking the Quiz
Comfort and Value Quiz
The Follower/Leader Continuum
Chapter Three: Revel in the Horses and the Jockeys!
The Definition of a Great Race Horse
Defining a Follower…All Kinds of Followers
Can This Be Right?
Life Lesson: Bread, Butter, and Jelly People
The Definition of a Winning Jockey
Defining a Leader…All Leaders!
Are You the Horse?
What is the Followership Process?
Summary: What Have You Discovered about Followers?
Chapter Four: The Art and Science of Followership
Life Lesson: The Sound of Art
What Are the Follower’s KSA?
The Top Six Abilities Table
The Blurred Lines between Followers and Leaders
Life Lesson: Blinged-out Sticks
Summary: What Did You Discover about KSA?
Chapter Five: Break Fast Out of the Gate!
Welcome to Animal Land and the PET Project
Start Strong!
Summary: 10 Things That Followers Do
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Chapter Six: Run Hard!
Beware of the Faux Followers
Keep Your Word!
Life Lesson: Skipping Through Life
Hang in There—Just Keep Running!
Life Lesson: 26 Miles but Not Counting
Life Lesson: Backing Off Easy
Don’t Crash and Burn!
Summary: 17 More Things That Followers Do
Chapter Seven: Say, “Whoa,” When You Need To!
What and When to Challenge
How?
The Why Not, What Not, When Not, and How Not of Challenging
Life Lesson: It’s Only Vinegar
When It’s Not Easy
When the Leader Says, “Whoa”
Summary: 29 More Tips and Techniques for Followers
Chapter Eight: Ride into the Winner’s Circle!
First, It’s All about You
Be a Change Agent
What Does a Change Agent Do?
Life Lesson: Mr. Clean
When It’s Just Not Right
Summary: 23 More Tips and Techniques for Followers
Chapter Nine: What Else Do Followers Do?
What Else Do You Do for Yourself?
Life Lesson: They Cost How Much?
What Else Do You Do for Your Leaders?
When It’s Not Easy
Life Lesson: Watch Out for the Camels!
Other Times When It’s Not Easy
Summary: 21 More Tips and Techniques for Followers
Chapter Ten: When You’re the Jockey
Learning Leadership from the Jockeys
Insider’s Tips on Being a Leader
What Should Leaders Expect from their Followers?
What Do Good Leaders Do for their Followers?
Summary: 10 Tips and Techniques for Leaders |
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