ABSTRACT

Fans have a role, and as such, they are "leaders" as it relates to the creation and evolution of the NFL's Followership Agreement. Finding and nurturing this leaderless reason to grow is a challenge facing every industry, organization, and individual business in the world. Without a traditional "leader," each team member had an equal stake and authority to participate a process that allowed them to focus purely on their own specialties. But, as beneficial as this leaderless process was to patient health, there was a significant emotional loss for everyone involved. Quite the opposite of being the product of only one person's leadership and experience, the leaderless team tapped the combined experience of all their colleagues and patients around the world–effectively crowdsourcing the entire operation. Leaderless growth works well in medicine because there is a strong reason to grow that serves as its Followership foundation.