ABSTRACT
Key to this discussion is context, especially, here, as it pertains to Russia. Some leadership experts confirm the importance of context, but most do so only in passing. Context remains by and large a stepchild in Leadership Studies, second not only obviously to leaders, but lately even to followers, who increasingly are considered components of change. Context, though, remains widely ignored, its impact on leadership and followership widely underestimated and in consequence widely underappreciated. It is one of the reasons we fail even to distinguish among the different sorts of contexts, for example, context within, as in, say, a particular company, and context without, as in, say, the particular industry within which the company is located.
