ABSTRACT
In a well-balanced community at least as much thought and effort and interest will be spent in being good followers as in being good leaders. An efficient and well-selected board of directors of a large corporation commonly is made up of men who are good followers as well as good leaders. A large corporation often employs a general manager, who presides at most board meetings. Many a potential leader with a clear and sound purpose, especially if somewhat in advance of his time, has failed because no one took the trouble and interest to understand his purpose and to work for it. Good followers in a community will not let the finest community projects die because the leader does not quickly have popular support. Democratic leadership and democratic followership become indistinguishable as they blend together in the endlessly varied interplay of co-operation.
