followership
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Origin of followership
Example Sentences
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In actuality, what it nurtures and rewards is dutiful followership.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2025
Demetrius Fields, a standup comedian who amassed 2.8 million followers on TikTok from posting comedy sketches, said he spent a long time building his career and followership on the platform.
From Washington Times • Mar. 26, 2023
I can make a pretty good case that our problem is less one of leadership than of followership.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2013
That scene illustrates a powerful truth: If someone doesn't have followers, he or she is, by definition, not a leader, and followership is always something granted by others.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2010
In practice the citizens of the freest republic were face to face with one of the oldest political dilemmas confronting mankind: the question of leadership and followership.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott
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