Word: followership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FOLLOWERSHIP...
...many citizens are determined to have it their way-preferably at government expense-that suggests a breakdown in followership. "There seems to be no disposition to follow leaders," said Bunting. "Clausewitz once said that the most dangerous situation in a military campaign was a thwarted offensive. We are living now in a time of thwarted offensive. I mean the offensive of mind, of intellect; it follows very largely from the arousals of expectations during the Kennedy Administration...
...civic groups, clubs, churches, neighborhood associations, unions," there are many who may not be leaders in their jobs but who during "the rest of their time [exercise] a certain kind of leadership respected by neighbors, friends or other members of the community. You get a more intelligent, responsible followership if the followers themselves have experience with leadership...
Besides discussing the economic aspects of inflation, Duesenberry also told the forum that inflation is a social phenomenon with largely social costs. The equitable distribution of inflation's costs depends on the quality of political "followership," Duesenberry said...
...Needed: Followership...