Topic > The Benefits of Leadership - 610

Leaders will always exist and to be a leader you have to lead people in the right direction. So as long as there are leaders, there will be followers. My high school didn't have the typical cliques depicted on television; there were no cheerleaders or jocks in sport coats waiting by the lockers. We didn't have lockers, jocks or cheerleaders, period. The social system was very different. But one thing remained the same between the exaggerated version of high school and my own high school of 600 people in a village in Nigeria. There were popular kids. And three things usually determined why kids became popular: they had money and therefore had things that others wanted, they were cute or smart, or they were just friendly. The popular kids turned out to be the leaders and wherever there are leaders there are followers. A follower is defined as someone who travels behind someone or something. Many people refuse to be identified with this group because everyone wants to be on top or the "winner" The goal of this article is to argue that in a leader-follower relationship, fol...