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# Systems view of leadership
- URL: https://www.pesec.no/systems-view-of-leadership/
- Published: 2021-09-27T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-27T06:59:59.000Z
- Description: No followers, no leaders.
- Author: Bruno Pešec
- Tags: Leadership

There are no leaders without followers.

Or in other words, for leadership to exist there needs to be followership, and vice versa.

I appreciate [Hawkins](https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1476750304047984?ref=pesec.no)'s statement that *"'leadership' is as much about the 'ship' as it is about the 'leader', yet most development efforts still focus on the individual out of context and act as if leadership resides inside the leader."*

Consider [the whole](https://www.pesec.no/how-are-you-considering-the-whole-system/) to evade [the halo effect](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Effect-Business-Delusions-Deceive-Managers/dp/1476784035?ref=pesec.no).