Dont be a Leader, Be a Follower

We're told we all need to be leaders, but that would be really ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow. When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first person to stand up and join in.

Being a follower is an under-appreciated form of leadership. The follower transforms a lone nut into a leader. If the leader is the flint, the follower is the spark that makes the fire.



[edit on 2-3-2010 by Sianara]

Be a leader, set an example. Following dose not have to be done. Jesus told people to lead, they followed and created a religion out of it. Saying Jesus is the one and only, when all prophets say the same thing, only to different cultures.

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It is true. A wise man once told me: To be a leader is to know when to follow.

I have to disagree.
Each adult that has children or will have is a leader. A successful group is full of leaders that agree to follow a chain of command. If the top gets cut off then the next takes place. This is USMC leadership theory.
Compare that to the old USSR. Their leadership was their officer corps. When the officer is down there is nobody, in the platoon level, to take his place.

I suppose that even the hippie generation in their war protests were composed of leaders in all. The all had the moral courage to defy established authority with both known and unkown consequences.

Inherent in leadership is the ability to accept and execute orders.

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The concept of Leaderless Resistance is nothing less than a fundamental departure in theories of organization. The orthodox scheme of organization is diagrammatically represented by the pyramid, with the mass at the bottom and the leader at the top. This fundamental of organization is to be seen not only in armies, which are of course, the best illustration of the pyramid structure, with the mass of soldiery, the privates, at the bottom responsible to corporals who are in turn responsible to sergeants, and so on up the entire chain of command to the generals at the top.

This scheme of organization, the pyramid, is however, not only useless, but extremely dangerous for the participants when it is utilized in a resistance movement against state tyranny. Especially is this so in technologically advanced societies where electronic surveillance can often penetrate the structure revealing its chain of command. Experience has revealed over and over again that anti-state, political organizations utilizing this method of command and control are easy prey for government infiltration, entrapment, and destruction of the personnel involved. This has been seen repeatedly in the United States where pro-government infiltrators or agent provocateurs weasel their way into patriotic groups and destroy them from within.

In the pyramid type of organization, an infiltrator can destroy anything which is beneath his level of infiltration and often those above him as well. If the traitor has infiltrated at the top, then the entire organization from the top down is compromised and may be traduced at will.

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Good video.

That is all.

hmmm yes
leaderless resistance, very interesting topic, and has been used by many very successfully including the IRA.

thanks for the link

What if I don't want to be a leader or follower?