Are Great Leaders Also Great Followers ?

This is a question posed by Professor Robert Klitgaard, President of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Humility and will are the classic characteristics of great followers. If this is so, then followership and leadership intersect at the highest levels of both. Becoming better leaders may entail our becoming better followers.

You may be the lowest rank in NCC, recruit. But one day, with humility and will, you will become a great leader.