The New Psychology of Leadership

Recent lead­er­ship lit­er­a­ture notes that an effec­tive leader is highly depen­dent on fol­low­ers, and fol­low­ers need to see their leader as one of them. For lead­er­ship to func­tion well, lead­ers and fol­low­ers must be bound by a shared iden­tity and by the quest to to use that iden­tify as a blue­print for action. If you con­trol the def­i­n­i­tion of iden­tify, you can change the world.