a physics analogy, you'd be moving through the medium, but you'd be creating a lot of drag, a lot of backwash.
There are two other qualities that I think are more positive reasons to follow someone. one is an honest belief in the person you're following. The other is selfish: the person following has to believe that following is the best thing to do at the time. You don't want people to follow you just because that's what they're paid for. You try to make everyone feel they have a stake in it, that they'll learn something (How to Be the Leader They'll Follow, 1990, p. 76).
Pollack's personal views on leading by good example will be confirmed, as group dynamics are explored; people will tend to live up to favorable expectation and good example.
Historically, the church provided one model on which conventional organizational hierarchy was based. Because the ultimate source of all authority and power was God, all members of an organization were perceived as upwardly dependent. The military provided the other model. In the military--under the conditions of war, which are the conditions for which the military organization is built--individuals are required to sacrifice their personal goals and needs to the necessities of the national crisis, and to accept dependence upward. Both these organizations have a punitive means of reinforcing this dependence (McGregor, 1985, p. 24). In the case of the church, the ultimate punishment is spiri
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