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Ira Chaleff is an author, speaker, workshop presenter and innovative thinker on the beneficial use of power between those who are leading and those who are following in any given situation.

His groundbreaking book, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to & for Our Leaders, is in its third edition, has been published in multiple languages and is in use in institutions around the globe including educational, corporate, government and military organizations. He is coeditor of The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations, part of the highly regarded Warren Bennis Leadership Series. He has written on the appropriate use of power in non-traditional settings in his creative non-fiction work, The Limits of
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“When fires are small, we can smother them with a blanket or a bucket of sand. When they become conflagrations, all we can do is escape with our lives, retreat, and attempt to create fire breaks. So it is with the escalation of a leader with authoritarian tendencies to one who becomes a full-blown tyrant.”
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“We must take time out to sharpen the ax or we’ll exhaust ourselves trying to fell trees with a blunt instrument.”
Ira Chaleff, The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders

“To the young and the not so young who make decisions to obey or not to obey, conscious of their personal responsibility for the outcome regardless of which decision they make, no matter who gave the order.”
Ira Chaleff, Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong

“there are some values worth standing up for, regardless of shifting cultural mores.”
Ira Chaleff, Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong

“When fires are small, we can smother them with a blanket or a bucket of sand. When they become conflagrations, all we can do is escape with our lives, retreat, and attempt to create fire breaks. So it is with the escalation of a leader with authoritarian tendencies to one who becomes a full-blown tyrant.”
Ira Chaleff, To Stop a Tyrant: The Power of Political Followers to Make or Brake a Toxic Leader




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