Introduction: lead me--I dare you! Managing resistance to school change -- Defining the degree of followership -- Identifying reluctant followers: who are they and why do they refuse to follow the leader? -- Assessing the impact of personality on leading and following -- Defining leadership characteristics and their impact on reluctant followers -- Motivating reluctant followers -- Minimizing the dare: strategies for communicating with reluctant followers -- Helping followers become leaders -- Confronting those who will not change: who killed learning in the seventh grade?