followship

–noun
1. the position or function of a follower
2. an act or instance of following a strong, charismatic leader

Ashley and the group demonstrated excellent followship when they accompanied Seth outside, not knowing if he would remain in the frigid cold, or lead them to salvation.

followship

Reactionary behaviour by leaders of organisations adopting someone else's policies or positions in order to piggyback on its popularity or success.

Politicians are most guilty of this. Similar to me-tooism.

Coined by John Clark on the 7.30 report February 2008.

Man: I can't believe the opposition supports those tax cuts, they're graduating from the followship academy

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Followship

Noun. The act of sucking up to someone, brown-nosing. Usually used by public sector management to describe the characteristics required for elevation to a senior level.

He's crap at his job but he has excellent followship qualities - let's promote him again!

Followship

Verb; describes the act of blindly following instructions, usually given by those in charge, without thought or consideration. Brown-nosing, creep, sycophant

We must give that promotion to Paul, he can't do the job but he has excellent followship qualities.