Robert Hogan, Robert Kaiser, and Mark van Vogt argue that leadership can only be understood as the complement of followership. Focusing on leadership alone is like trying to understand clapping by studying only the left hand. They point out that leadership is not even the more interesting hand; it's no puzzle to understand why people want to lead. The real puzzle is why people are willing to follow.
This is a good book! Although I don't agree with all of the evolutionary background, Haidt makes a good case for reason serving intuition, and not the other way around. In other words, people don't usually believe and behave based on pure reason, but we use our reason to justify the way we already believe and behave. (And this is often a good thing!)
He also shows that well-meaning people come to radically different moralities because they build from different foundations, as shown in the figures below (courtesy of the author's website righteousmind.com).
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