Transcript: If you've learned a lot about leadership and making a movement, then lets watch a movement happen, start to finish in under 3 minutes. and dissect some lessons A leader needs the guts to sland alone and ndicurous aui whai he s oting o simple, t's atmost instructionat This is ley You must be easy to followt Now comes the first tollower with a crutiat role ha publicly shown everyone else how to follow Notice ine leader embraces tim as an equal so mt not about the leader anymore it's about them, plural Notice he's calling lo his friends to join in it takes guts to be a first follower You stand out and brave ndicule yourself Being a first follower is an under-appreciated form of leadership The nrat follower transforms a lone nut into a leader lf the leader is the nint, the first follower is the spark that really makes The 2nd follower is tuming point t's proof the first has done well Now ms nor lone nut and trs not tw n nuts Thrae crowd brid rowd is n movement musi be pubic Make sure outsiders see more than just the leader Everyone n to see the followers, bocause new foilowers emulate followers not the leader Now here come 2 more then 3 more immediately Now we've got momentum This is the tipping pointt Now we've got a movement! As more people jump in, irs no longer nsky if they were on the fence before, there's no reason not to join now. They won't stand out, they won't be ridiculed. and they will be part of the in-crowd. if they're hurry Over the next minute you'll see the rest who prefer to be part of the crowd because eventually they d be ridiculed for not joining And ladies and gentlemen that is how a movement is madel Let's recap what we learned. If you are a version of the shirtless dancing guy all alone, remember the importance of nurturing your first few followers as equals making everything clearly about the movement not you Be public Be easy to follow! But the biggest lesson here did you catch it? Leadership is over-glorified Yes it started with the shinless guy and he get all the credit, but you saw what really happened It was the first follower that transfomed a lone nut into a leader. There is no movement without the first follower We're told we all need to be leaders, but that would be really ineffective The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts lo be the first person to stand up and join in c 2010 Derek Sivers