stallion, foal, harem, due followership

What Do You Think? Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5960.htmlOnline forum OPEN until July 23.
Leadership may be much-discussed, but followership merits equal attention, suggests HBS professor Jim Heskett. As a follower, what advice would you give other followers who want to have an impact on their jobs and organizations? As a leader, what do you do to foster good followership?

文章中提到 Zebra 比起馬來，很難馴養。Wikipedia 上有一些資料，大家可以參考看看。
Like most members of the horse family, zebras are highly sociable. Their social structure, however, depends on the species. Mountain zebras and Plains zebras live in groups, known as 'harems', consisting of one stallion with up to six mares and their foals. Bachelor males either live alone or with groups of other bachelors until they are old enough to challenge a breeding stallion. When attacked by packs of hyenas or wild dogs, a zebra group will huddle together with the foals in the middle while the stallion tries to ward them off.

foal
noun [C]
a young horse

foal
verb [I]
If a mare (= a female horse) foals, she gives birth to a baby horse.
stallion
noun [C]
an adult male horse which is used for breeding
Compare mare.

harem 
noun [C]
especially in the past in some Muslim societies, the wives or other female sexual partners of a man, or the part of a house in which they live



due (OWED) Show phonetics
adjective
owed as a debt or as a right:
The rent is due (= should be paid) at the end of the month.
Fifty pounds is MAINLY UK due to me/MAINLY US due me by the people I worked for last month.
Our thanks are due to everyone.
UK LEGAL He was found to have been driving without due (= the necessary) care and attention.

due Show phonetics
noun
give sb their due said when you are praising someone for something good they have done, although you dislike other things about them:
He failed again, but to give him his due, he did try hard.
I don't like the man but - give the devil his due - he works incredibly hard.

dues Show phonetics
plural noun
the official payments that you make to an organization you belong to:
Members of the society pay $1000 in annual dues.

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━━ a. 支払われるべき ((to)); 支払期日の来た; （尊敬などが）当然払われるべき; …のせいで, …による ((to)); 到着の予定［はず］で; …のはずで ((for; to do)); 正当な; 適当な; 十分な.
become [fall] due　（手形などが）満期になる.
in due (course of) time　そのうち, やがて（は）.
in due form　正式に.
━━ ad. （方向が）正確に, 真… (～ north 真北）.
━━ n. 当然与える［受ける］べきもの, 正当の権利［報い］; （普通pl.） 税金, 会費 （fee）; 手数料; （pl.） （在庫切れ品などの）承り注文.
give … his due　正当に扱う［遇する］.
due process of law　【法】法の適正な過程.
dues checkoff　組合費の天引き.