In her letter to Lincoln she mentioned that she had been advocating a national thanksgiving date for 15 years as the editor of Godey's Lady's Book. George Washington was the first president to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, issuing his request on October 3, 1789, exactly 74 years before Lincoln's.
Follow-the-sun is a workflow model in which work is passed on to the offices located in different time zones. In this way work is done round-the-clock thereby reducing the project or support duration and increasing the responsiveness.
Another argument that is often offered in support of followership is that people need to work much more closely today to get things done. The world is too complex for one person to sit on high and issue one-way orders to people to get work done. There needs to be two-way dialogue.