This article explains why leadership-as-practice development (LAPD) is a preferred leadership development approach in the contemporary digital era. Rather than dwelling on generic leader competencies that may not apply to the setting, learning is brought into “lived” (not simulated)...

In this article, the author introduces the leadership approach known as “leaderful practice,” an alternative to the traditional trait-based approach of individual leadership. Leaderful practice is shown to sustain an ethical infrastructure based on democratic principles. It is democracy not...

This article endeavors to develop an emerging paradigm of leadership for our organizations known as quot;leaderful practice.quot; Leaderful practice constitutes a direct challenge to the conventional view of leadership as quot;being out in front.quot; It is submitted that in the 21st Century...