Recent Articles From EvanCarmichael.com http://www.evancarmichael.com/ http://www.evancarmichael.com/Leadership/1992/Making-Leadership-Actionable-What-We-Are-Learning-and-How-We-Can-Use-It.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Leadership/1992/Making-Leadership-Actionable-What-We-Are-Learning-and-How-We-Can-Use-It.html Much of the popular and academic literature on leadership has led to advice about what is required for effective leadership. This advice is usually flawed in that it does not provide guidance for how to learn to effectively apply the advice or because the advice is based on the practices of an individual in a specific context, a context that may or may not apply to the learner’s situation. An approach to leadership development based on seeing leadership as an emergent phenomenon, rather than just something that an individual does, is suggested.