Leadership and ethics: emergence in everyday social interaction ● Ethics: the emergent structures forming human

We have inherited from modernism, with its emphasis on the autonomous individual, an idealist ethics of universals and the idea that leaders are quite literally “out” of the ordinary. I have argued in this book for a refocusing of our attention on the meaning we are making every day, in every moment in the living present. In this chapter, I would like to look at the question of ethics at this everyday scale and draw attention, in doing so, to the accompanying “everyday” emergence of leadership.