%0 Journal Article %T Practicing leadership %A Brad Jackson %A Brigid Carroll %A Howard Youngs %A Joseph A Raelin %A Stephen Kempster %J Leadership %@ 1742-7169 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/1742715017752422 %X A collective and collaborative response to an article appearing in Leadership¡¯s ¡°Leading Questions¡± department is prepared by a team subscribing to the leadership-as-practice approach. The focus is to represent the manner in which leadership-as-practice operates as a leadership theory and in its communal practice orientation. Among the themes addressed are leadership-as-practice¡¯s theory development, its contribution in comparison to critical leadership theory, its approach to power, and its practicality. Emerging issues in leadership-as-practice theory and application are also reviewed %K Leadership-as-practice %K critical leadership theory %K theory development %K power and control %K practice theory %K ideology %K agency and structure %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1742715017752422