Mike, Thanks for sharing these concepts. I've been studying leadership concepts for a couple of years. I just recently felt the calling to begin sharing them specifically as they relate to leadership development for younger guys. To that end, I've launched a blog. The past few months have been a blur of trying to learn and digest information relative to online learning, and so the continuing trends you mentioned are pretty familiar for me.  However, the emerging trends you outlined are fascinating to me.

I think those emerging trends are also encouraging, though, because they all point to an increase in personal drive and responsibility relative to leadership. A leadership development becomes more relational (the guy mentioned earlier the importance of mentoring) and individually driven, it will naturally become more solid and sustainable. Someone mentioned the organic nature of this emerging trend, and I believe that is what will make leadership development in the future healthier and more infectious.