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The Trust Deficit: How Leaders Either Drain or Build Leadership Capital

Kipp By Kipp
February 28, 2026

Most leaders don’t wake up intending to create a low-trust culture. But it happens anyway. Not through one major failure, through a long series of small moments:inconsistency, defensiveness, unclear intent, avoidance, control, coaching without relationship.   Over time, leaders lose what I call Leadership Capital, the invisible currency that determines whether people follow you with

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