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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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The power of having fun at work.

Kipp By Kipp
February 5, 2026

Fun sets the tone that things aren’t that serious and that we don’t need to take ourselves so seriously either. One of my favorite teams I ever worked with had this dialed in. We laughed a lot. Desks would mysteriously disappear into bathrooms. They’d give me a random word I had to sneak into all-hands

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