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For courage to be a system outcome—what can be called collective courage—leadership systems must be designed to elevate and enable courageous performance within the leadership team. How the room is designed matters more than who is in the room. Most organizations unintentionally design leadership systems that slow courage down through structure rather than intent. The result is predictable: decisions drift upward disagreement gets softened accountability becomes unclear

If courage breaks inside leadership teams because of system conditions, then improving leadership performance is not primarily a matter of developing more individual bravery. It becomes a matter of redesigning the conditions under which courage either emerges or disappears. This reframes the problem entirely. From Heroic Courage to Collective Courage Traditional leadership thinking is built on heroic courage. One leader makes the hard call.One leader takes the risk.On