Leadership: The deliberate design of an organization’s social circuitry – the processes, norms, and routines that enable people to effectively collaborate, leverage their collective ingenuity, and drive high performance. It fosters environments of trust, continuous learning, and distributed problem-solving abilities across teams through simplification and slowification. Effective leadership cultivates a developmental mindset oriented towards constant experimentation and improvement.
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