Leadership that inspires starts with coherence

We often talk about leadership as communication, motivation, or decision-making. And yes, leadership involves all of that. But before any of it, leadership is example. Because teams rarely learn standards from what leaders say. They learn them from what leaders tolerate, repeat, reinforce, and embody. The gap between speech and example One of the fastest ways to weaken a team is to create a gap between what is expected and what is practiced. A leader asks for communication, but does not communicate clearly. A leader asks for documentation, but leaves decisions undocumented. A leader asks for discipline, but treats process as optional when it becomes inconvenient. This is where trust starts to erode. Not because people reject standards. But because they notice when standards only apply downward. Culture is shaped by repetition In many teams, process failures are treated as isolated behavior. A missing handoff. A silent deployment. An undocumented change. A decision shared too late. But