🧩 Thematic Introduction
I still remember when incompetence was treated as a personal flaw.
Companies fired individuals, hired consultants, and launched workshops to “develop leaders.”
No one wanted to see that leadership failure wasn’t a mistake — it was a structure.
The system rewarded conformity, not cognition; loyalty, not lucidity.
Those who questioned were labelled “difficult.”
Those who obeyed were promoted.
By 2025, the crisis was undeniable.
Research, data, employee surveys — all pointed to the same conclusion:
leadership dysfunction wasn’t exceptional; it was statistical.
This document — a Noetic Trace from that year — captured the first sober articulation of what organizations refused to admit:
that the incompetence of leaders was not the shadow of the system, but its mirror.*
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