Avoiding the hidden costs of leadership debt
August 12, 2025
Technical debt is well recognised. But the same logic of ever-shifting organisational needs – and therefore the debt accrued by standing still – applies to leadership too. As a leader, your skills, models and culture operate as a system of their own, determining how well your organisation is able to adapt and respond to change.
We tend to think quite a bit these days about technical debt and even the idea of product debt. But here Oli Lovell asks us to consider leadership debt.