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Forbes Coaches Council

Leadership Isn’t a Person, It’s a System—Here’s the Architecture

By Maureen Metcalf | Forbes Coaches Council | June 8, 2026

After 25 years advising organizations through leadership transitions, market disruptions, and cultural fractures, Maureen Metcalf makes the case that what looks like leadership failure is almost always a systems failure—and explains the architecture required to fix it.

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