Leadership behavior change

You asked your leaders to model the new behavior. They didn't. Why?

You asked your leaders to model the new behaviour. They didn't. The usual diagnosis is that they don't care, or they don't get it, or they're protecting the old way. Sometimes that's true. More often, leaders face the same capability, opportunity, and motivation barriers as anyone else in the system — plus a visibility tax: their behaviour is watched, so the cost of getting it wrong in public is higher. The pages here are about leadership behaviour as a behaviour problem, not a willpower problem. What does it actually take for a leader to model the change credibly? Which capabilities, which opportunities, which motivations? And what does the system have to look like for leader behaviour to feel safe enough to ship?