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    Research Report 01

    Prevalence across twenty recurring leadership moments in an archive of 11,359 real cases.

    v0.2 · September 2026

    Key finding

    Giving open & honest feedback appears most often in the current draft prevalence table: 32.6% of 11,359 cases.

    Figures.

    Figure 1 · Report 01 draft · September 2026

    real leadership cases

    11,359

    a two-decade archive · Source
    Figure 2 · Report 01 draft · September 2026

    Giving open & honest feedback is the most common moment

    32.6%

    of 11,359 real cases · Source
    Figure 3 · Report 01 draft · September 2026

    Cross-functional collaboration

    30.7%

    of 11,359 real cases · Source
    Figure 4 · Report 01 draft · September 2026

    Coaching not solving

    27%

    of 11,359 real cases · Source
    Figure 5 · Report 01 draft · September 2026

    cases involve building systems of accountability, named as the problem in only 19%

    2,730

    of 11,359 real cases · Source
    Figure 6 · Report 01 draft · September 2026

    cases involve proactive psychological safety creation, named as the problem in only 11%

    1,698

    of 11,359 real cases · Source
    Figure 7 · Report 01 draft · September 2026

    moments contain the softened or withheld message

    17 of 20

    across the 20 moments · Source

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