Concept
Permission
What the room teaches after someone leads without being the usual name—whether stepping in, being credited, and stepping back are safe in practice. Permission is settled through repeated example before anyone tests it formally; it accumulates in the same vibrant or decaying habits circulation describes.
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Circulation
Circulation is transmission and reproduction through systems: how norms, habits, and design choices move, repeat, and amplify—what spreads without being re-owned locally, and what keeps learning alive as coordination widens.
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Leadership Reproduces Itself
A group has settled on visible leadership habits—what gets rewarded, what gets punished, what gets ignored. People read those habits as personal style and as the local picture of “how things work here.” That picture travels. - Copying is faster than being taught step by step - People credit what they can see, not hidden setup - New members learn from example before they learn from rules - What gets rewarded and repeated is what gets copied People copy leadership habits and norms. That shapes how the next round of leaders forms. "Watch what gets praised in public—that's what people will imitate. Leadership reproduces itself through what last looked…
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When Others Look to You