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5/8/2026
Repeat Incidents Are a Leadership Smell

Repeat Incidents Are a Leadership Smell

Short summary

Repeat incidents reveal leadership discipline gaps, not just technical failures. Install runbook discipline, decision traceability, ownership clarity, and pre-release verification—convert incident fixes into system behavior before recurrence costs explode.

  • •Response speed doesn't prevent recurrence; four leadership gaps cause repeat incidents
  • •Runbook discipline and owned prevention actions must happen between releases
  • •Run 20-minute pre-release reviews with hard gates on prevention completion

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