<ul><li>Tech debt is often viewed as poorly written code or legacy systems, but the real debt starts even before code is written, in the form of leadership, integrity, and hypothesis debt.</li><li>Leaders often allocate time for tech debt cleanup but end up prioritizing feature demands, leading to symbolic rather than real debt repayment and increased fragility.</li><li>Invisible debt is a system problem present in all industries where trust is compromised for urgency, and it leads to failures stemming from accumulated unvalidated assumptions.</li><li>True leadership involves building systems with trust, resilience, and integrity at their core, questioning the necessity of building before speed, and designing systems that rarely fail.</li></ul>

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