Everything We Left Unsaid

Essays on the second organization, the one made of silence.

The most expensive thing in any company is not on the balance sheet. It is the sum of all the sentences that were true, and necessary, and never said out loud.

Beneath every org chart is a second one, made entirely of what people are not saying — held back here by fear, there by politics, elsewhere by the sense that speaking up is not worth the trouble. A meditation on the truths that travel only as far as people feel safe to carry them.

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