The proudest story makes the worst thing unsayable

The topics an organisation can’t discuss cluster around whatever made it successful. The strongest track record buys the largest blind spot. Though sometimes the silence is just the senior person in the chair.

What it says

Every team has one problem nobody will name.

And it’s never the thing we’re worst at.

It grows out of the thing we’re proudest of.

So naming the split would mean doubting the story the whole place rests on, and nobody’s paid to do that.

And that’s the meeting where we notice the head of that famous group is sitting right there.

Maybe it was only fear of him, not reverence for anything.


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