Our engineering team has a brilliant architect who everyone respects but who shuts down in meetings when there's conflict and we've all learned to work around his silence instead of addressing it and now we make worse technical decisions because we're protecting his feelings.
More people experience this than they realize.
Your team tiptoes around a talented coworker's silence, and it's leading you all to worse decisions.
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