# Open Secrets & Half-Baked Ideas

*Tom Geraghty · Voice & Silence, Interpersonal Practice*

Examines open secrets — things everyone knows but no one says — as a distinct PS phenomenon. Shows how even when individual psychological safety is moderate, collective silence about shared knowledge produces the same organisational blindness as individual silence.

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