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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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• A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organizations (paper)
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• Silence in Organizations and Psychological Safety: A Literature Review (paper)
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• Barriers to PS
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• You Can't Fix a Secret
• The HiPPO