# You Can't Fix a Secret

*Tom Geraghty · Voice & Silence, Interpersonal Practice*

Argues that the most dangerous organisational problems are the ones people have learned it isn't safe to raise. Uses the Dekker epigram and Conklin's 'blame is emotionally important, not operationally important' to show how blame produces the silence that makes problems unfixable.

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