January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 49m
English
Culture for Nurturing Intrapreneurs
Have you ever led a meeting in which, after speaking for 45 minutes, you invited your team to suggest ideas? You waited. There was complete silence in the room. For a minute, no one said anything. People avoided eye contact with each other and tried their best not to make a sound. After slightly more than a minute, you could not bear it anymore and ended the meeting. People were relieved and left.
In her book The Fearless Organization, Amy C. Edmondson discusses employees who fail to speak up due to fear.1 She referred to that as the dangerous silence. Dangerous silence is often observed in large organizations when employees are not willing to tell truths, offer suggestions, or give an opinion.