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Silences that Shape Organisations: How Unspoken Truths Influence Culture, Trust, and Decision-Making

by Richard Barrett
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781291838169
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com
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  • Pages: 222
  • Original Price: GBP 18.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 268 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Leadership

Most organisations are shaped as much by what remains unspoken as by what is said. Over time, certain truths learn not to surface. Questions are softened, postponed, or avoided altogether. Experiences are carried privately rather than shared openly. What begins as discretion slowly becomes habit. What begins as care turns into silence. These silences are rarely deliberate. They are adaptive responses to power, risk, and uncertainty. Leaders learn what cannot be admitted without undermining authority. HR professionals learn which truths create exposure without remedy. Organisations learn which conversations threaten stability, momentum, or cohesion. Silence, in this sense, is not neutral. It is an organising force. The Silences that Shape Organisations explores thirty of the most influential silences that quietly shape leadership, culture, and decision-making. Drawing on developmental psychology and lived organisational experience, Richard Barrett examines silence not as failure or avoidance, but as a form of unintegrated intelligence - experience that could not be fully acknowledged at the time it arose. The book is structured in three sections: - what leaders don't talk about - what HR keeps quiet about - what organisations don't discuss It does not offer tools, techniques, or quick solutions. Instead, it invites a different kind of attention - one that recognises how silence creates shadow, how shadow contributes to cultural entropy, and how trust begins to return when unspoken realities are no longer organising behaviour from beneath awareness.

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