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The Mute Script
| Program family | Dark program / Old script |
| Key | mute-script |
| Known instances | 7 |
| Status | ACTIVE |
“Speaking up risks my image; silence is free.” It never is — the ideas you swallow get said by someone else, and the meeting learns to plan around you.
- You draft the comment in your head until the agenda moves on.
- Someone says your swallowed idea and gets the credit — again.
- After every meeting you rate what you should have said, never what you did.
The interpersonal risk script is the automatic cost-benefit calculation people run before speaking up: asking a question risks looking ignorant, admitting a mistake risks looking i
The silence spiral is the organizational dynamic Morrison and Milliken describe in which individual silence accumulates into a collective norm: when no one voices concerns, problem
Implicit voice theories are the internalized, taken-for-granted rules people hold about when it is appropriate — or safe — to speak up to authority. Detert and Edmondson found thes
- An obvious idea said out loud beats a brilliant one swallowed.
- I speak in the first ten minutes — after that the fear compounds.
- My job is contribution, not performance review by imaginary judges.
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“My idea is probably obvious”
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