The Silent Barrier

The Silent Barrier 🕊️

Imagine this: A group of high performers tasked to deliver a game-changing project. The stakes are massive, and the timeline is tight-the expectations are sky-high.

On paper, everything is perfect: skills matched the task, and resources were all in place. But days go into weeks, and suddenly progress stalls. Meetings become fruitless, ideas unspoken, and deadlines looming in closer.

It was just one casual coffee break. A team member finally said what everyone else wanted to say:
“I feel like I can’t bring up problems without being judged. It is easier to keep quiet.”

She was not alone:
I have been holding back for too long. I worried that my perspective would not have value.

That one short conversation opened the floodgates. Gradually, bit by bit, the team went from holding back to now sharing freely, supporting and working toward the same result. The project didn’t just succeed; it broke the mold.

But this is the question that persists:
What was holding them up in the first place? And why did everything suddenly get so different after that event?

This might sound somewhat familiar. It’s an incomplete potential, unseen obstacles, and the difference that the latter shift made.

What could have unlocked their success?
Stay tuned for the next post where I’ll share an interesting but not so uncommon interaction between program and customer

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