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Ep 214 – When Silence Feels Like Agreement
Meta Description: Silence is often mistaken for alignment. Scott Smith explores how leaders misread quiet as assent and the quiet costs that follow.🎙️ Episode SummarySilence can feel reassuring under pressure.No objections. No resistance. No friction.In this episode, Scott Smith examines one of leadership’s most common misread signals: silence mistaken for agreement. Drawing on Stoic thinking about assent, he shows how absence is often interpreted as alignment — and why that assumption quietly undermines judgment.Silence does not oppose a decision.But it does not confirm it either.Leadership…
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