Why do the most capable leaders stay quiet in meetings? An essay on withheld voice, permission, and the real cost of not saying what you know.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not appear in performance reviews. The person who carries it delivers results, they hold difficult rooms, they are the one people describe as effective, composed, reliable. From the outside nothing is wrong. From the inside, they are running at a cost that no one around them is aware of.