Why Silent Indian Meetings Hide Ideas and Truth

Sometimes people have good ideas or notice problems but do not speak during meetings.

They may worry that the boss or coworkers will judge them.

This feeling is called psychological safety.

A safe team lets people ask questions, admit mistakes, and disagree respectfully.

The article compares modern meetings with a silent gathering in the Mahabharata.

In that story, many respected people stayed quiet when Draupadi asked an important question.

The silence helped create terrible consequences.

Leaders can make meetings safer by thanking people who find problems and admitting their own mistakes.

When people feel safer, useful conversations that usually happen outside the meeting can happen inside it.