A person informally absorbs organisational instability, preventing leadership chaos from hitting the team directly. They become the system’s emotional and operational shock absorber.

A leader’s vision accelerates faster than the organisation’s capacity, creating a gap where ambition outpaces the systems needed to support it.

The hidden organisational cost created when someone spends their own clarity to reinterpret, soften or stabilise unclear leadership communication for everyone else.

A system that reacts to how truth is delivered rather than whether the truth is accurate. Substance is sidelined by emotional comfort.

A system that defines “team player” as agreeable and unthreatening, while quietly penalising people who bring precision, urgency or unfiltered clarity.

A leader or team asks for strategic thinking but only wants validation. Input becomes a ritual, not a mechanism for real decision-making.