The quiet one
Everyone nods in the meeting. Something else happens outside it.
Nobody says what they actually think, because the objection costs more than the silence. Anyone who admits during a restructure that they think a decision is wrong is betting their position in a pecking order that is being rewritten while they speak. Anyone who admits they don't know how to get their team through the next quarter has made themselves a target.
That is not cowardice. That is an accurate read of the risk.
And from where you sit, it feels like harmony. Until the day you find out that three people in the room have been thinking something else for months.

