Covering your mouth while delivering a cutting remark doesn’t make it less cutting.
It just makes you less accountable.
Soccer players figured this out. Shield the mouth, land the jab, deny the evidence. Clean hands. Dirty game.
Sound familiar? The hallway whisper after the meeting. The eye-roll just visible enough. The Slack message carefully worded for plausible deniability.
The shirt isn’t the problem. Tolerance is.
What a leader permits, they promote.
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