Embrace Silence

In this insightful leadership guide, Pavel Brodsky challenges managers to resist the impulse to fill every conversational void, revealing how strategic silence can break destructive group "dependency" dynamics. By demonstrating that empowering team members to speak, disagree, and make decisions leads to more autonomous and effective teams, the article provides a counterintuitive approach to leadership that transforms passive groups into proactive problem-solvers. Brodsky's strategies offer engineering leaders a practical framework for cultivating a culture of collaborative decision-making and independent thinking.