Unlike the teams we lead, there is not a systemic power dynamic at play among our friends. Without an institutional influence factor figuring into things, my buddies honored my ho-hum meme with a nonresponse. Honest feedback in the form of crickets. Had they been employees, I am confident that I would have received at least a 50% response rate replete with a variety of encouraging emojis. An evil, hypothetical experiment would be to throw out a loser of a joke and see how your team responds. I think we know what would happen, and that awareness is where our way forward is found.
