The most expensive person in your company is the one nobody listens to.

Every organisation has a Cassandra. Not the loudest voice in the room, but often the quietest. The analyst flagging churn data nobody wanted to see. The Head of People who named the cultural fracture in three consecutive board meetings and was thanked each time for raising it. They are not difficult or wrong. They are simply ahead of the room. And in a scale-up, that gap between being right and being heard can be existential.