---
id: "quote-suppression-of-solutions"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["¶4"]
tags: ["core-thesis"]
related: ["concept-suppression-of-solutions"]
speaker: "Eric Anicich and Jeslyn Brouwers"
speakers: ["Eric Anicich", "Jeslyn Brouwers"]
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-cl-76-employees-not-transparent-ai-usage"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/why-employees-arent-transparent-about-their-ai-usage"
sourceTitle: "Why Employees Aren’t Transparent About Their AI Usage"
---
# Suppression of Solutions vs. Problems

> "The research on organizational silence—why employees withhold information, concerns, and ideas—is well established. But that work has largely focused on the suppression of problems: bad news, ethical concerns, operational risks. What AI introduces is the suppression of solutions."
> — [[entity-eric-anicich|Eric Anicich]] and [[entity-jeslyn-brouwers|Jeslyn Brouwers]]

**Why it matters:** This is the single-sentence statement of the vault's central reframe — see [[concept-suppression-of-solutions]]. It marks the pivot from decades of 'why employees hide bad news' research to the new AI-era problem of employees hiding their *successes*.