The Overnight Flight.

I had taken an overnight flight to make a morning meeting and slept perhaps two hours. I went straight from the airport into a room full of people who needed a decision from me.

A member of the team raised a concern about the plan. It was a fair concern. I cut him off. The room went quiet in the way rooms do when the leader has just made it unsafe to speak.

That evening in the hotel, I replayed the day. He was right. I had dismissed it because I was too tired to hold one more variable in my head.

The cost was not my fatigue. It was the information I lost when a capable person decided it was not worth speaking up again.