Isolating silence can destroy a subordinate’s career without a word

Evidence

Another technique was the silent treatment. “All of a sudden,” a staffer recalls, “you just wouldn’t be called in to sit at the conferences any more. He wouldn’t talk to you if he passed you in the hall. And then, one day, you’d just be gone.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1002

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s running theme of silence as a weapon between people, echoing Apaches deploying silence in ambiguous situations from the soundscape reading.