Because you don’t share your employer’s politics

Your CEO wants your organization to stand for something.

She’s so passionate about her politics that she thinks of them as the one, true, moral point of view.

She doesn’t even think of them as politics, she thinks of them as the truth.

It never occurs to her that there might be other reasonable points of view.

You don’t agree your CEO’s politics.

You don’t think they’re moral. You don’t think they’re true. You acknowledge that there are other points of view.

It doesn’t matter to you that your CEO’s politics differ from your own. You believe that there’s room for a wide range of points of view in the workplace. You believe that political differences shouldn’t prevent people from working together.

It does matter to your CEO that your politics differ from hers. She believes that it’s her responsibility to promote her politics within the organization. She believes that people who don’t share her politics are incorrect and immoral. She believes that there’s no place for incorrect, immoral people in her organization.

You keep very quiet about your politics when you’re at work.