Most organizations do not fail because the truth was unavailable. They fail because it never became sayable together.
Isaac Newton caught the crux: “Planets do not resent their orbits. Men do.”
That is the problem with treating organizations like engineering systems. In a social system, the fact itself is not enough. People resent what the fact implies about status, competence, loyalty, and identity. So the truth stays private. Everyone knows. Nobody knows that everyone knows.
That is what a Crossing is for. Not catharsis. Not culture theater. A protected threshold where one live explanation can be put on trial publicly without putting a person on the pyre. The point is to turn private recognition into common knowledge before the room solves its anxiety with silence or sacrifice.
If you want a team that can learn fast, stop demanding candor in the abstract. Build the threshold where truth can cross without taking the organization down with it.