One more note though: there are outliers who can essentially predict everything that the team is going to do, including the flow and outcomes of all meetings even before the idea to do those meetings is brought up. They know who will speak about what and why, even before the speakers know that themselves.

This could end up pretty good in many ways, IF the manager is ready to handle it and the employee does not abuse that.

But there are also not-yet-ready folks, perhaps just not familiar with the particular strain of culture, who just can't process incoming information in the particular format used by the team.

Last time I've been caught in the second type of position, it took me half a year after I've left the place to finish deciphering, processing and accepting what was actually happening there instead of what I thought was happening. Trying to do that on-the-job would deplete you resilience reserves pretty fast.

Note that neither case has anything to do with belief systems, only with personal input/output processing and being able to predict from past expirience. Addressing belief systems directly is a whole different kind of animal.