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The Excellence Trap: Escaping Performance for Positioning - 010
In this solo episode of Lunch with Leaders, Adaeze Iloeje-Udeogalanya delivers a powerful reflection on a critical career inflection point: the moment when high performance stops leading to advancement and starts feeling like a trap.
She calls this the "Excellence Trap", the paradox where being too indispensable in your current role prevents you from moving up. You become the reliable anchor who absorbs pressure, yet watches others advance.
Adaeze argues that the solution isn't to work harder, but to shift your focus from pure performance (what you do) to strategic positioning (how your value…
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