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Why high performers pay a competence penalty

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Your calendar is packed, the roadmap keeps growing, and somehow the “best” people are always the most overloaded. We’re not buying the idea that this is just about grit or time management. We dig into a more honest explanation: most workplaces have no structured, objective way to measure cognitive bandwidth, so leaders guess, teams redline, and burnout becomes the default outcome.

We unpack the 100% utilization myth and why planning for 80% workload capacity is not laziness, it’s sound workload architecture. That protected 20% operational buffer is what lets a team absorb a…

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