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Stop Punishing Competence With More Work

Your most reliable employee gets the furious client, the broken process, the struggling coworker, and the project nobody else can rescue. Leadership calls that trust. The employee may experience it as a tax on being competent.

Christopher Goostrey explains how the competence tax turns strong performers into overworked bottlenecks, why repeated rescue assignments protect weak accountability, and how invisible support work disappears at performance-review time. He also introduces the FAIR Check, a practical framework for finding hidden work, assigning real ownership, investing in capability…

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