Define: "Performance Punishment" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Weaponize incompetence just enough on non-critical tasks to remain unappealing for random assignments."
The inadvertent assignment of additional responsibilities to high-performing employees due to their proven reliability.
What does "Performance Punishment" actually mean?
"Your reward for doing your job perfectly is doing the jobs of three people who can't do theirs at all."
"We need to ensure we aren't creating performance punishment for our top engineers."
"I finished the firewall migration early, so as performance punishment, I inherited the failing SDWAN deployment."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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