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The more reliable you are, the more likely you will be rewarded with more work.

High performers become indispensable to execution yet invisible to leadership opportunities.

Being the go-to person builds trust, but can limit your career growth and influence.

The competency tax is the cost of being so good you can't move to another role.

Every organization has that one person they call when numbers aren’t adding up, stakeholders aren’t happy, morale is low, or a high-stake presentation is about to go sour. Without hesitation, they call for that one person who always saves the day. They fix the spreadsheet, calm tense nerves, boost morale, and quickly rework a slide deck and chime in with an acceptable solution during an otherwise tense presentation.

They are told they are the “glue that keeps everything together” and “we’d be lost without you,” but when promotion season comes around, they get overlooked…again. This person wasn’t punished for poor performance, they........

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