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Performance Is Contextual - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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Have you ever worked with someone who was great at their job until suddenly one day, seemingly out of the blue, their performance dropped off a cliff? Or how about someone who’s been really struggling, even to the point of being close to getting fired, and then they somehow turn it around? I certainly have, multiple times. Managers often talk about performance as a static thing. We say that someone is a “high performer” or “low performer”, as if performance is a fixed attribute of their personality. This fixed mindset is a mistake. Performance is contextual: how well you perform your job is deeply dependent on the conditions around you. This is obviously visible in small ways – miss a night of sleep and suddenly the job feels 80% harder – but we tend to view that as a short-term exception and not the application of a broader rule about what impacts job performance. There are all sorts of things that can influence someone’s performance dramatically. Just a few examples: This is by no me

Performance Is Contextual Have you ever worked with someone who was great at their job until suddenly one day, seemingly out of the blue, their performance dropped off a cliff? Or how about someone who's been really struggling, even to the point of being close to getting fired, and then they somehow turn it around? I certainly have, multiple times. Managers often talk about performance as a static thing. We say that someone is a "high performer" or "low performer", as if performance is a fixed attribute of their personality. This fixed mindset is a mistake. Performance is contextual : how well

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