You want to know whether your personal “high performance” habits are making you more robust or more brittle. Which sign should worry you the most?

Correct answer: B

Food for thought for executives

• If you disappeared for two weeks tomorrow, would your area keep running — or reveal that your “performance” is actually personal heroics?
• What buffers do you protect (time, skills, suppliers, decision rights) that look inefficient — but prevent collapse under stress?
• In the next shock, will you try to control everything… or will you know what to simplify, what to drop, and what to safeguard first?

Food for thought for L&D/Exec Dev

• Does your curriculum reward leaders for removing “slack” — or for designing buffers, redundancy, and the ability to operate in degraded mode?
• Are you teaching crisis management as a binder of protocols, or as trained improvisation with clear essentials and decision thresholds?