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Organisations focus too much on their top-performing employees, which can overload them with work while robbing teammates of an opportunity to shine, a performance specialist says.

Culture Amp senior people scientist Kristina Dorniak-Wall says it's easy to fall into the trap of focusing on one or two employees as if they'll always be the top performers in a team, forgetting that performance isn't innate and does fluctuate.

Her company's recent research shows that only 2% of employees sustain high performance over consecutive evaluation cycles...