Most professionals assume growth comes from experience.

More projects. More responsibility. More exposure.

But experience alone doesn’t compound performance.

In this episode of The Career Edge, Leslie Ferry introduces the Performance Loop, the mechanism that drives real, sustained growth:

Intelligence × Reflection × Adjustment = Growth

When one element drops out, growth stalls — even for smart, hardworking professionals.

You’ll learn:

• • Why intelligence alone eventually stops compounding
  • The difference between experience and deliberate refinement
  • What real reflection actually looks like (it’s not replaying the story)
  • Why adjustment, not effort, is the growth multiplier
  • How the Performance Loop applies to both individual contributors and managers

Why managers need the loop even more as responsibility scales

This episode reframes continuous learning as structured refinement, not information consumption.

Because growth doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from running the loop.

Key Insight

The Performance Loop doesn’t change as you grow.

What changes is what you evaluate inside it.

Early in your career, you’re refining how you create impact.
As a manager, you’re refining how performance moves through others.

Same loop. Bigger surface area.

Reflection Question

Are you deliberately running a performance loop or relying on experience alone?

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