Over the last several episodes, we’ve explored the Performance Loop:

Intelligence × Reflection × Adjustment = Growth

Intelligence expands what you understand.
Reflection analyzes how your work actually played out.

But reflection alone doesn’t change performance.

Growth happens when reflection turns into deliberate experimentation.

In this episode of The Career Edge, Leslie Ferry explores the adjustment step.

Adjustment isn’t reinvention.
It isn’t trying harder.
And it isn’t a personality change.

Adjustment is variable testing.

You’ll hear:

• Why reflection without action becomes rumination
• What “variable testing” actually looks like for individual contributors
• How managers adjust systems — not just behavior
• Why overcorrection breaks the loop
• A simple 3-question framework to structure deliberate adjustment

Small shifts, tested consistently, are what compound growth over time.