High performance is often celebrated rhetorically but punished behaviorally, particularly in politically volatile environments where competence destabilizes fragile group dynamics. This article provides an analysis, grounded in organizational psychology, of how a flat leadership structure, collective insecurity, and narrative construction can converge to target a single high‑performing individual. Rather than a story about one insecure …

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