Mel Abraham argues that team inconsistency isn't a discipline problem but a "performance tax" imposed by hidden constraints. Financial pressure, emotional load, and decision noise drain capacity and decision quality. Name the constraints, measure their cost, and fix them.
You might think a stressed, inconsistent team or stressed, inconsistent version of yourself is a discipline problem. It's not. It's something I call the performance tax. It's the measurable cost your hidden constraints are extracting from your capacity, your courage, and your decision quality. See, every single day, financial pressure, emotional load, decision noise. Those three things are quietly taxing your bandwidth before you ever even notice it. And it's happening. The constraint is invisible. The cost is not. Name it, measure it, solve it. That's the whole game.
