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title: "Performance Termites: The Silent Destroyers"
url: https://thecoreresults.com/performance-termites-the-silent-destroyers/
description: "How small repeated habits can quietly weaken individual and organizational performance."
published: 2018-06-01
updated: 2018-06-01
---

# Performance Termites: The Silent Destroyers

Published 2018-06-01

Performance field note

1 June 2018 · Performance

Major performance problems often begin as small compromises: a skipped preparation step, an unchallenged assumption or a recurring delay that does not look serious on its own.

## Watch patterns, not only incidents

Focused observations help a manager notice when the same behavior appears across several situations. That pattern is more useful than waiting for a visible failure and then reacting to the outcome.

Early coaching can address the behavior while the correction is still manageable and the employee can connect it to recent work.