[AitchEmArsey]

Depends on your definition of high performer.

If you prize delivering short-term value by chugging through the task pile faster than other people can, then sure this article is not aligned with your ideals.

That is not what I would call high performance; I would much rather be someone who can take a razor/lawnmower to that pile of tasks and do exactly the subset (down to potentially none at all) which delivers the most marginal value for the units of time I think are warranted for the project as a whole - then repeat until the goals are met.

[fuzzfactor]

Sometimes I want to stop and smell the roses, but mostly I want to smell the roses along the way while accomplishing other things too.