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> most managers give their team the benefit of the doubt that they are working at a reasonable but sustainable pace

Close examination shows that this is just a covert way of saying: a manager, tasked with figuring out whether other people are doing their jobs, decides that the best course of action is to not do his.*

> Curious how you would measure whether they are "performing the tasks for their jobs"

What is this, a public referendum? Another way to offload the costs of working out how to make a given business successful onto others? It depends on the business. And it's work that needs to be undertaken (and the associated costs borne) by the business itself.

*(Only time in my life I've ever gone for the gender-specific rather than the neutral "his or her" or "theirs". The phrasing doesn't seem to work as well another way, though.)