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This one documents sixteen things that didn’t — the mechanism underneath each one, what it cost, and what replaced it. They are the reason the modules say what they say.
Eleven of the sixteen are written up in full — event, mechanism, cost, what replaced it. Five are still being written. Here is one of the eleven.
Feeds Module 20 — Performance Management · ships with The Execution Score
What we saw. A rep with real wins, consistently lumpy. Good month, bad month, good, bad. Activity KPIs looked fine. Opportunity generation looked on track. Quota hit half the time.
Why nobody intervened. You see quota hit every other month, so the rep reads as inconsistent rather than failing. You let them float.
What was actually true. The calls were poor and no value was being driven. Roughly half the pipeline was phantom — opportunities created by buyers trying to get the rep off the phone, or price-shopping a quote to use against their incumbent. So the rep needed two months of generation to fund one month of genuinely converting pipeline.
At 50% phantom pipeline the rep needs exactly two months of building to fund one month of quota — a period-2 oscillation. Build, harvest, build, harvest. The chart is that arithmetic across twelve months.
A rep who hits every other month does not have a consistency problem. They have a pipeline that is half fiction, and the alternation is the arithmetic of that fiction.
Weekly call scoring, and a diagnostic matrix where activity met, opportunity generation on track, call score low is the phantom-pipeline row — the exact cell this rep occupied for a year while looking merely inconsistent.
72% for the year reads as a coachable near-miss, not a failure. So the rep survives twelve months — and costs roughly $200,000 more than an average replacement holding a steady 90%.
Figures are the worked model at an assumed $95,000 monthly quota. The mechanism is what transfers: alternating months are a measurable signature, not a personality trait. Ask what fraction of the pipeline is real, and the period of the oscillation tells you.