The term for someone like Linda, who has a 10x mindset in a 2x organization or industry, is Rate-Buster.29,30 This expression originated in factory work when a pieceworker radically outproduced the established norm leading to extreme opposition by fellow workers who feared the rate-buster’s high productivity may either lead to a reduction in the piece rate or in a higher expectation of required output. No one likes the rate-buster because the rate-buster makes them look bad and establishes a new standard and norm. The rate-buster makes the 2x people around them uncomfortable.
