{"product_id":"the-competence-cage-paperback","title":"The Competence Cage (Paperback)","description":"You're not stuck because you're incapable. \r\n\r\n You're stuck because you're too capable. \r\n\r\n You're the one who gets it done. The reliable one. The one everyone turns to when it matters. So why does succeeding at everything feel like it's costing you everything? \r\n\r\n Noni Kokinos had the qualifications, the corporate titles, the reputation as the person who could always be counted on. And still, she felt it before she could name it: needed everywhere, and free nowhere. \r\n\r\n That's the trap competence builds. \r\n\r\n The better you perform, the more indispensable you become. The more indispensable you become, the tighter the cage closes. Nobody warns you that being useful and being free are not the same thing - until you're years into building a successful life, running everything and realising you own too little of it. \r\n\r\n Drawing on her journey from chartered accountant and investment banker to award-winning entrepreneur and multi-site business owner, Noni names the five bars of the cage that keep capable people trapped: performance as protection, usefulness as identity, proximity without power, approval as currency, and under-claiming ownership. \r\n\r\n Her defining instinct is simple: back yourself before certainty arrives, and own what follows. \r\n\r\n She shows you how to begin taking the cage apart. One bar at a time. \r\n\r\n The Competence Cage is not a book about working harder or achieving more. You've already proven you can do that. It's about the one shift competence alone will never hand you: from being indispensable to owning more of your time, your value and your future - and ultimately becoming free. \r\n\r\n Competence got you here. Ownership is what makes you free.","brand":"Noni Kokinos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67970026274994,"sku":"9781067173166","price":290.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781067173166-2.jpg?v=1794317621","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-competence-cage-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}