The top performers I have worked with will challenge dumb processes, because they can zoom out.

Sometimes these dumb processes are there for a reason and you just have to follow them, no questions asked.

Example: military. They literally get rid of anyone who will question the processes. They might be right to question them, but it does not matter.

"performance" is an undefined vague attribute.

Define what they are performing at, and what you say becomes true, but then who is a high performer changes with every task.

For example, consider the police stations with maximum allowable IQs to be hired. The people in charge of the stations noticed that people with a high IQ were low performers, at that job. NASA meanwhile has no such cutoff.

This was the single worst thing about working at Google. Every PhD thinks they're smarter than having to do the actual work. Sometimes you just have to do the fucking work.