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The concept went mainstream in the aughts, when The Wall Street Journal's Jared Sandberg coined the phrase "strategic incompetence," as a useful way to "deflect work one doesn't want to do — without ever having to admit it."
Divorce attorneys are noticing a familiar complaint from married women Callie Ahlgrim 2025
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