Trading Machine View for Organism View reveals a very different landscape. An Organism View of economy is a view of a vast and complex interconnected ecosystem, replete with all of the self-organization, diversity, emergence, and self-regulation that you can find in your own body.  An Organism View leads to a distributed view of management and leadership – an approach that involves every cell, every person.

Deming’s “system optimization” and “profound knowledge” theories take on powerful new meaning in Organism View. Trading Machine View for Organism View reveals previously hidden opportunities to transform individual and organizational performance—for free.  Authentic new possibilities for true joy in work and personal fulfillment begin to unfold. When you make this trade, you now see, for the first time, unprecedented and breathtaking opportunities that were not there before.

The patterns of Superperforming CEOs like George Martinez and the patterns of their companies lead us to the inescapable conclusion that the very best management science is not a management science alone, but a leadership-management science together. It turns out that superperforming leadership and management come as a matched set. You cannot enjoy one without the other.

Deming’s wise and prophetic words ring true: “To manage, one must lead.”

Superperformance science is a whole brain science for organizations, projects, and individuals. In this paradigm the major province of leadership is people (release of their passion,) while the main work of management is process (control of its flow.)  When these two hemispheres, operating as distributed properties, become one, Superperformance will  follow “like the shadow follows the hand.”  This is how the evidence stacks up across the now substantial fabric of Superperforming individuals, teams, projects, and organizations it has been a privilege to examine over the last several decades.

Time and time again, Superperformance unfailingly springs from the interaction of the two super-partners: process and culture.

It is elegant simplicity