By Robbie Mac Iver, Corpus Optima Partner With agile principles and values becoming more widely accepted at the team level, a natural conversation heard in the agile community today is how to move beyond that. How do we grow agile organizations and agile enterprises? What does an agile organization actually look like? Not surprisingly, the […]
Neils Bohr, father of Quantum Mechanics and the Particle-Wave Duality, understood Superperformance. Bohr’s famous family coat of arms includes the Latin inscription; Contraria sunt Complementa, which means “Opposites are Complements.” Well if opposites are complements, then complements must surely be opposites. Therefore it is not the complementarity […]
by Michele Munaretti, Corpus Optima Partner When we begin to think of an organization as a living system, we notice that process and culture operate according to the same principles as our own brains. The left-brain is related to thinking, the right brain to feeling. The left-brain is sequential, linear, logical and analytic; the right-brain […]
by Richard Dillard, Corpus Optima Partner As much as it is a process challenge, making the transformation to Superperformance is about unleashing a revolution in culture. At last count, there are over 400 business management and improvement methods, models, and theories-in-use today. But when it comes to long-term, sustainable performance improvement, al […]
by Carmen Carter, Diversity Optimization, Corpus Optima Out With the Old In the recent past diversity has been targeted at increasing the representation of “different” people in organizations. Organizations have responded to the business case for diversity by independently modifying systems, processes, hiring practices, outreach efforts, and talent a […]
Superperformance is Maximum Fitness II: (From: Alive and Well, by David Wayne, Improvement Science Advisor and Senior Partner, Corpus Optima) Improvement and Problem Solving There is a good deal of confusion in the field between… […]
Superperformance is Maximum Fitness: (From: Alive and Well, by David Wayne, Improvement Science Advisor and Senior Partner, Corpus Optima) LIKE A FINELY TUNED ATHLETE, optimum fitness (superperformance) comes from measurably… […]
The Right Brain Must be Liberated to Satisfy the Promise of Superperformance: (From Corpus Optima’s new White Paper: ”Miracle Cure“) As much as it is a process challenge, making the transformation to Superperformance is about unleashing a revolution in culture. At last… […]
The Best-Kept Secret of Our Business Generation: The pattern of Superperforming CEO is a pattern of Servant Leadership. This may well be the best-kept secret of our business generation. Robert Greenleaf is credited with being the founder of the… […]
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The Coming Revolution in Management: Knowledge and human capital have made a dramatic debut in the millennium economy. Together they signal a critical shift in organizational life to something new and different, especially when it… […]
East and West, Yin and Yang, Lead and Manage: Dave Guerra’s post in response to Chinese Scholar Sheng Zhao query on the Leadership Scholars Network, from the Academy of Management Listserve. Sheng Zhao: “I am curious about emergence of… […]
Control & Liberate: The New Science of Superperformance: Bohr’s particle-wave duality. Faraday’s electromagnetism. Watson & Crick’s DNA molecule. Jung’s thinking-feeling opposites. Prigogine’s dissipative structures. Our own brains, with their left and… […]
Control & Liberate: The New Optimization Science of Superperformance: Bohr’s particle-wave duality. Faraday’s electromagnetism. Watson & Crick’s DNA molecule. Jung’s thinking-feeling opposites. Prigogine’s dissipative structures. Our own brains, with their left and… […]
Trading Machine View for Organism View: 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… […]
Can Anyone get Super?: Yes the evidence is that Superperformance is available to all. But today’s lingering, strictly mechanistic models of management and leadership only take things further in the wrong direction. New… […]