The Superperforming CEO
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Uncommon Sense for Uncommon Results.
In his latest book, Dave Guerra introduces 15 unconventional strategies for executives who seek to achieve Superperforming levels of organizational performance, stakeholder engagement, and shareholder return on investment. Through a multi-year conversation with Superperforming CEO George Martinez, CEO of Allegiance Bank Texas and former Chairman and CEO of Sterling Bancshares, Guerra elucidates 15 Distinctions for today’s executives that any leader can use to turn organizations into places where systems sing and spirits soar. Replete with both hard-hitting statistics and illustrative anecdotes, Guerra explores the uncommon people, uncommon practices and uncommon paradigms that reveal the fully expressed right brain of a Superperforming CEO. Drawing on new science principles including complementarity, emergence, and increasing returns, Guerra demonstrates why dramatic change is possible and how it can occur. The real-life experiences and the penetrating insight that Martinez offers clearly provide credence, and his enthusiasm for people, processes and performance is contagious.
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Superperformance is an optimization approach that everyone working in organizations needs to understand, because everyone has to go work on the transformation. The One Simple Formula, the 8 Simple Rules and the 10 Habits are components that all formal and informal leaders need to utilize and harness. But the 15 Distinctions are a special calling for Formal Leaders alone— Board Members, CEOs and C-level executives with the highest levels of accountability and responsibility – the people who can institute large-scale change. Because of the nature of their roles they must make the fundamental changes required to take organizational effectiveness and operational performance to breathtaking new levels.
What makes the difference? What is it that makes systems sing and people soar? What keeps some organizations in the winner’s circle year after year? In the Superperforming CEO Dave Guerra explores the uncommon people, practices, and paradigms that make up the fully expressed right brain of the best companies in the world. It is further evidence that the underlying, astonishingly simple patterns of Superperforming companies are universal. It is also a call to action. For executives and organizations, it is a call to a new way of being–one that can achieve and sustain previously unimagined new levels of performance. It takes a step beyond what we already know to examine a variety of nontraditional distinctions that combine to paint an unmistakable picture of servant leadership in action.
“This is a great book. Dave Guerra has taken a very complex subject and made it very easy to understand. Most books like this provide examples so the reader can attempt to copy what others have done which doesn’t work. Dave Guerra provides examples AND explains the fundamental reasons why it works and how to apply the theory to any type of organization. Leaders of organizations have a responsibility to read this book!” - John Casey, founder and former Chairman and CEO, CEO Netweavers
“Super Book! Dave Guerra is the guru of Superperformance. He is a wonderful coach who can extract the best from executives and help them to reach levels they did not know they possessed. I recommend reading The Superperforming CEO and then rereading it to grasp the message and put it into action.” – Willy Verbrugghe, CEO, Agritec Systems
“Great book and Great Seminar.The tremendous surge of interest in doing business a different way has been so heartening. It feels as if this new leadership paradigm is approaching critical mass. This is an exciting time to be involved in the emergence of something new and better.” – Barbara Brown, Executive Coach
“In The Superperforming CEO: Liberating the Promise Within, Dave Guerra builds upon the teachings of such oracles as W. Edwards Deming, Robert Greenleaf, and a number of outstanding business leaders of today to educate the reader on the skills and competencies needed to survive and prosper in the new normal environment of the 21st century. Congratulations to Dave for another significant addition to the list of must-reads for today’s Business Leaders.” – John Jordan, Retired Executive, Halliburton
“The Superperforming CEO is an important contribution. Dave Guerra combines enthusiasm and empathy with an astute understanding of what makes businesses work. He is truly a mensch and one of these individuals whom people trust implicitly.” – Peter Haskell, Executive Facilitator, On The Crest Consulting
