Why Servant Leadership Works

April 12th, 2010  |  Published in Articles

Servant leadership works because it liberates intrinsic motivation. Because even though the people are the same . ..they have taken on a new state . . .before they were water, now they are ice.

Corpus Optima Senior Partner and Complexity Science Advisor Chris Welsh and I have been discussing this experience of emergence.  Complexity Science provide the night goggles to see the intangible field of culture – especially the physics of transformation.

Nonlinear Interactions. Emergence. Increasing Returns. Self-Organization.

One Tuesday morning’s return to Houston, in The Superperforming CEO Book Tour & Executive Seminar, sponsored by Oracle, Club Corp, Old Live Oak Books, American Prudential Capital, Visible Applause!, and CEO Netweavers, we will explore what it  looks like when an organization’s right brain hemisphere is liberated – creating “organizational “mind wide open” – through 15 distinctions –   unconventional paradigms, patterns and people. They are new and they come straight from the Superperformance frontier. Together we will answer the question, “What does the discovery of  The Superperforming CEO pattern say about what to lead and what to manage?”

Further, this shockingly straightforward and accessible ‘steady state’ (“Superperformance”) is not only a condition available to organizations – it can also be produced in projects, communities, schools, and in many other systems. These exciting implications are nothing short of profound for distributed leaders and managers everywhere. On Tuesday, we will use this new knowledge to provoke personal action. We will add the missing optimization hemisphere and re-invent the concept of executive to include both hemispheres and both tasks. Hence “Tacking” one of the most prominent expressions of this “fluttering at the end of the flag” as David Marsila so poetically describes it.

 

We’re going to explore Superpeformance through the lens of physics and biology together. We’re going to inform the living condition of the organization as we pull back the skin of biology and the lessons from improvement science. (homeostasis, feedback, system flow, interdependence of parts) and we will also apply the physics (self-organization, steady state, phase transition, nonlinear interactions, fractal self-reference, simple rules) of Superperformance  to learn how to repeatedly unleash the Superhero that is available to all of us.

 

 

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Galileo and the New Order

October 26th, 2009  |  Published in Articles

At the launch of The Superperforming CEO Book Tour & Seminar in Houston last week, Superperforming CEO George Martinez,  in “An Uncommon View” and Complexity Guru Chris Welsh in “Escape from Flatland” both shared brilliant illustrations about the experience of a paradigm shift.  Both referred to Superperformance as the discovery of a true advance in contemporary business thinking and optimization practice.

Coincidentally stumbled upon this article which furthers the story of Galileo’s invention of the telescope and its groundbreaking implications.

http://bit.ly/3pZ2mK

In the same way, the view of organization as organism (not machine) supplants the century-old Taylor model and points to the incontrovertible need for a new guiding science for organizations – we need a life science not a machine science – it must be a science of management and leadership together.  The new biophysics of optimization – Superperformance science – weds biology and physics (nonequilibrium thermodynamics) to inform the transformation of flow and the emergence of culture.

The article includes a wonderful quote by physics pioneer Max Plank, “”A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.”

The new optimization science of management & leadership – of complementarity – control  & liberation, will surely become implicit knowledge one day.

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