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 principle-but the polar-complementarity principle that quantum mechanics relies on. This new language, which Bohr predicted would one day become “the common knowledge of schoolchildren,” is the water we swim in, the reality we inhabit, but cannot see from “Flatland.”

But no longer in organizations. We now have the night goggles of living and complex-adaptive systems, a new biophysics of Super, to light the way into our Super Future. Here are 10 polar-complements to try on for super-size. Surf between them with ever decreasing variation and your performance will skyrocket. Living in either pole exclusively is the province of fools and the source of much of the organizational, project, community, and even individual sub-optimization occurring today.

• Process & Culture
• Management & Leadership
• Control & Liberation
• Physical & Spiritual
• Being & Doing
• Empowerment & Responsibility
• Reality & Possibility
• Involvement & Commitment
• Reflection & Execution
• Desire & Action

So jump in and enjoy the waves. Cowabunga.