The Superperforming CEO

by Dave Guerra

Dave Guerra's long-awaited follow-on to the groundbreaking Superperformance emerges. Through the examination of 15 Distinctions, The Superperforming CEO brings into sharp relief the fully expressed right-brain of the Superperforming CEO. The Superperforming CEO is a book for executives, because they are the people who can adopt and steward totally new system optimization methods. This book is designed to be used as a tool to further distinguish Superperformance through the dimensions of people, practices and paradigms. Across that backdrop, Dave Guerra shows that senior executives are a critical organ but can contribute immeasurably more value by leveraging the principles of Superperformance and Servant Leadership. The Superperforming CEO argues that the dismal levels of employee engagement that exist in most companies today represent total waste, and that future success will come from tapping this unlimited and unbelievably fertile source of productivity, innovation, improvement, and high performance. Developed through an ongoing conversation with Superperforming CEO George Martinez, the book pushes further into the science and universality of this condition and further certifies this astonishingly simple super-success strategy for the 21st century. It explains why a new life science of optimization effectively supplants the four-hundred year old Cartesian paradigm and replaces it with a more agile, rewarding, and robust one. The 15 Distinctions of The Superperforming CEO 1. Believing in the Unlimited Potential of People 2: Sharing the Wealth 3: Treating the Community as Stakeholder 4: Making Sure All Stakeholders Win 5: Fulfilling Life's Purpose through Work 6: Taking the Long View of Business 7: Staying in the Sweet Spot 8: Use of Coaching 9: Measuring Things Hardly Measured 10: Open and Honest Communication 11: Tacking 12: Making Responsibility a Choice 13: Context as Lever 14: Distributed Being 15: Continuous Emergence

176 pages

First published October 1, 2009

About the author

Dave is the founder and CEO of Corpus Optima, a coaching, consulting & education firm. He is the originator and leading exponent on the theory and practice of Superperformance. Dave regularly addresses and consults with executives from some of the world's leading companies, and conducts seminars and transformation campaigns based on this knowledge for a wide range of organizations.

Over several decades, Dave has consulted extensively in the areas of servant leadership, continuous improvement, lean, and the use of complexity principles to transform corporate culture. Dave's past and current customers include Administaff, Baker Hughes, Brinks, ConocoPhillips, Emerson Electric, Exxon Mobil, HCA, HP, ITT, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Motorola, Nike, Texas Children's Hospital, Tenet Health, and others. He has partnered with CSC, Dale Carnegie, Deloitte, Oracle, University of Houston, and others. He speaks passionately and frequently about the merger of process and culture and its influence on long-term industry outperformance. As the primary researcher and exponent of this category, he has discovered that Superperforming principles can be successfully applied by organizations, projects, individuals, and communities.

His works include the groundbreaking Superperformance: New Profound Knowledge for Corporate Leaders, The Superperforming CEO: Liberating the Promise Within, and the upcoming Super Projects: From Management to Optimization. He has also authored the feature article, The New Science of Superperformance, for Industrial Management Magazine, published by the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and served as guest editor for a dedicated special issue: Superperformance, for the Journal of Performance Improvement, published by the International Society for Performance Improvement. Along with these, he is responsible for numerous related white papers and professional articles on the subject of Superperformance.

Dave is in high demand as a management and leadership consultant, executive coach, and conference and keynote speaker. Over the past several years he has introduced these ideas to great acclaim on the local, national, and international stage, including many presentations or seminars for ASQ, PMI, APLN, CEO Netweavers, CLO Consortium, Greenleaf, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, International Center for Spirit at Work, ISPI, MIT Enterprise Forum, OD Network, Society for Manufacturing Engineers, SHRM, and many additional professional and executive groups.

He has contributed to or been quoted by a variety of well-known publications including Business Week, Forbes, Industrial Management Magazine, Journal of Performance Improvement, Market Watch, and Performance Magazine."