Superperformance: New Profound Knowledge for Corporate Leaders

by Dave Guerra

In his groundbreaking first book, Dave Guerra proposes a stunningly simple way through today’s complex world of work, introducing us to a new management science, showing how Superperformance springs from the intersection of an organization’s passion and process. Guerra believes that most organizations still cling to the outdated notion that organizations are machines, not organisms. He argues that many of today’s workers, leaders and managers are still prisoners of a paradigm that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. These division of labor, command and control, and a focus on parts over wholes, are becoming further and further estranged from today’s turn-on-a-dime diet of unrelenting change, disaffected workers and increasing complexity. Instead, Guerra proposes a Simple Process x Culture = Superperformance. This book is about the science that supports this rule. It is also about the simple approaches that have enabled companies like Toyota, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, Tiffany & Co. and others to achieve and sustain super results year after year . . . after year. By studying the real Superperformers around the world, Guerra has developed a roadmap any company can follow to achieve this elusive state.

155 pages, Kindle Edition

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."

Reviews

[Eric Standlee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Servant Leadership is the underlying secret to all super performance.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Think you understand business productivity? Not until you read and understand this important contribution to transforming corporate culture.