Some characteristics of performance are structurally detained within our organizations; codified in systems and processes, in artifacts of knowledge and culture. Others are emerging, reacting more dynamically to the context and the circumstances. Some organizations seem to occur in a coherent manner at a higher level than others, and some seem to do so without an undue additional effort. Others can work exceptionally well for short gusts, but they apparently become exhausted. And indeed, some are fundamentally able to access high performance, despite their best efforts.
The notion of ‘High performance“He himself is, of course, contextual. What matters as a high performance on Monday may not be the same as Friday, as circumstances change. If there is a fire and the warehouse is damaged, a very efficient team behaves very differently in the week that followed it that the one who had previous – or at least they do so if they recover well.
The more we look or consider, or consider, the question of high performance, the more likely it is to dissolve in a series of parallel characteristics: there is the technology which underlies or allows, there is formal team structures which are intended to maintain it, there is tribal social structures that can feed it, there is process who codified learning the last time we did, and there are alsotensions“Who can activate or derail it.
I think that in this early stage, I seek to draw a large sketch card: where are the limits of this landscape, where the coasts, the mountains are. Then look for models or themes. It is a very early work.
I think it is easy to work on intuition, delimited by dogma, in this space. I suspect that the more we can explore, the more we can remain uncertain, the more we can find a “truth”, but an understanding of forces, interrelations, connections, which can serve us well.
#Workingoutloud on high performance.
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