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THE COLOR OF SUPERPERFORMANCE Dave Guerra, Author, “Superperformance”

Global Energy Conference | Houston | 13 October 2015

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Agenda for Today

1. What is Superperformance?

2. A Triple Braid

3. Servant Leadership

4. Six Takeaways: What to Do Now


Who is Corpus Optima?

• Deming Geeks

• Advise in One Area: Superperformance

• Science-Based, Evidence-Driven

• 21st Century Worldview

• “Triple Braided” Advisory • Servant Leadership

• Systems Thinking

• Transformation


Today more than ever, the technological, market, geopolitical, social and economic realities of contemporary life constitute unprecedented levels of stress for individuals and organizations in the Energy Industry.

For more and more of us the environment is increasingly “VUCA”:

• Volatile

• Uncertain

• Complex

• Ambiguous

A VUCA Future

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Charles Darwin 1809-1882

“It is not the strongest of the

species that survives, nor the

most intelligent…

…it is the one most

responsive to change.”

Surviving VUCA

6

Beak of the Finch

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“The less effort, the

faster and more

powerful you will

be.” Bruce Lee

What is True North?


What is Superperformance?


What is Superperformance?

A new management science.

A set of principles and methods for transforming

performance.

A simple way to take any organization, initiative

or function to the next level.

Superperformance

is an optimization

theory.

“New and Simple”



Peak Performance

Zone of

Superperformance

All Others


Systems Knowledge

Variation Psychology

Deming Profound Knowledge

The Superperformance Formula

P C SP


Triple Braid of Superpeformance

Servant Leadership

Systems Thinking

Transformation

• Serve First

• Grow Others

• See the System

• Improve the System

• Revolutionize Improvement

• Unleash Spirit



“To manage, one must lead.”

• W. Edwards Deming

10 Superperformers


Impact of Superperformance

S&P 500 SP FUND

$288K

$1.4MM

20 Year Performance

of $20,000 Invested

in S&P 500 vs. Super

Fund.

Source: Morningstar and Aim

Investments, Superperformance,

2005



Super Traits

• Best in the World

• Long-Term View

• Endless Pursuit of Excellence

• Culture of Engagement

• Optimistic about the Future

• Evergreen Values & Ethics

• Servant Leadership

Who is at the Top?


15 Distinctions

“Liberating the Promise Within”


Superperforming CEOs


The Servant Leadership

Revolution is Here!


Servant Leadership Companies “A Growing CHORUS”

“The hierarchical

leader is out. The

empowering

leader is in.” Bill George, Harvard

Professor, former CEO

Medtronics



“America Deserves a

Servant Leader”

Howard Shultz,

CEO, Starbucks


Does Superperformance

Occur in Oil & Gas?


Superperformance in Oil & Gas

• Release Date Early 2016


10 Finches with Long Beaks


What Does This Mean?

To go from Ordinary to SUPER is to go from Management to Optimization.


Old

New



They Complete Each Other

The New Management

Science is not a

Management Science

alone, but a

Leadership-

Management Science

Together!

Management Leadership


1.“We hire leaders for

every position.

Leadership has nothing

to do with titles.”

2. Colleen Barrett

Southwest Airlines


How Process Occurs


How Culture Occurs


Super Habits

Policies

Processes

Goals

Relationships

Teamwork

Passion


Implications

It Has Become a Long Game

Uncertainty is the New Certainty

We Need a Short and Long-Term Strategy

Management without Leadership Suboptimizes

The New Finch is Optimization


True North: 6 Things to Do Now

1. Adopt the Super View

2. Revolutionize the System

3. Lean In and Lean Out

4. Embrace Servant Leadership

5. Think Coach not Boss

6. Invent the Future

Thank You! Dave Guerra LinkedIn: daveguerra

twitter: @corpusoptima

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