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THE PERFORMANCE TRIANGLE

Diagnostic Mentoring to Manage Organizations and People for Superior Performance in Turbulent Times

The Performance Triangle

Seeing performance as a systemic condition


Why this book exists

This book was written to expand how organizations understand performance.

It challenges the reduction of performance to metrics and targets.

The book invites reflection on the systemic conditions that make performance possible.

What this book helps you see

  • Why performance declines despite incentives
  • How tension between goals, capabilities, and trust emerges
  • Where measurement replaces understanding

How this book is used today

Provides shared language for interpreting performance patterns in Organization Twins.


Author context

The Performance Triangle draws on research into performance, capability development, and organizational trust.

It reflects repeated findings that performance declines when measurement replaces understanding.

The book integrates systemic performance thinking with management and leadership practice.


Further reflections & related material

Related reflections emerging from this work:

  • Notes on performance as a systemic condition
  • Conversations on metrics, trust, and capability
  • Research on the foundations of performance
  • Practice reflections interpreting performance patterns in Organization Twins

Status

Published: Lukas Michel, LID Publishing, London, 2013, ISBN: 978-1907794414

Part of the Clarity Before Change body of work