HIGH-PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATIONS

High-Performance Organizations



High-Performance Organizations

Introduction

Many organizations face common challenges when it comes to achieving quality and high levels of performance. Organizations of all kinds— business, governmental, health care, and educational—create products or services to meet particular sets of consumer needs. To the extent that an organization achieves success and stability, the structures, systems, policies, work practices, and leadership styles that are associated with those accomplishments become accepted and standardized over time. In the short run, these patterns are often a prescription for continued success and vitality. However, in the longer term, these same patterns can lead to rigidity, ...