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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.