PREFACE
HOW DO WE GET GREAT PERFORMANCE?
Does the person of high competence and low character get a pass? Does the person of high character with threshold competence get a chance?
How an organization’s leaders answer those questions reveals how they think great performance can be achieved.
The evidence that we will present in this book is that great performance happens by getting better at “who we are” by practicing virtue to get better at “what we do.” The concept is captured in the book title—better humans, better performance. And how do we get better at who we are? The time-honored solution to this question is that we get better at who we are when we practice the seven classical virtues: trust, compassion, courage, justice, wisdom, temperance, ...
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