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P ART IV

IMPLEMENTING THE

PERFORMANCE

LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK

Performance leadership aims to achieve results through all stake-
holders (within and outside the organization) by bridging the differ-
ent and sometimes conflicting objectives of the various stakeholders
and building a common purpose. The performance leadership
framework shows the dilemma between the outside-in approach of
the social dimension (what the external world wants from us) and
the inside-out approach of the values dimension (what our com-
pany stands for and is good at). These dimensions may pose con-
flicting requirements. A good mission statement reconciles that
dilemma by taking a stakeholder approach. Part IV focuses on how
to implement the performance leadership framework in a practical
way by creating a performance network.
Performance networks take performance management to the
next level. Horizontal alignment is important across the complete
value chain, not just within the organization. And performance
management should not be used only to drive personal behaviors
within the organization, but to drive how the entire organization
behaves across the complete performance network. It’s the mission
of a performance leader to optimize the results of all stakeholders,
not just the leader’s own performance.