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Chapter | 4

PERFORMANCE

LEADERSHIP

FRAMEWORK

A friend of my grandmother is a medical doctor, a therapist, and a wise
lady. Whenever I speak with her, we have the most wonderful
discussions: for instance, about personal development. She explained
that in order for people to fully develop their potential they need to mind
four dimensions: the physical dimension (health, to have energy to spend
on the other dimensions); the mental dimension (to intelligently set goals
and know how to achieve them); the emotional and social dimension (to
understand our ties to the environment in which we live); and lastly, the
spiritual dimension (what we stand for in life). Only a full
understanding of these dimensions unlocks a person’s optimal potential.
This prompted me to think about the development and performance of
organizations. What happens if we apply these four dimensions to
performance management? It opened my eyes and gave me a much broader
view and a deeper understanding of everything I had seen so far. Later I
found out the four dimensions were described by Dr. Stephen Covey.

The Organization as a Living Organism

There was a time that organizations were compared with machines. In
the industrial time perhaps this was a fair comparison. Raw materials
went into the factory and products were produced and distributed, very

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