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Sustaining high performance: dynamic balancing in an otherwise unbalanced system.

¹The Beryl Institute, Bedford, TX, USA.

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|September 6, 2011

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Sustained high performance isn't a permanent state but achieved through dynamic balance and perpetual movement. Organizations embracing active polarities like agility/consistency, collective/individualism, and informative/inquiry can transcend paradox for continuous achievement.

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Area of Science:

Organizational Studies
Management Science
Healthcare Management

Background:

Organizational performance sustainability is often viewed as a static achievement.
However, inherent paradoxes within organizations can impede progress and long-term success.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how organizations achieve and sustain high performance amidst inherent paradoxes.
To explore the role of dynamic balance and continuous movement in organizational sustainability.

Main Methods:

Qualitative study of hospitals across the United States.
Analysis of organizational practices focusing on managing paradoxes through "movements" (active polarities).

Main Results:

Sustained high performance is achieved through perpetual movement and dynamic balance, not stasis.
Organizations successfully transcended paradox by treating concepts like agile/consistency as active polarities.
Hospitals demonstrated significant results in volatile environments by embracing dynamic balancing.

Conclusions:

Organizational sustainability is a dynamic process of continuous movement and balancing, not a fixed state.
Embracing paradoxes as active polarities enables organizations to move beyond impediments and achieve continuous high performance.
Dynamic balancing is key for organizations to thrive in volatile and unbalanced systems.