Part 4: Rethinking of Performance Management

How to optimise performance

Performance optimisation

Adaptive performance management premises on your desire to improve your ability to do your work continually. Your commitment to being the best you can be.

Yet, life is never perfect. You can’t possibly perform perfectly every time. And it’s a fool’s errand to set such pressure on yourself that you could try to do so.

So what’s the answer? Performance optimisation.

Optimising performance is the process of continually trying to improve the conditions under which you do your work and to do the best possible work under those conditions. But optimisation is predicated on the assumption that nothing is perfect, not the conditions, nor the available resources, nor your abilities.

Performance optimisation gleaned from what we learn from Silicon Valley companies. And the move toward lean start-ups championed by author Eric Ries.

There are four key elements to optimisation.

First, performance optimisation is dependent on taking risks. If you don’t push yourself, you’re never going to improve more than incrementally. Taking risks means that you’re accepting the possibility or even the…