Superperformance: 8 Strategies to Reach Full Potential for Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization
George Pesansky
Fast Company Press (September 2025)

“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” 

George Pesansky agrees with this assertion by Peter Drucker. In Superformance, he provides the most valuable lessons he has learned about high-impact management that produces “superformance,” a collaboration between those who supervise work and those who complete it.

He seems to be a diehard pragmatist who is determined (obsessed?) to help as many people as possible to achieve bold but doable objectives such as these.Their common preface is HOW TO

o Create and then leverage “The Golden Hour”
o Unlock potential: Yours, others’ (including clients’ and customers’), and your organization’s
o Avoid or escape from the “Prison of Expectations”
o Learn the potential benefits of “We” versus “Me”
o Locate organizational friction, then eliminate or (at least) minimize it
o Make sharp focus your ally and benefactor
o Construct and then sustain an “improvement factory”
o Identify the root causes of personal, team, and organizational success
o Learn a trade or trades and deliberately improve your professional skills
o Help to clarify communication as well as support cooperation and collaboration between and among stakeholders

Frankly, I would welcome the opportunity to work with or for George Pesansky. His mind reminds me of a Swiss Army knife and his hunger to learn and share seems insatiable. Years ago, when it was suggested to Darrell Royal, head coach of the University of Texas football team, that his team had great promise that year, he replied “Potential” means “you ain’t done it yet.”

With all due respect to the information, insights, and counsel provided in this book, they are essentially worthless unless or until adopted and adapted, then applied with passion and rigor. I also suggest that Coach Royal’s comment and an observation by Thomas Edison — “Vision without execution is hallucination.” — be kept clearly in mind.

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Here are two other suggestions while you are reading Superperformance: First, highlight key passages. Also,  perhaps in a notebook kept near-at-hand (e.g. Apica Premium C.D. Notebook A5), record your comments, questions, and action steps (preferably with deadlines). Pay special attention to the Introduction: On the Path to Enlightenment, and, to the “Your Outline for Action” material that concludes each of Chapters 1-11.