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The Power of X

Why capability alone does not determine performance.

Most performance models ask how to make people better. The Power of X asks a different question: how much of what they already have is actually arriving?

The Power of X by Paul Burns and Rikki Lear

The central idea

Performance and capability are not the same thing.

P = C × X

Performance — what becomes visible.

Capability — what is currently available.

Expression — how much of it can arrive.

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The question

How much of what is already there is actually arriving—here, now, under these conditions?

The hidden gap

What is visible is only part of the story.

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Possession

What is available

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Conditions

What affects access and expression

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Arrival

What becomes visible

The KX:1 iceberg: behaviour, performance, actions and results above the waterline; deeper drivers beneath it

Inside the book

A route from visible result to better question.

A restrained view of the terrain rather than a chapter-by-chapter account.

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Why performance is not capability

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The hidden gap between possession and arrival

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What sits beneath the waterline

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Why capability moves

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Challenge fit

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Interference

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Systems and teams

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Why diagnosis should come before prescription

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The Seven Moves

The Seven Moves

The equation gives you the picture.
The Seven Moves give you the practice.

Pause. Define. Prove. Compare. Locate. Test. Learn. A disciplined route from visible performance to a better-supported decision.

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