From Energy to Profit: How Quanta Transforms ROE into ROI
At Quanta, we’ve spent 30 years exploring one deceptively simple truth: energy drives everything.
From leaders to organisations, energy is the hidden force behind performance, innovation, and profitability.
Our game-changing insight: Return on Energy (ROE) always precedes Return on Investment (ROI).
Energy is like gravity. Everywhere but invisible. To manage energy we need three essential elements.
A clear definition of energy
A reliable instrument to measure energy
A practical method to generate energy
Metaphorically we need Newton's apple tree. We observe and measure energy in action.
And then we generate energy.
From ROE to ROI – The Vineyard to the Wine
Just as the health of a vineyard determines the quality of its wine, the energy within your organisation determines its profitability.
When we harness leadership energy, align team energy, and manage organisational energy, the outcome is inevitable: greater customer satisfaction and sustainable growth and profitability.
Quanta’s Energy Model
Here’s how the energy journey flows.
The organisation is like a hot air balloon. Inject energy and it rises. This is the primary role of every leader in every organisation. To be an injector of new energy.
The quality of wine is determined by the quality and management of the vineyard.
Leadership Energy sparks direction and momentum.
Organisation Energy converts individual potential into collective capability.
Customer Satisfaction & Profitability are the natural outcomes.
This isn’t theory — it’s been tested, measured, and applied in practice across multiple industries.
Quanta’s Integrated Energy Language
We’ve gone further — by defining energy in a new language with new game changing grammar.
Solving the Tower of Babel Problem
When language fragments, power fragments. Confusion replaces clarity, and the tower collapses.
The Organisational Parallel
Without this one energy language, Strategists speak “direction,” Implementers “delivery,” Polishers “detail,” Playmakers “relationships,” and Game Changers “possibility.” Each is right — but together, they can become like the Tower of Babel: fragmented, ineffective, and low on energy.
The Quanta Solution
Our one energy language unifies the system. Raising consciousness, intelligence and creativity.
Energy flows without leakage.
Entropy is channelled productively.
Evolution emerges continuously.
With one language, organisations don’t collapse — they rise.
With one language energy can flow seamlessly from the initial spark of a new energy fractal to potential energy and on to new and profitable kinetic energy.
Wittgenstein Twist: “The limits of our language are the limits of our organisation.”
Energy flows continuously and recursively throughout a system
Quanta's Energy Model states that all performance is a function of system energy.
To validate our one energy language we tested the relationship between Potential and Kinetic Energy in organisations.
Our Hypothesis: The GC Index Team Profile predicts Organisation Energy and ultimately ROI.
The Evidence with the GC Index
We validated our hypothesis with The GC Index®, which measures how people and teams make their best impact.
Our research shows that teams with more balanced team profiles generate higher organisation energy scores than teams with unbalanced profiles.
The correlation between team proclivity balance and organisation energy is a high 0.95.
The slope of the correlation is 1.5 - close to the golden ratio of 1.618, the system's phi point. This point is reached when the Organisation Energy score is 73.5%.
The phi point is where these forces of new energy, entropy and evolution are in dynamic harmony — where leadership creates the maximum lift with the minimum wasted energy.
We now know that team balance drives performance. Any intervention that wishes to increase performance and profitability, must logically now focus on increasing the proclivity balance of the team.
The GC Index Team Profile is effectively harbouring solid gold. An invisible DNA that determines performance. Change this DNA and we can now predict a change in energy and performance.
And our further research tells us exactly how to do this.
Team balance determines measured performance
A Practical Example
The example shown below demonstrates clearly the impact of a balanced and an unbalanced GC Index Team Profile on Organisational Energy and performance.
The bottom line? Balanced teams are more profitable than unbalanced teams.
The GC Index Team Profile is the invisible DNA of performance
The Real Game Changer - The Gateway to Increasing Energy
For three decades we have built our practical consulting expertise on the universal and natural laws relating to the recursive cycle of energy, entropy and evolution.
Our vehicle for this has been the the special simple new action that with disciplined repetition has the capacity to generate new levels of complexity from simple building blocks.
Metaphorically the energy fractal is the simple cell that with repetition becomes multicellular and emerges as wonderful new, unexpected and complex ideas and behaviours. This is a type of behavioural morphogenesis. In plain language the energy fractal generates the magic.
The energy fractal is effectively a new source of energy. The purest form of game changing - what Clayton Christensen named 'disruptive innovation'. Whatever we call it, we know that this is nature's way of driving evolution. Without it, organisations simply shrivel and die.
Confirmation with The GC Index
Our recent research with The GC Index has confirmed our practical work with system energy, energy fractals and game changing.
Only the Game Changer strongly correlates with Organisation Energy.
Other proclivities (Strategist, Implementer, Polisher, Play Maker) help maintain energy but don’t increase it.
Too much focus, for example, on Implementing and Polishing can even drain or destroy system energy. (Common in many established organisations.
The Game Changer is nature's energy valve to emergent complexity
This confirms that game changing is the real and only energy valve for injecting new energy into a system.
Our message is simple: There is only one leadership skill that drives all others. Game Changing.
And this is the key skill that drives all performance and profitability.
At Quanta we know exactly how to transfer this skill to give leaders a real and competitive advantage.
“In the field of human systems, habit is entropy. Disruption is vitality.”
