Book description
When a hurricane warning is announced, everyone's concerns and actions become focused on that expectation; the hurricane essentially becomes the future which people are "living into." Similarly, when an organization needs to transform or make the leap to a higher level, everyone involved should be "living into" the vision of the organization's new, improved future. But in the majority of organizations, the future people are living into is based on past performance and experience, and so major transformation is almost impossible.
Steve Zaffron is, CEO of Vanto Group which has helped hundreds of companies envision and effectively implement major change and performance improvement. Zaffron and Dave Logan outline this proven system for rallying all of an organization's employees around a new vision, and more importantly, making it stick. Their focus is on making such transformations permanent and repeatable, providing practical examples from Vanto Group's clients such as Apple, Lockheed Martin, Reebok, BHP-Billiton, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, and many others.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Editor's Note
- Foreword
- Authors' Note
- Introduction: The Power of Rewriting the Future
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I. The Three Laws in Action
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1. Transforming an Impossible Situation
- 1.1. The First Law and the Future
- 1.2. A Surprising Turn of Events
- 1.3. The Need for Something New
- 1.4. Other Impossible Situations
- 1.5. Taking It to the Community
- 1.6. The Night in the Hostel
- 1.7. Using Conversation to Shift Action
- 1.8. Transformation: Beyond Change Management
- 1.9. The Future Rewritten
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2. Where Is the Key to Performance?
- 2.1. Searching for the Key to Performance at the Polus Group
- 2.2. The Knots of Language
- 2.3. The Key to Performance
- 2.4. Learning the Language
- 2.5. Using the Second Law
- 2.6. The Harvard Business School: The Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit
- 2.7. Polus Group's Stage 0
- 2.8. Where Performance Lives
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3. Rewriting a Future That's Already Written
- 3.1. The Power of the Future
- 3.2. The Power of Future-Based Language
- 3.3. The Condition Required for Future-Based Language
- 3.4. Completion: Generative Language That Creates Space
- 3.5. Declaration: The Kind of Language That Creates a Future
- 3.6. Life After Stage 0: Creating a New Future
- 3.7. Principles for Generating New Futures
- 3.8. Building Companies and Lives Around Futures
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1. Transforming an Impossible Situation
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II. Rewriting the Future of Leadership
- 4. With So Many Books on Leadership, Why Are There So Few Leaders?
- 5. The Self-Led Organization
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III. Mastering the Game of Performance
- 6. Who or What Is Leading Your Life?
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7. The Path to Mastery
- 7.1. The X-Factor in Mastery
- 7.2. Why There Are No Steps to Mastery
- 7.3. Milestone 1: Seeing Your "Terministic Screen" in Action
- 7.4. Milestone 2: Building a New Terministic Screen
- 7.5. Milestone 3: You'll See New Opportunities for Elevated Performance Everywhere
- 7.6. Milestone 4: Teaching Others
- 7.7. Materials for the Pathway to Mastery
- 7.8. Experiencing Language at Work
- 7.9. Seeing a Situation Through All Three Laws
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8. Breaking the Performance Barrier
- 8.1. Commitment 1: Get Out of the Stands
- 8.2. Commitment 2: Create a New Game
- 8.3. Commitment 3: Make the Obstacles Conditions of the Game
- 8.4. Commitment 4: Share Your Insights
- 8.5. Commitment 5: Find the Right Coaching
- 8.6. Commitment 6: Start Filing Your Past in Your Past
- 8.7. Commitment 7: Play the Game as If Your Life Depended on It
- A. The Three Laws of Performance and the Leadership Corollaries
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- The Authors
Product information
- Title: The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2009
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9780470195598
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