Book description
A proven system for rallying all of an organizations' employees around a new vision and ideas for making the vision stick
When something at work isn't going smoothly, managers struggle with what part of the problem to tackle first. Do they start with cost reduction? Or should they go for process improvements first? The authors—who have helped hundreds of companies and individuals change and improve—say spend time and money adjusting the systems in which people operate, rather than targeting people and their performance directly. The authors show that it's in fact possible to change everything at once—with a focus on making such transformations permanent and repeatable.
Brand-new Introduction written for the paperback edition
Filled with illustrative examples from Northrup Grumman, BHP-Billiton, Reebok, Harvard Business School, and many others
Two experts in the field show how to make major transformations happen
The book outlines a process for engaging all employees to buy-in to an improved vision of an organization's new and improved future.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Editor’s Note
- Foreword
- Authors’ Note
- Introduction: The Power of Rewriting the Future
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PART I - The Three Laws in Action
- Chapter 1 - Transforming an Impossible Situation
- Chapter 2 - Where Is the Key to Performance?
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Chapter 3 - Rewriting a Future That’s Already Written
- The Power of the Future
- The Power of Future-Based Language
- The Condition Required for Future-Based Language
- Completion: Generative Language That Creates Space
- Declaration: The Kind of Language That Creates a Future
- Life After Stage 0: Creating a New Future
- Principles for Generating New Futures
- Building Companies and Lives Around Futures
- PART II - Rewriting the Future of Leadership
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PART III - Mastering the Game of Performance
- Chapter 6 - Who or What Is Leading Your Life?
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Chapter 7 - The Path to Mastery
- The X-Factor in Mastery
- Why There Are No Steps to Mastery
- Milestone 1: Seeing Your “Terministic Screen” in Action
- Milestone 2: Building a New Terministic Screen
- Milestone 3: You’ll See New Opportunities for Elevated Performance Everywhere
- Milestone 4: Teaching Others
- Materials for the Pathway to Mastery
- Experiencing Language at Work
- Seeing a Situation Through All Three Laws
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Chapter 8 - Breaking the Performance Barrier
- Commitment 1: Get Out of the Stands
- Commitment 2: Create a New Game
- Commitment 3: Make the Obstacles Conditions of the Game
- Commitment 4: Share Your Insights
- Commitment 5: Find the Right Coaching
- Commitment 6: Start Filing Your Past in Your Past
- Commitment 7: Play the Game as If Your Life Depended on It
- Appendix - The Three Laws of Performance and the Leadership Corollaries
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- The Authors
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2011
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9781118043127
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