The Three Laws of Performance

The Three Laws of Performance provides a list of rules (and stories explaining how they work in practice) that promise to help individuals in leadership roles facilitate the group coherence and cohesion that are necessary to bring about transcendent performance. The book is based on a wealth of experience from decades of applying the ideas it explains. If you're interested in this kind of theory, the book is worth a read. (BrokenSymmetry.typepad.com) I received an email a few weeks ago asking if I would be interested in reviewing the new book from Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan titled the three laws of performance. I jumped at the opportunity.free book right? WellId happily pay twice the list price for this book and so should you. The full title of the book is The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life and it is called a Warren Bennis bookif you like Bennis, youll like this book too. The premise of the book is that there are three laws that will always affect performancejust like the law of gravity will always have an effect on you. The three laws are: How people perform correlates to how situations occur to them How a situation occurs arises in languages Future based language transforms how situations occur to people This is a great bookI think it is one of the best books Ive read in the last few years. Grab this book soon as you can and enjoy! (EricBrown.com) Three Laws is about impossible transformations and how systemic change can remake your life or your organization. (Life Insurance Selling)

Steve Zaffron is the CEO of the Vanto Group, a global consulting firm that designs and implements large-scale initiatives to elevate organizational performance. Zaffron has directed major corporate initiatives with more than three hundred organizations in twenty countries. Dave Logan is on the faculty at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and is a former associate dean. He is also senior partner of CultureSync, a management consulting firm. Logan has written three books, including Tribal Leadership.

Editors Note, by Warren Bennis xvii Foreword, by Michael C. Jensen xxi Authors Note xxv Introduction: The Power of Rewriting the Future xxix Part I: The Three Laws in Action 1. Transforming an Impossible Situation 3 2. Where is the Key to Performance? 31 3. Rewriting a Future Thats Already Written 65 Part II: Rewriting the Future of Leadership 4. With So Many Books on Leadership, Why are There So Few Leaders? 93 5. The Self-Led Organization 117 Part III: Mastering the Game of Performance 6. Who or What is Leading Your Life? 143 7. The Path to Mastery 169 8. Breaking the Performance Barrier 199 Appendix: The Three Laws of Performance and the Leadership Corollaries 207 Notes 209 Acknowledgments 211 The Authors 215 Index 217