The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life [Hardcover]

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 authorswho have helped hundreds of companies and individuals change and improvesay 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 oncewith 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.

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 lCÊ