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

ISBN-13: 9781118043127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str.

Dave Logan

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Editor′s Note, byWarren Bennis xiii

Foreword, by Michael C. Jensen xvii

Authors′ Note xxi

Introduction: The Power of Rewriting the Future xxv

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 That’s 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 orWhat 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 212

Notes 213

Acknowledgments 215

The Authors 219

Index 221

O autorze

Steve Zaffron ist CEO der Vanto Group, einem Beratungsunternehmen aus San Francisco, das sich auf die Entwicklung und Umsetzung großer Projekte zur betrieblichen Leistungssteigerung spezialisiert hat. Zu den Kunden der Vanto Group zählen mehr als 300 Betriebe aus 20 Ländern, darunter Apple, Johnson & Johnson und Reebok. Als erfahrener, international tätiger Berater hat Zaffron eng mit zahlreichen Topmanagern zusammengearbeitet und Projekte für über hunderttausend Mitarbeiter weltweit geleitet. Zaffron lehrt unter anderem an der Harvard Business School und der Marshall School of Business an der University of Southern California. Außerdem ist Steve Zaffron als Senior Executive und Mitglied des Verwaltungsrats von Landmark Education tätig, wo er maßgeblich an der Entwicklung des Landmark Forums beteiligt war, einem Seminarprogramm, an dem bislang über eine Million Menschen weltweit teilgenommen haben.Dave Logan lehrt an der Marshall School of Business der University of Southern California Management und Organisation für angehende Betriebswirte. Von 2001-04 war er als stellvertretender Dekan für die Fortbildung von Topmanagern und Führungskräften zuständig. In dieser Zeit initiierte er Dutzende von Programmen zur Leistungssteigerung namhafter Betriebe in den Branchen Raumfahrt, Immobilien, Finanzdienstleistungen und Gesundheit. Logan ist außerdem einer der Gründer und Senior Partner von CultureSync, einem Managementberatungsunternehmen, das sich auf kulturellen Wandel und Strategie spezialisiert hat. Zu seinen Kunden zählen unter anderem Intel und American Express.

Blurb

How do companies, both large and small, in different countries and industries, achieve breakthrough performance when the odds are stacked against them? Such results are possible when people apply The Three Laws of Performance and rewrite their futures. This book will show you how to do the same in your organization and your life.

Although most of us aren′t aware of it, we have a future that′s already been written. Our future is written by hopes, fears, dreams, expectations, and decisions made about life. In the same way, organizations have futures written by history, circumstances, culture, aspirations, successes, and failures. These already–written futures determine and shape the level of performance that′s possible for individuals and organizations. In The Three Laws of Performance, Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan crack the code on rewriting the future for people and organizations, elevating performance to unprecedented levels.

"This book is a wonderful reminder that things we don′t see determine what we do see, and therefore, what really gets done. The Three Laws of Performance hits the mark in providing both rich food for thought and techniques that can create profound results."—David Allen, author, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress–Free Productivity; Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work; and the Business of Life

"The Three Laws of Performance is must–reading for leaders who want to make a positive difference. Change doesn′t happen in a vacuum; it happens when people see and hear a future they can get excited about. Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan show how true leaders sidestep negative stumbling blocks to articulate visions that heal and inspire."—Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager and Leading at a Higher Level

"An inspiring, practical book that will assist all who seek to rewrite the future of our world."—Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate