Three Laws of Performance: Free Book!
March 23, 2009 by Phil Gerbyshak
Filed under Business
This week’s free book giveaway is Three Laws of Performance by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan. The cover says it’s a “Warren Bennis book” and as Warren Bennis is one of the best management and leadership authors of all-time, I thought I better take a chance on this book for you!
Image courtesy of Three Laws Visualized
I thought it was especially cool that the authors of the book used a Wordle to show what the key ideas were in the book, just like I’ve mentioned using Wordle to visualize your words.
The premise of the book is simple: There are three laws that will always affect performance of a person or an organization – just like any of Newton’s laws 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
I have 1 copy to give away to 1 random US reader, who answers this question:
What is one management or leadership law at your organization, and how is it working for you or your organization as a whole?
If you don’t want to wait to see if you’re lucky, you can buy a copy of Three Laws of Leadership at Amazon, or you can learn more about the ideas in this book by reading Steve & Dave’s Three Laws of Performance blog. Contest ends on March 27, 2009, with the winner announced March 29, 2009, done by a random number selected from http://random.org
The one management law here is “When in doubt, run to the CEO.” I think it does what the CEO intends, which is to keep him “in the loop.” Unfortunately it has the major unintended consequence of destroying any sense of team and rewarding childish behavior.
Become a Master of Change
The Transformation Initiative is asking all team leaders to support the change, communicate it to the team members, and be the master of change when this initiative starts rolling. Many team leaders are for it; many are against it. Change has been in the business world for many years.
A great law from a Project Team I am currently working with:
“Open Exchange of Ideas and Knowledge” defined as:
1. Although we each have primary responsibilities, we collectively own the success of the implementation.
2. We expect everyone to share their ideas and opinions, in a collegial and respectful way, so that we can look at problems from different perspectives and zero-in on the best solution.
3. We have numerous experienced, talented people on this project and we expect to benefit from their knowledge.
4. We also recognize that there are often multiple ways to solve a given problem and expect those who “own” challenges to solicit input from teammates and evaluate pros and cons before settling on the solution.
Phil!!!!!!!
Just read this book and picked it up at audible.com to listen to. This is the kind of book that I had a difficult time putting down and am re-reading it.
Powerful!!!!
I have also gone through Landmark Forum…
Master your future before someone else does!
Thanks for the Wordle reference. This is a brilliant tool. I’m always looking for better ways to express myself!
WOLD YOU MIND SHARING ME THE EBOOK LINK. I WANT TO READ IT