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

Editor’s Note, by Warren 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 or What Is Leading Your Life? 143

7. The Path to Mastery 169

8. Breaking the Performance Barrier 199

Epilogue to the Paperback Edition 206

Appendix: The Three Laws of Performance and the Leadership Corollaries 212

Notes 213

Acknowledgments 215

The Authors 219

Index 221