- ISBN13: 9780470195598
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When a hurricane warning is announced, everyone’s concerns and actions become focused on that expectation; the hurricane essentially becomes the future which people are “living into.” Similarly, when an organization needs to transform or make the leap to a higher level, everyone involved should be “living into” the vision of the organization’s new, improved future. But in the majority of organizations, the future people are living into is based on past performance a… More >>
The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
If I’d know this book was written by Landmark Education people I wouldn’t have bought it. Having said that its full of useful info that can be also be discovered in other books, ie many other books. I have a problem with Landmark’s cultish vibe and their relentless drive to recruit new people – thats my issue and I get that, to use a Landmark term.
Rating: 2 / 5
If you want a business book that talks in vague generalities then throws in some prescriptive solutions that you should already know, then this book is for you. Most of the book talks in circles around the vague three laws of performance. While some of the real life examples the book provides make sense, this seems more like a self-help book for the stagnant business person, as it mostly provides what should otherwise be commonsense to most.
Rating: 1 / 5
An alternative review title would be: Philosophical, idealistic, inspirational, socialist but not pragmatic. Obviously I had picked another. I do admire the authors for their pitching of those three laws which I truly believe are great for mankind. However, only a handful of gigantic corps can practise so as South West Airways with its famous “Shared vision/goals/knowledge and highly transparent culture”. May be Toyota is another example. Sorry that I cant recall a third one at the moment. Even the authors in pg131-3 admitted, “One of the flaws of management in this day and age is that we fragment accountabilities and then everyone focuses on their own piece.” People often see their role as making proposals and leaving the decision making and implementation to others. Often executives see their jobs as makng the hard decisions. Both sides get frustrated that the other isnt doing enough…We need to have working teams and networks thinking broader. Such networks dont care about who is in charge, and they move seamlessly from proposals to implementation….Perhaps the biggest limitation of businesses is that thier network of converations is managed from the notion Only involve the people that we need to involve or Keep the barbarians outside the gates…..Why doesnt this happen internally in the course of business? The answer is brutally simple. It threatens management.” Pardon me for writing too much about my frustration with the real world (in particular amidst the current financial tsunami). To facilitate change, we really need “heroes” at the top. No matter what, if you really want to read a good book, you will be satisfied. However, if you want to read a book that can change the world (influenced by the many endorsements) or others (not yourself, I bet), please give this a pass.
p.s. Below please find some of my favorite passages for your reference.
The Three Laws/Leadership Corrollaries are: 1) How people perform correlates to how situations occur to them/Leaders have a say, and give others a say, in how situation occurs. 2) How a situation occurs arises in language/Leaders master the conversational environment. 3) Future based language transforms how situations occur to people/Leaders listen for the future of their organisation.
People live into the future they see coming at them, not the actual future they’ll get to someday. Unless people have done something radical to alter their course, the future they are living into is their default future. pg70
Futures exist inthe moment of speaking (by the true leaders). pg87
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy pg143
Rating: 3 / 5
having recently completed the Landmark Education, which created a whole new world for me, i found this book a great revision companion. For first timers it should spark an enthusiasic jolt toward a fulfiling and self-expressed future. Buy it and transform!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
I pre-ordered this book at the Landmark Education reinvention in NYC back in October. When it arrived, I had forgotten about it. I was so excited to finally have the seemingly mysterious workings of landmark education down on paper from their own viewpoint. I was not sure how they were going to be fitting it all into such a small book.
I was not disappointed. The three laws really allow one to get into the “why’s” of people’s behavior and has vivid and clear examples of it working in their experience through the Vanto Group.
Unless someone feels heard and understood and “gotten”, they are generally going to be unwilling and unable to act in a different manner than they had previously, effectively sabotaging the success of an entire organization.
I am very moved by the focus on language and how it is tied into Landmarks’ wisdom course cirriculum as well. Language is often overlooked as what actually creates our world and our experience. This really shows us how powerful language is in our lives and by shifting our language, we can shift and transform our lives.
I recommend this book to anyone for upgrading themselves during these times. If we want to see ourselves into a future that is better than the one we have been creating, we simply need to live into a different future. We get to decide what that is. When we realize this, we then have power in our lives that can move mountains. Once we tap into that power inside of the people in organizations, one can shift an organization and a world.
Great Great book. Now I want a book on generative language by them.
Rating: 5 / 5