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the three laws
of performance discussion guide
A Blueprint for Conversations that Cause Breakthroughs
introduction
We’ve found that people who create breakthrough performance in their organizations and their lives lead conversations that follow a particular blueprint. This guide focuses on that blueprint, which contains four processes:
1. Generating an Urgent Case for Action that will galvanize you and others.
2. Establishing the conversational environment needed for breakthrough performance. 3. Creating new levels of leadership for yourself and others as required by the Urgent Case for Action.
4. Rewriting the future.
In the pages that follow, as in the book, we will ask you to think in new ways, to examine your assumptions, and explore different ways of approaching situations. If you do, our promise to you is breakthrough performance in your organization and your life. These are not easy conversations to have, but they work. As Jacques Derrida wrote, “if things were simple, word would have gotten around.”
As you work though this guide, it’s helpful to have a notebook, or a computer file, to record your work, including commitments you make along the way.
This guide will lead you and others to apply The Three Laws of Performance, and the three
Leadership Corollaries. For easy reference, these are reprinted below. page 1
the three laws of performance
1
2
3
How People Perform Correlates To How Situations Occur To Them
Leadership Corollary: Leaders Have A Say, And Give Others A Say, In
How Situations Occur
How A Situation Occurs Arises In Language
Leadership Corollary: Leaders Master The Conversational
Environment
Future-Based Language Transforms How Situations Occur To People
Leadership Corollary: Leaders Listen For The Future Of Their
Organization
process 1
Generating an Urgent Case for Action that will galvanize you and others.
You’ll find it helpful to re-read chapter 3 before beginning this process.
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of performance discussion guide
A Blueprint for Conversations that Cause Breakthroughs
introduction
We’ve found that people who create breakthrough performance in their organizations and their lives lead conversations that follow a particular blueprint. This guide focuses on that blueprint, which contains four processes:
1. Generating an Urgent Case for Action that will galvanize you and others.
2. Establishing the conversational environment needed for breakthrough performance. 3. Creating new levels of leadership for yourself and others as required by the Urgent Case for Action.
4. Rewriting the future.
In the pages that follow, as in the book, we will ask you to think in new ways, to examine your assumptions, and explore different ways of approaching situations. If you do, our promise to you is breakthrough performance in your organization and your life. These are not easy conversations to have, but they work. As Jacques Derrida wrote, “if things were simple, word would have gotten around.”
As you work though this guide, it’s helpful to have a notebook, or a computer file, to record your work, including commitments you make along the way.
This guide will lead you and others to apply The Three Laws of Performance, and the three
Leadership Corollaries. For easy reference, these are reprinted below. page 1
the three laws of performance
1
2
3
How People Perform Correlates To How Situations Occur To Them
Leadership Corollary: Leaders Have A Say, And Give Others A Say, In
How Situations Occur
How A Situation Occurs Arises In Language
Leadership Corollary: Leaders Master The Conversational
Environment
Future-Based Language Transforms How Situations Occur To People
Leadership Corollary: Leaders Listen For The Future Of Their
Organization
process 1
Generating an Urgent Case for Action that will galvanize you and others.
You’ll find it helpful to re-read chapter 3 before beginning this process.
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