Books like The three laws of performance by Steve Zaffron

The Power of Habit shows how tiny habits shape our lives and how they can be transformed to achieve personal and organizational success.

Learn to navigate high‑stakes, emotionally charged conversations with confidence, ensuring productive outcomes in work and life.

Clayton Christensen explains why leading firms can fail when they follow the right strategy, and offers rules for exploiting disruptive innovation to avoid losing market leadership.

Leaders Eat Last explains how leaders who prioritize the safety and well‑being of their teams build trust, loyalty and high performance in modern organizations.

Effective Executive: Practical Advice for Achieving Business Success

Peter Senge’s acclaimed classic explains how organizations can sustain competitive advantage by becoming learning entities, integrating new thinking and collective aspirations to boost performance.

A practical guide that outlines a rule for eliminating toxic behavior in the workplace, explaining how to identify, confront, and prevent the presence of "assholes" in organizations.

Simon Sinek’s Start with Why explores how leaders and organizations that answer the fundamental question of purpose drive lasting success.

Theory of constriants

In 1986 Edward Lawler alerted American business to the power of the high-involvement organization--one that fosters quick adaptation and change through fewer levels of hierarchy and satisfying work relationships. The logic is simple and the results indisputable: people give more to their work when they have more say in how the company is run. Now Lawler, called "one of today's most prominent scholars" in management literature by Choice magazine, shows us that high-involvement is not just a good idea--it's an economic necessity. Rather than try to copy other nations' management styles, Lawler says, organizations should develop approaches rooted in their own cultures. He explains, "We need an alternative to the total quality management approach that builds on many of its key elements but goes beyond it to provide a competitive advantage for organizations in societies that are characterized by diversity, democracy, entrepreneurial behavior, and respect for the individual.". The Ultimate Advantage is an informed and detailed overview of how an organization must be designed to encourage innovation, increase cost-effectiveness, and deliver enhanced quality, customer service, and speed. Lawler demonstrates how to set up work teams, improvement groups, skill-based pay systems, and other practices that can create an environment where employees grow and the organization prospers. And throughout, Lawler emphasizes the need for interrelated, organizationwide implementation so that quality comes from within, rather than being added on or "inspected in" at a later stage.

A practical guide for supervisors and managers that offers 24 goal-focused strategies to boost employee productivity, set performance incentives, conduct effective reviews, and develop staff while aligning organizational objectives.

Why do so many scorecard projects fail? Why do managers treat information as a source of power to be protected, instead of an asset to be exploited? Clearly there has to be a better way of managing perfomance. After witnessing countless initiatives fail, Oracle thought leader and former Gartner analyst Frank Buytendijk challenges conventional wisdom on the best practices of performance management and developed a new framework that predicts and improves organizational behavior--which in turn maximizes business performance both inside and outside an organization.In Performance Leadership, Buytendijk takes a breakthrough approach that focuses on people's behaviors both within and outside of the organization. He presents the “next practices” of performance management, revealing that the trick is to focus on human behaviors to create strategic alignment across the organization. After reviewing the most popular methodologies today, Frank shows how predicting and correcting human behaviors is the key to achieving your desired results.Performance management is intended to support decision making, manage business operations, and drive people’s behavior. In most cases, however, the behavioral side is forgotten. The framework in Performance Leadership enables you toMotivate your people to follow a common pathAvoid dysfunctional behaviorsCreate strategic alignment--all people taking the right actionsRaise the bar of expected performanceFull of case studies, practical examples, and unconventional thinking, Performance Leadership will help you create better management processes and performance indicators that will help you make the most of your scorecards and strategic plans.Our changing performance landscape is still evolving, as it continues to be formed by strict regulations on compliance and transparency, a global economy, social pressures of greater corporate responsibility, and a wave of new business innovations. In this ever-changing new business environment, Performance Leadership is a forward-thinking road map you cannot afford to be without.