This book represents but the first step towards getting these ideas out to a much larger audience.

Pooling contributions from many different sources, the result is three laws on elevating performance. The point they make is that it's laws, not rules, tips nor steps. Which means these are invariables. They argue the point by saying that, "whether you believe in gravity or not doesn't lessen its effect on you".

Reading the Foreword, Author's Note and Introduction was enough to get me hooked. Why? Two critical points were raised, which I will outline here. First point, and the more compelling one, is that everyone experiences a future in front of them even if they can't articulate it. As they put it, "...it goes beyond what they expect to happen. This future lives at a gut level. We know it's what will happen, whether we can give words to it or not. We call this the default future, and every person has one. So does every organisation." The second point made is that our relationship with the default future is complex. What this means is that sometimes our intentions in itself are not to move things or change what we want or need. That our reaction to our default future may affect the end results we're after, that we may be living our default future unwittingly, a future we may not want or like. And the point that the authors make is that this sort of dynamic occurs at the organisational level as well.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part takes us through the three laws and indicates how we can apply them. We discuss case studies, dramatic examples of the laws in action. The good thing is that you can apply the laws both on a professional level as well as on a personal one. The second part of hte book looks at leadership in the light of these laws and how we can apply this in organisations. The third part is about the personal face of leadership, personal mastery of these laws and guidance on putting this in action.

So, it doesn't matter who you are, if you are keen on ramping up performance or excellence for yourself, for your team or for your organisation, this book is for you. The book is written in an easy to read style. It's clear, direct and simple language makes it almost effortless to digest. - Ed.