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Breaking the Rules, Removing the Obstacles to Effortless High Performance [Hardcover]

Kurt Wright (Author)
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0961438339 978-0961438333 April 15, 1998
Breaking the Rules is both an intensely personal self-improvement book and a business management book. On the self-improvement side it is a personal guide for discovering what you are like at your very best and how to be that way more often. It offers a complete system of self-understanding based on the premise that being at your best is your natural state, and one you could be enjoying more often if you weren't doing so much to interfere with it. The author invites readers to join him in a discovery learning process that reveals how to stop interfering and learn to tap into and begin to work with the natural guidance that is readily available through your inner intuitive knowing.

A complete description is furnished for how real-time access to your intuition can be easily achieved when your intuition is being supplied with properly framed questions.

Breaking the Rules proposes that:

1) Being at your best cannot occur until you gain real-time access to your intuition.

2) While it may be easier for women to access their intuition, it is actually men who have the more powerful intuitive capability. The real need is for both men and women to fully appreciate and make better use of this valuable strength.

3) The proper use of "what's right" questions is a far simpler and more effective way to solve problems than trying to figure out what's wrong and fix it.

4) All that we know about what it takes for an individual to be at his or her best must cross-apply to an organization or it cannot be considered valid.

5) All that we think must occur for an organization to be at its best must also be true for an individual at his or her best or it cannot be considered valid.

6) Our lives work best when they are lived in full alignment with our life's purpose. Unfortunately, less than five percent of the population is able to articulate their life's purpose.

7) Problems that occur in our lives are simply ways used by our inner self to let us know that we are out of alignment with our life's purpose.

On the business management side, the work presented in Breaking the Rules is the culmination of more than 20 years of inquiry, development and field testing around the question, "What causes commitment, in its healthiest, least stressful form?" The author's initial working premise was that if the thought process used by visionary leaders to achieve their high level of effectiveness could be truly understood, that understanding should offer an ideal model for allowing organizations to achieve their own greatness. Breaking the Rules shows how this can now be demonstrated consistently in practice.



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There's an old saying that we teach what we wish to learn. My career has been one of teaching people how to bring out the best in themselves and others. This focus of attention grew out of a decision made in 1970 to spend the rest of my life seeking to understand what each of us is like at our very best. I observed that there were far too many studies of what is wrong with people and too few about what is right with people. Breaking the Rules thus summarizes the findings from this 27-year study of what each of us is like when we are at our very best, and how to be that way more often.

During the study it became clear that people who operate at their best most of the time didn't learn to do so by looking outside themselves for answers. For this reason, I resisted the idea of writing a book about my findings. It seemed to me that it would be too easy for a book to reward readers for looking to me for answers. I was unwilling to do that. Eventually I found a way to write so there is not a sentence of advice in the entire 320 pages of Breaking the Rules. In lieu of advice, I have attempted to capture and model throughout the book a unique mentor-coaching process that shows up in the background of every visionary leader I have studied.

From the Inside Flap

Excellence, empowerment and peak performance are timely issues. Breaking the Rules shows that being at your best is your birthright, and that returning to that natural state is the essence of empowerment and peak performance. Self-empowerment-accessing your own power, your own inner knowing, and being guided by that-is the key to excellence and peak performance.

Unlike many popular books on excellence, Breaking the Rules does not lead you on yet another fruitless chase-looking outside yourself for answers. Being on a roll is not about copying others or relying on someone else's rules. Instead, Breaking the Rules offers profoundly insightful guidance for the inner work you must do before you can achieve true, self-sustaining excellence.

Key things you'll learn:

* Life Purpose - It is one thing to identify your purpose in life. It is quite another to bring your daily life into alignment with that purpose. Readers call Breaking the Rules a breakthrough work because of its ability to help you do both.

* Right Questions - Breaking the Rules brings you a vital new approach to asking the right questions that will open you up to the on-stream guidance you need from your intuition to get on a roll and stay there.

* Relationships - Relationships with the people around you often mirror the internal relationship between your head and your heart. External relationships improve quickly when you do the inner work described in Breaking the Rules.

* Mentor-Coaching - Totally different from an advice-giving mentor, the mentor-coach you need must model the style of asking right questions that comes through clearly in Breaking the Rules.

Kurt Wright is founder and President of Clear Purpose Management, Inc., an international consulting firm. He has coached leaders from some of the most respected companies in the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe. His work, as well as the ideas included in Breaking the Rules, grew out of his 1970 decision to spend the rest of his life working to understand what each of us is like at our very best. With his typical thoroughness, he now shares these findings with readers everywhere.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: C P M Pub (April 15, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0961438339
  • ISBN-13: 978-0961438333
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #480,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book continues to change my life, June 3, 2003
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Inga Star (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Breaking the Rules, Removing the Obstacles to Effortless High Performance (Hardcover)
Breaking the is truly a life-changing book for me. Just another self-help book, I thought. It turned out to be unlike any other self-help book that I've ever read.

How is this book different? This is not a book that made me feel good, but never managed to change anything about me, leaving me feel more powerless than before. The authors, Kurt and Patricia Wright, actually manage to engage into a relationship with me, never leaving me off the hook. On the contrary, sometimes I found them to be so inquisitive and personal I put the book down or feel uncomfortable with their questions.

It is indeed the questions that are life changing. I never really new how to ask questions of myself and others that actually improve things. You know how in our conversations and thoughts we so often focus on what's wrong and trying to fix that? And how it never really gets us anywhere? Breaking the Rules is about that, about asking right, empowering questions. About learning to recognize your already existing strength and to build on those so we can all reach a state of effortless high performance.

After reading this book I can never look at myself the same way again. It's like that image where you could at first only see the old lady, unable to see that there was also a young lady in there. Once you see the young lady you can never "unsee" her.

If you are ready for looking at what's right in your own life and the lives of those around you, whether in your personal relationships or in business, you've found your book.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A working manual for driving through life on maximum revs, July 3, 2003
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Mrs. S. P. Jones (Yorkshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Breaking the Rules, Removing the Obstacles to Effortless High Performance (Hardcover)
This is a brilliant, provocative, intriguing, challenging, energising (literally!) book!

What was the best thing for me?

His concept of the Detached Control Achievement patterns (That's me!)

Other great things?

Clarity around how to GET my Life Purpose (two years of Landmark Forum training did not get me to GET that!).

We get more of what we measure (so measure what you want improved)

That I have a "powerful drive to learn" and all the behaviour/thoughts which go with that.

I look at the world through my own eyes, not those of others. No wonder when I ask people about me, what they see is so different from what I see myself! Powerful insights for me here.

And that I need to envision at least 10 years ahead (last year I created a goal of being "Alive, Alert and Active on my 100th birthday" so I've been thinking along the Right lines.)

It's amazing how my perspective changed when I thought in terms of having another 45 years of life to map out and plan!

This is not just a book - it is a working manual for driving through life on maximum revs!
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars How to get on a roll and never stop, February 23, 1999
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mary@bookzone.com (Scottsdale, Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This is one of the most remarkable books I have ever read about effortless high performance.

Wright provides practical, achievable techniques that can take you beyond your wildest dreams, then backs them up with anecdotes. My colleagues and I have used these techniques and achieved remarkable success.

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effortless high performance, strategic life plan, distinguishing truth from fiction, patching leaks, residual processing, achievement patterns, full alignment, success patterns, intuitive mind, own defensiveness, hypothetical extremes, obstacle number, team dialogues, analytical mind, perception capability
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Clear Purpose Management, Hoover Dam, Abraham Maslow, Betty Edwards, Maxwell Maltz, Peter Drucker, Right Side of the Brain, San Diego
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