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| Breaking the Rules, Removing the Obstacles to Effortless High Performance | 
enlarge | Author: Kurt Wright Publisher: CPM Publishing Category: Book
Buy New: $23.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (8 reviews) Sales Rank: 93963
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 320 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4 Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0961438339 Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1 EAN: 9780961438333 ASIN: 0961438339
Publication Date: April 15, 1998 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description 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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  Breaking the Tules September 6, 2008 There are some really great concepts in this book. It is written by what I'm guessing is a left-brain author who promotes tapping into your intuition and creativity from all parts of the brain. If there were more cartoons and graphics to break up all the text, it would have appealed to my right brain more and I would have given it a five-star rating.
  I use it everyday August 30, 2006 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Kurt Wright presented a seminar to our management team ten years ago and it changed my life. I was fortunate to participate in a tele-seminar with him that was even more valuable. His approach to asking "right" questions that allows the other person to arrive at their own conclusions has deepened my relationship with colleagues, friends and family. It has totally changed me from a micro-manager to someone who trusts others to achieve objectives. I have rarely been let down when I showed confidence in other's competence to get things done.
  How to Ask the (W)right Question January 24, 2005 3 out of 5 found this review helpful
(1/5) When I was 20, I copied by hand Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. By doing this I experienced a simple side effect, I made 7 million Deutschmarks. A lot of money in those days. When I heard of Kurt and Patricia Wright's book, I copied/extracted the essence and sent my questions to the White House. You'll see, what's going to happen. My only question to Kurt and Patricia is, why don't you change the title to the most effective How to Ask the (W)right Question and Succeed in Life. http://EnergyChallenge.de/091105.htm
  A working manual for driving through life on maximum revs July 3, 2003 9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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!
  This book continues to change my life June 3, 2003 14 out of 14 found this review helpful
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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