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Vote: | A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. |
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Vote: | Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru. |
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Vote: | Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. |
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Vote: | Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. |
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Vote: | I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. |
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Vote: | I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized. |
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Vote: | If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep gettingwhat we're getting. |
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Vote: | In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. |
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Vote: | It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. |
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Vote: | Live out of your imagination, not your history. |
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Vote: | Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. |
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Vote: | Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. |
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Vote: | Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. |
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Vote: | Public behavior is merely private character writ large. |
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Vote: | The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. |
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Vote: | The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. |
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Vote: | There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. |
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Vote: | We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. |
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Vote: | We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. |
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Vote: | We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. |
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Stephen R. Covey (born October 24 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the author of the bestselling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, as well as other books. He is the founder of the Covey Leadership Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is the "Covey" of the Franklin-Covey Corporation, which makes planners and organizers.
The Seven Habits, Stephens first book, was extremely succesful and has sold over 10 million copies (ISBN 0671708635), the book argues against the "Personality Ethic" prevalent in many modern self help books, and instead promotes the "Character Ethic" which is more principle based. The book was first published in 1990. The follow up titles add to the original and form a cohesive philosophy for how to lead your life based on your principles. They include :
Principle Centered Leadership, published in 1992 (ISBN 0671792806).
First Things First, co-authored with Roger and Rebecca Merrill, published in 1996 (ISBN 0684802031).
The 8th Habit, published in 2004 (ISBN 0684846659).
Living the Seven Habits, published in 2000 (ISBN 0684857162).
All of the titles are additonally available as audio books.
Stephen works to help others gain proficiency in their lives, especially within the context of business and management. However, there is a welcome emphasis on the family and how to lead in all parts of your life, so the books are as applicable to a high powered executive as they are to a stay at home Mom (or Dad).
Similar authors might include Peter Drucker, David Allen as well as other more business-centered writers.
External links * ISSSP Profile
* Covey Quotes
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