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Stephen Covey(Oct 24,1932 to July 16, 2012) was the well
renowned international Management Guru, imparting training to
most of the Fortune 500 companies.
He is the author of several best selling Management books.
He was the co-chairman of Franklin Covey Company, an
international firm devoted to helping individuals, organisations,
and families become more effective through the application of
proven principles of natural law. For many people, reading
Covey's work, or listening to him, literally changes their lives.
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It is principle centered, character based, inside-out approach to
personal and interpersonal effectiveness.
Inside-out means to start first with self, even more fundamentally, to
start with the most inside part of self- with your paradigms, your
character, and your motive.
The inside-out approach says that private victories precedes public
victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes
making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put
personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with
others before improving ourselves.
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4. Pro-activity is more than taking initiative. This is the ability to
control one's environment, rather than have it control you, as is so
often the case. Self determination, choice, and the power to
decide response to stimulus, conditions and circumstances.
We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things
happen.
Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility.
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5. It is based on principles of personal leadership, which means that
the Leadership is the first creation and Management is the second
creation.
Leadership and management are the two creations.
Management is a bottom line focus.
According to Peter Drucker:Management is doing the things
right , Leadership is doing the right things.
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6. This is the principles of personal management.
Habit 1 says you are the creator. It is based on the four unique
endowments of imagination, conscience, independent will and
particularly self awareness.
Effective management is put first things first. While leadership
decides what first things are, it is the management that puts
them first.
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It is the habit of interpersonal leadership.
It involves the exercise of each of the unique human endowments-
self awareness, imagination, conscience, and independent will in
our relationship with others. Character is the foundation of win/win
and everything else builds on that foundation.
Win/Win is a total paradigm of human interaction. It comes from a
character of integrity, maturity, and the abundance mentality.
It grows out of high trust relationship. Lack of respect & trust
destroys relationship & puts the organization always in
urgency mode. Achievements are largely dependent on co-
operative efforts with others.
8. Seek first to understand involves a very deep shift in paradigm.
We typically seek first to be understood.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they
listen with the intent to reply.
In order to seek first to understand we have to be empathetic
listener.
What is empathy?
It is the awareness of other’s feelings, needs, and concerns. Empathy is our
social radar. It is the ability to sense what others feel without their explicitly
saying so.
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9. What is Synergy? It means that the whole is greater than the sum
of its parts.
Synergy, in general, may be defined as two or more agents
working together to produce a result not obtainable by any of the
agents independently.
Synergy is the essence of principle centered leadership.
It catalyzes, unifies, and unleashes the greatest powers within
people.
The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to
build on strengths, to compensate for weakness.(Envy, jealousy,
selfishness are the main negative attributes of a human being
which becomes the main bottlenecks in synergy)
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10. It is the renewal of following four dimensions of our nature:-
i) Physical:-Exercise, nutrition, stress management.
ii) Spiritual:-Value clarification, commitment, study & meditation.
iii) Mental:- Reading, Visualising, Plannin, Writing.
iv) Social/emotional:-Service, empathy.
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Seven Habits of
Highly Effective
People-Stephen
R Covey
Habit 1-
Be Proactive
Habit 2
Begin with the
end in mind
Habit 3
Put first things
first
Habit 4
Think Win/Win
Habit 5
Seek first to
understand then
to be
understood
Habit 6-
Synergize
Babit-7
Sharpen the Saw
Self awareness-
Commitment
Imagination,
conscience,
emotions, conduct
Leadership-
Mission, values,
Contribution,
Judgment, inspire,
innovate, Lead by
example, mentor
Management-
Motivate,
Accomplish, Do
things right.
Relationship-
Love, Respect,
Trust
Empathy-
Listen, Understand,
Care, Support
Collaboration-
Team work,
Group effort,
Delegation
Self
Development
-Reading, writing,
socialising,
exercising, work
life balancing.
