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Powerful Lessons in Personal Change By Stephen Covey

Book Review

Seven Habits of Highly Effective

People

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Stephen R. Covey is a renowned writer, speaker, academic and humanist. He is also the founder and chairman of the Board of Franklin Covey , an organization devoted to the development of principle-centered leadership on which many of the ideas of this book are based.  

This book’s goal resounds with the goal of this organization

To empower people and organizations to significantly increase their performance capability in order to

achieve worthwhile purposes through understanding and living principle-centered leadership.

About the Author

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In the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey presents an holistic, integrated and principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity – principles that give us the security to adapt to change, and wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. The objective is to help a person achieve true interdependent "effectiveness.

An Overview

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1 Be

proactive

A Paradigm

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Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works.

We are what we repeatedly do Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit Habits are learned and

unlearned We are not the habits, hence we can change them

Paradigms and Principles

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DOTake the initiativeFocus on yourselfMake a choice, and Take responsibility for it

Habit One: Be Proactive DON’TPlay the victimBlame your circumstances, orBe influenced by external

factors

“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside”

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Responsibility Ability to choose your ResponseYour reaction to something that hurts you is more

influential than what is actually hurting you!

Habit One: Be Proactive

“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”

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Habit 2: Begin with the End in MindHave a clear understanding of your

destinationKnow where you are now and where you

want to be. Make every day count

Everything is created twice: mentally, then physically.

Blueprint and BuildingPlan and Execution

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BlueprintBecome your own 'builder‘Make clear decisions and

opinions based on your own morals

BuildingLet no one influence your end

product. Create the building you

originally designed!

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Lead Yourself!

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Focus on YOUR prioritiesKnow the difference between 'important' and 'urgent‘Make your own Time Management MatrixIt's OK to say no

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.Effective people are not problem-

minded; they’re opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Habit 3: Put First Things First

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. Crisis

. Pressing problems

. Deadline-driven projects, meetings, preparations

. Preparation

. Prevention

. Values clarification

. Planning

. Relationship building

. True re-creation

. Empowerment

. Interruptions, some phone calls

. Some mail, some reports

. Some meetings

. Many proximate,pressing matters

. Many popular activities

. Trivia, busywork

. Some phone calls

. Time wasters

. “Escape” activities

. Irrelevant mail

. Excessive TV

I II

III IV

Urgent Not Urgent

Impo

rtant

Not I

mpo

rtant

P rocras t ina tor Pr io r i t i zer

‘Yes Man ’ S lacker

Time Management Matrix

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Independence Private Victory

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Win-Lose Lose-Win Lose-Lose Win Win-Win Win-Win or No Deal

Habit 4:Think Win-Win

Win-Lose People:"My way or the highway

Win-Win People:"Not your way, or my way; a

better way"Lose-Lose People:"As long as they’re

losing, too!

Win-Win or No Deal:

"We agree to disagree,

agreeably"

Win People:"Every man for himselfLose-Win People:

Being the "nice guy" to help others instead of

focusing on themselves

“Be cooperative, not competitive”

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Win-Win People,

Balance courage and consideration

Have integrity - stick with your true values and commitments

Be mature - express your ideas, but give consideration to others values as well

Have an abundance mentality - believe that there is a solution for everyone's benefit

Habit 4:Think Win-Win

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Listen Emphatically

The essence of empathic listening is not that you agree with someone; it is that you fully, deeply, understand that person, emotionally as well as intellectually.

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

DON’T

Evaluate

ProbeAdvise

Interpret

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In order to be effective, any presentations should include:

Ethos - your credibilityPathos - your compassion Logos - your logic

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

Seeking to be understoodRequires high level of courage

Equally critical in reaching win/win solutions.

Understanding

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Have an open mindSeek an alternativeValue differences in opinionThis will create new insights that a singular mind may not have thought of initially

Habit 6: Synergize

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Habit 6: SynergizeTo Synergize is•Results-oriented, positive synergy

•Examining exploring, seeking diverse perspectives openly enough to alter or complete your paradigm

•Cooperating

•Having a mutually agreed-upon end in mind.

•Worth the effort and highly effective

•A process.

To Synergize is Not•A brainstorming free-for-all.

•Accepting others’ ideas as full truth.

•Win-lose competition.

•Group think (giving in to peer pressure).

•Always easy.

•Only a negotiation technique.

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After mastering your own thoughts through the first three Habits, look to effectively collaborate with others with the following three.

Habits 4, 5, and 6 focus mainly on taking the next step from being independent to being interdependent.

Interdependent Public Victory

“Life is, by nature, highly interdependent.”

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Take time to Sharpen the Saw Take out time for YOURSELF There’s an Upward Spiral of Growth along with Change and Improvement.

Habit Seven: Renewal

Continuous Improvement

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“The greatest asset that we have is WE.”

ME Time!

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Duplicity

Unkindness

Violatedexpectations

Outside stressand pressures

Time wasters

Interruptions

Pressingproblems

Crises

Live the Seven Habits

Spend timein Quadrant II

Follow correctprinciples

Control own life

Maintain highEmotional BankAccount with selfand others

Maintain reservecapacity

Be resilientEmpower andserve others

CommunicateEmpathically

Synergize withothers using awin-win approach

“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character,

reap a destiny.”

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PARADIGM SHIFTS

A BREAK FROMTRADITIONAL WISDOM

TOWARD7 HABITS PRINCIPLES

Habit 1 We are a product of our environment and upbringing.

Habit 2 Society is the source of our values.

Habit 3 Reactive to the tyranny of the urgent. Acted upon by the environment.

Habit 4 Win-lose.One-sided benefit.

Habit 5 Fight, flight, or compromise when faced with conflict.

Habit 6 Differences are threats. Independence is the highest value. Unity means sameness.

HABIT 7

Entropy.Burnout on one track - typically work.

We are a product of our choices to our environment and upbringing.Values are self-chosen and provide foundation for decision making. Values flow out of principles.Actions flow from that which is important.

Win-win.Mutual benefit.

Communication solves problems.

Differences are values and are opportunities for synergy.

Continuous self-renewal and self-improvement.

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Any Questions?


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