Stephen Covey is best known , as the author of the best selling book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People . I had read this book long time back and as per me the concept proposed in his book is universal and will never be redundant.
Covey's proposed the concept based on the understanding that man is a function of his habit and any change in life needs a change in habit.The idiom that habits die hard is so true -its extremely hard to break a habit as it develops from childhood and remain with you as you grow and sometime dies only with the person. Someone once told me the word HABIT itself indicates how difficult it is to give it up - so if you remove the H - A BIT remains , if you remove the A - BIT remains and if you then remove the B - IT still remains.
Covey therefore proposed that one should break from an existing habit and pick up a new one if one desires a change in his life (else same action will always produce the same reaction). He has then gone ahead ,to help identify 7 habits which are common among the more successful and effective people viz. some well known leaders and personalities. Below are summary of this 7 habits
Also complied below are some of his quotes which are very interestingCovey's proposed the concept based on the understanding that man is a function of his habit and any change in life needs a change in habit.The idiom that habits die hard is so true -its extremely hard to break a habit as it develops from childhood and remain with you as you grow and sometime dies only with the person. Someone once told me the word HABIT itself indicates how difficult it is to give it up - so if you remove the H - A BIT remains , if you remove the A - BIT remains and if you then remove the B - IT still remains.
Covey therefore proposed that one should break from an existing habit and pick up a new one if one desires a change in his life (else same action will always produce the same reaction). He has then gone ahead ,to help identify 7 habits which are common among the more successful and effective people viz. some well known leaders and personalities. Below are summary of this 7 habits
The First Three Habits surround moving from dependence to independence (self mastery)
- Habit 1: Be Proactive
- Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
- Habit 3: Put First Things First
The Next Three are to do with Interdependence
- Habit 4: Think Win/Win
- Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
- Habit 6: Synergize
The Last habit relates to self-rejuvenation;
- Habit 7: Sharpening the Saw
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey
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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