THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE --- POWERFUL LESSONS
IN PERSONAL CHANGE by Stephen R. Covey. Simon & Schuster, 1989
RESTORING THE CHARACTER ETHIC
PART 1 --- Paradigms and Principles --- The "seven habits" --- An
Overview
PART TWO --- private victory
HABIT 1 = Be "proactive" (principles of personal vision)
HABIT 2 = Begin with the end in mind (principles of personal leadership)
HABIT 3 = Put first things first (principles of personal management)
You can become a "Quadrant II Self-Manager," and develop a place where:
[1] People are more important than things;
[2] "4th Generation" advances --- Principle-centered, conscience-directed, defines your
unique mission including values and long-term goals,. It helps you balance your life
by identifying roles. It gives you greater context through weekly organizing
[3] Quadrant II paradigm --- key to self-management and the management of
others through delegation is not in any extrinsic technique or tool, but
in seeing through the intrinsic lens of "importance" rather than "urgency"
PART THREE --- Paradigms of interdependence
HABIT 4 = Think "win/win" relationships
[1] Principles of interpersonal leadership
[2] 4 dimensions of win/win work relationships --- character, relationships, agreements, supportive systems & processes
[3] Win/Win management training --- win/win performance agreements
[4] Win/Win systems
[5] Win/Win processes
HABIT 5 = Seek first to understand, then to be understood
[1] Principles of empathic communication
[2] Character
[3] Empathic listening
[4] Diagnose before you prescribe
[5] Understanding and perception
[6] Seek first to understand --- then to be understood
HABIT 6 = Synergize (principles of creative cooperation; levels of
communication --- high and low trust and high and low cooperation; diagram page 270)
PART FOUR --- Renewal
HABIT 7 --- "Sharpen the saw" --- 4 principles of "balanced self-renewal"
physical, social/emotional, spiritual and mental)
[1] The personality and character ethics
[2] Primary and secondary greatness
[3] The "power of a paradigm"
[4] The power of a "paradigm shift"
[5] Seeing and being
[6] The "principle-centered" paradigm
[7] Principles of growth and change
[8] The way we see the problem IS the problem
[9] A new level of thinking --- the "seven habits"
[10] "Habits" are the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire (p47)
[11] What it means to "begin with the end in mind" (page 97)
[12] Highly successful people use the "seven habits"
(see the "Principles Wheel" on page 125)