Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
Stephen Richards Coveywas an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth24 October 1932
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.
We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.
Organize and execute around priorities.
Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust.
It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.
What is common sense isn't common practice.
In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.