The Seven Habits is fascinating, comprehensive, and thoroughly uplifting book. Today's complex and interdependent world is plagued by a myriad of common human challenges. These include fear, insecurity, blame, hopelessness, selfishness, conflict, personal stagnation, and a lack of life balance. Permeating all aspects of life, these challenges have a profound impact on personal and professional effectiveness.
In his renowned book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Dr. Stephen Covey proposes a principle-centered approach for addressing such challenges. The Seven Habits are not a “quick fix,” but a long-term commitment to universal principles with the potential to maximize personal and professional success and happiness.
The Seven Habits are said by some to be easy to understand but not as easy to apply. Don't let the challenge daunt you: The 'Seven Habits' are a remarkable set of inspirational and aspiration standards for anyone who seeks to live a full, purposeful and good life, and are applicable today more than ever, as the business world becomes more attuned to humanist concepts. Covey's values are full of integrity and humanity, and contrast strongly with the process-based ideologies that characterized management thinking in earlier times.
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, 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 the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
The entire premise of the book is that most people deal with the problems in their life in a scattershot fashion, and this scattershot fashion leads to disillusionment and disorder. Covey’s answer to this is that to be a truly effective person, you need to learn to solve personal and professional problems with a integrated and principle-centered approach - in other words, the decisions you make both personally and professionally should come from the same core set of values and ideas.
The book is really about developing that core set of values to the point where it’s easy to draw solutions to problems from them, making you a much more effective person in all aspects of life. The seven habits, thus, are ways to draw out the fundamental truths in your life and make them accessible to you at all times, so that when you’re faced with problems, you can easily solve them in a consistent and sensible fashion.
Stephen covey's seven habits of highly effective people
- 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 and then to be understood
- habit 6 - synergize
- habit 7 - sharpen the saw
A basic theme through the book is to work from being dependent on others. To independent then finally interdependent. I have thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to others. There are many more inspirational and deep thoughts that Stephen comes up with throughout the book. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People will help readers set goals, improve relationships, and create a path to life effectiveness.
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