Monday, October 11, 2010

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic

By Stephen R. Covey
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The Maturity Continuum
The Seven Habits are not a set of separate or piecemeal psych-up formulas. In harmony with the natural laws of growth, they provide an incremental, sequential, highly integrated approach to the development of personal and interpersonal effectiveness. They move us progressively on a Maturity Continuum from dependence to independence to interdependence...

(Excerpt from the “The Seven Habits—An Overview” of the book)

The 7 habits include:
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
Habit 4: Think Win/Win—Principles of Interpersonal Leadership
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood—Principles of Empathic Communication
Habit 6: Synergize—Principles of Creative Cooperation
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw—Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal

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