7 Habits
7 Habits
I won a copy of "Principle Centered Leadership" by Stephen R. Covey. The little I read suggested that the author was more than he appeared: your average management consultant seems to display very little by way of faith, yet Covey seemed to have some kind of faith underpinning his argument. A little research provided me answers. First was an article A Closer Look At Stephen Covey And His 7 Habits which lead me to read The Shifting Paradigms of Stephen Covey. As a committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Covey obviously would be arguing from a position of faith if that faith had made any impact on his life.
While the underpinnings of Covey's thought process are somewhat different to my own I still found it interesting to read and think about his 7 habits, and look at the converse of each. Covey points out in the introduction to "Principle Centered Leadership" that the inverse of each of the 7 habits of effective people work out as being habits of ineffective people:Ineffective- Be reactive: doubt yourself and blame others
- Work without any clear end in mind
- Do the urgent thing first
- Think win/lose
- Seek first to be understood
- If you can't win, compromise
- Fear change and put off improvement
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Effective
- Be Proactive
- Begin with the End in Mind
- Put First Things First
- Think Win/Win
- Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
- Synergize
- Sharpen the Saw
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
我正在读这本书，里面涉及的远远不止是提高效率而已，更多的是关于原则、价值观、甚至生命的意义。那七条原则原本在一次培训中已经读过，不过现在看来，当初的理解都是很片面的。真是一本非常有价值的书，中文版的名字是《与成功有约》三联出版社出版的
Posted by bruce at December 13, 2002 06:40 PM
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