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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
Author
Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Management
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Leadership
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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.
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Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.
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The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.
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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
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I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul. (David O. McKay).
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