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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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We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.
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True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
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Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.
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Everyone has values even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
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Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
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We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
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It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more when we expect less, we tend to get less.
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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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The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.
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I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
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The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
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One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.
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Synergy is the highest activity of life it creates new untapped alternatives it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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