THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE --- POWERFUL LESSONS
IN PERSONAL CHANGE by Stephen R. Covey. Simon & Schuster, 1989
    RESTORING THE CHARACTER ETHIC

    PART 1 --- PARADIGMS AND PRINCIPLES --- The "Seven Habits" --- An Overview

    PART 2 --- PRIVATE VICTORY

      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

        You can become a "Quadrant II Self-Manager," and develop a place where:

        [1] People are more important than things;

        [2] "4th Generation" advances --- Principle-centered, conscience-directed, defines your unique mission including values and long-term goals,. It helps you balance your life by identifying roles. It gives you greater context through weekly organizing

        [3] Quadrant II paradigm --- key to self-management and the management of others through delegation is NOT in any extrinsic technique or tool, but in seeing through the intrinsic lens of "importance" rather than "urgency"

    PART 3 --- PARADIGMS OF INTERDEPENDENCE

      HABIT 4 = THINK "WIN/WIN" RELATIONSHIPS

        [1] Principles of interpersonal leadership

        [2] 4 dimensions of win/win work relationships --- character, relationships, agreements, supportive systems & processes

        [3] Win/Win management training --- win/win performance agreements

        [4] Win/Win systems

        [5] Win/Win processes

      HABIT 5 = SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTAND

        [1] Principles of empathic communication

        [2] Character

        [3] Empathic listening

        [4] Diagnose before you prescribe

        [5] Understanding and perception

        [6] Seek first to understand --- then to be understood

      HABIT 6 = Synergize --- Principles of creative cooperation; levels of communication --- high and low trust and high and low cooperation; diagram (p270)

    PART 4 --- Renewal

      HABIT 7 --- "Sharpen the saw" --- 4 principles of "balanced self-renewal" physical, social/emotional, spiritual and mental)

        [1] The personality and character ethics

        [2] Primary and secondary greatness

        [3] The "power of a paradigm"

        [4] The power of a "paradigm shift"

        [5] Seeing and being

        [6] The "principle-centered" paradigm

        [7] Principles of growth and change

        [8] The way we "see" the problem IS the problem!

        [9] A new level of thinking --- The Seven Habits"

        [10] Habits are the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire! (p47)

        [11] What it means to "begin with the end in mind" (p97)

        [12] Highly successful people use the Seven Habits
        (see the "Principles Wheel" (p125)

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