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Five habits of highly effective people
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Introduction
Why Stephen Covey?
The reason why I chose to read Steven Covey 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is because this book was recommended to me from my father. He first read the book for his job at RR Donnelley’s when he was a manager. The book was recommended to him from his boss.
My father knowing that I am pursuing a career in a management knew that I could benefit and receive helpful information from this book.
Dr. Covey’s books are known for being inspirational and influential for management. This book helps with personal development and personally I am at a point of my life where I am making a change from student to career professional. I will be able to use the principles and habits learned from the book in everyday life. Stephen Covey’s book is about learning ways for people to grow, make changes and how to become more effective in their lives.
Review
“There are certain fundamental principles that govern in all human interactions, and living in harmony with those principles or natural laws is absolutely essential for quality family life.” - Dr. Covey
Content Overview
Seven Habits, Covey discusses about are not some “words and meaning” you can put in an equation and find the perfect answer for success. This book is nothing like algebra in where you have formulas and you find what “x” equals. You use the habits and the exercises Dr. Covey shows you in the book as a guide. Using the habits and exercises Dr. Covey shows in the book, you can create a powerful plan of action to change yourself and to guide others during change. Dr. Covey emphasizes a return to principles or values in order to achieve change in our lives. You have to understand what you value in life and what your priorities in life are. ...
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...remain as a reference to me for the rest of my life. I hope to share the mentor of Dr. Covey to my future coworkers.
"Voice is unique personal significance—significance that is revealed as we face our greatest challenges and that makes us equal to them." -Stephen Covey’s 8th habit.
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In the first place, from our complex personalities, why focus on voice? According to Barbara McAfee, the voice is: “the way you sound when you speak or sing, an
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Distinctive voices of individuals is far much greater than just one’s spoken words; Isn’t it? Voices hold so much more meaning! It can be said to be one’s expression of their attitudes or perspective through body language or a series of actions. We can see that one’s unique opinion towards a subject is inevitably articulated through their unique expression which draws others into viewing the expressed perspective.
Goldratt takes a very practical example of today’s world, an Engineer with an MBA degree, Mr. Alex Rogo, as his protagonist and his struggle to get a loss making company to a profit making one along with his family in the back-ground, obviously an important one, to explain the drudgeries of a manufacturing engineer’s life. Goldratt explains several management skills to be inherited in any professional’s life with ease, in this thought provoking novel based management textbook. The ideas expressed in this book, although difficult to be digested normally, are easily conceptualized in the form of a novel, which any professional can easily relate to.
When it came down to choosing a book from the choices provided, I just had to select Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. This is a great book to read if you are having financial trouble in your life or if you are just need some motivation to get you going in the right path. Napoleon Hill is a acclaimed author who teaches you in this book the 13 success principles used by the great success stories of the early 20th-century. Napoleon Hill interviewed with William Wrigley, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie and 500 others. He gives you the secrets that helped these great leaders rise to the top in their respected industries. Many of today's top achievers credit Napoleon Hill's work as being the blueprint to their success. Access the secrets that helped great leaders rise to the top. For three decades Napoleon Hill studied, interviewed and interpreted the habits, attitudes and knowledge of great achievers, like brilliant inventors such as Edison, Ford and Bell and rich and powerful businesspersons such as Carnegie, Wrigley and Rockefeller. I was given this book from my mother who has read this book several times and has grown to appreciate its value and how much it could help me in my life at whatever I choose to do. Therefore, it would only make since from me to pick this book over the others as soon as I saw it on the list.
I personally found this book to be an excellent read, and while I haven’t read to many business management books. I can feel safe to say that I think this one does an excellent job in conveying key management principals for today’s workplace. It also appealed to me due to my fascination with the way in which our military operates. I believe he did a great job of staying clear of getting too detailed in either is leadership model and military jargon. I would recommend this book to anyone who feels intimidated by management books that read more like a textbook, who want to learn but also enjoy the reading too.
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Jim Collins and his research team have done a wonderful job identifying what it takes for a company to go from good to great. I found this book to be extremely interesting and would like to share several of my thoughts.
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"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey outlines seven main beliefs that he believes individuals need to focus on in order to become highly effective. “Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily express our character and produce our effectiveness…or ineffectiveness.” (Covey 46)