The 7 Habits Of Highly productive PeoplE

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Introduction

Stephen R. Covey's most popular book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), was New York Times number-one best seller. In 2002, Forbes rated this book as one of top-10 most influential management books, and Chief Executive Magazine rated book as one of two most influential business books of twentieth century. While The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was designed for self-improvement, book looks at ways people and organizations use personality-based solutions, “social Band-Aids,” to solve problems. Acknowledging importance of personality ethic, Covey encourages people to look deeper and to emphasize character ethic (Covey, 2004).

The seven habits espoused in book are as follows: Be proactive; begin with end in mind; put first things first; think win-win; seek first to understand, then to be understood; synergize; and sharpen saw. Covey encourages readers to understand that seven habits are not quick fixes and that habits may take time to acquire and institutionalize in meaningful manner. Several of Covey's later publications, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families (1997), Quotes and Quips: Insights on Living 7 Habits (1998), and Living 7 Habits: Stories of Courage and Inspiration (1999), were built on framework contained in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . Other Covey publications include The Divine Center (1988), Principle-Centered Leadership (1991), First Things First (1994), and The Nature of Leadership (1998).

Being effective is learning to do 'that which produces desired result'. If you want to be extremely successful in business or very happy in life or achieve some large goal, then being effective is consistently doing things that will bring about results you are after (Covey, 2004). The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was groundbreaker when it was first published in 2004, and it continues to be business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as often from family positions as from enterprise challenges. (Krayer 2003)

Before you can adopt seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls "paradigm shift"-- change in perception and interpretation of how world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you see and proceed considering productivity, time management, affirmative conceiving, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with start rather than reacting), and much more (Covey, 2004).

Perhaps best overall prescription for becoming effective is contained within Stephen Covey's best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Published by Simon & Schuster, this book provides useful, sequential framework for understanding much about process of Personal Development. (Covey 2004)

Covey does not claim to have invented 7 habits, but rather to have discovered them and to have found simple language for articulating them. In detail, he states that these rudimentary values of effectiveness may be discovered in all world ...