7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (SUMMARY)

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Stephen R. Covey explained the necessary Habit a leader should have.
The word paradigm come from the Greek and it means theory, perception assumption in general

“it is the way we see”. Paradigm are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world, to relate effectively with wife, children, friends, or working associates we must learn to listen. Listen involves patience, openness and the desire to understand – highly developed qualities of character.

Habit 1 Be proactive

Pro-activity means that as human begins, we are responsible for our own lives. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment, it the weather is good, they feel good, if it isn’t it affect them.

It not what happens to us that hurts but our response to what happens to us.

Habit 2 Begin with the end in mind

Begin with the end in mind is to begin today with the image, picture, paradigm of the end of our life frame of reference by which everything else is examined. To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of our destination .. it also means knowing where you are going

Habit 3 Put first things first

It’s the exercise of independent will toward becoming principle –centered. urgent matters are usually visible, and often they are pleasant, easy, fund to do but so often they are unimportant.

Important on the other hand has to do with results. If something is important it contributes to our mission your values

Your high priority goals.

Habit 4 Think to win/win

Win/win is not a technique: it’s a total philosophy of human interaction.in fact it is one of six paradigms of interaction. The alternative paradigms are win/lose, lose/lose/win and win/win or no deal.

Habit 5 Seek first to understand, and then be understood

Communication is the most important skill in life. we have spent most of our working hours communicating, we learn how to read and speak but not on listening. Comparatively few people have had any training in listening at all.

Habit 6 Synergize

Synergy is the essence of principle centered parenting. it catalyzes powers within people. Unless we value the difference in our perceptions, unless we value each other and give credence to the possibility that we’re both right, that life is not always a dichotomous either or that there are almost always third alternatives, we will never be able to transcend the limits of the condition.

Habit 7 Sharpen the saw

Habit 7 is personal pc. It’s preserving the enhancing the greatest asset you have. It renewing the four dimensions of your nature –physical, spiritual, mental, and social.

“Sharpen the saw” basically means expressing all four motivation means exercising all four dimension of our natural regularly and consistently in wise balanced way. And to be effective, we need to recognize the important of talking time regularly to sharpen the saw in all four ways.