Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey

Author, Speaker

Stephen Covey was a renowned author and educator, best known for his book 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,' which transformed personal and professional development.

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Born
October 24, 1939
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702
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#331

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"If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative."

Running Character Successful
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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."

Self People Empowering
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"Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family."

Children School Roles
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"Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices."

Communication Choices Intuition
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"When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary."

Teaching Feelings Levels
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"Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism."

Culture
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"Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have."

Team Masters Be Good
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"I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important."

Team People Decision
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"Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves."

Leadership People Communicate
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"Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits."

Past People Design
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"When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation."

Freedom Believe Yield
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"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."

Power Choices Decision
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"Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus."

Victory Algebra Calculus
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"Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management."

Inspirational Heart People
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"As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations."

Family Balance Trying
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"In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier."

Real Essence Two
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"Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way."

Winning Alternatives Way
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"Leaders are not born or made - they are self made"

Self Leader Born
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