The 8th Habit Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B000KLPGZ8 | Format: EPUB
The 8th Habit Description
Stephen Covey already defined the seven habits of effective leaders. Now
The 8th Habit is revealed! In this compelling presentation, Dr. Covey pushes leaders to be not only effective, but truly great. In this live presentation, learn from the most respected source on leadership how to:
Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs
Contribute and succeed in the knowledge economy
Make leadership a choice versus a position
Turn an organization's top goals into action.
Dr. Stephen R. Covey is co-founder/vice-chairman of FranklinCovey Company, a leading global professional services firm. FranklinCovey offers learning and performance solutions to assist professionals and organizations in significantly increasing their effectiveness in productivity, leadership, communications and sales. Dr. Covey is perhaps best known as the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. He is an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, and organizational consultant who has made teaching principle-centered living and principle-centered leadership his life's work.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 45 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Better Life Media, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: November 16, 2006
- Language: English
- ASIN: B000KLPGZ8
If you haven't read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, I suggest you read that one before this book.
Dr. Covey obviously pulled out all of the stops in trying to make this book as helpful as possible to his readers. The book contains summaries of the material in his other books, repeats many stories from those books, reconciles the material with most of the business book best sellers in recent years, contains a DVD full of inspiring videos, provides references to many free materials on his web site, has extensive appendices and contains many thoughtful sections on questions and answers. As a result, the book comes across like an encyclopedia of his teachings . . . rather than as the simple communication that is so delightful in his other books. I suspect that Dr. Covey changed ghostwriters for this one (at least I assume that the other books were ghostwritten because they avoid the ponderous communications style that Dr. Covey uses in person).
So what is the 8th habit? Allow me to paraphrase. It'll be quicker that way. You act with integrity as an individual and help others to do the same.
In Covey-speak, it's the overlap of personal greatness (applying the 7 habits in the forms of vision, discipline, passion and conscience), leadership greatness (applying the 4 roles of leadership (modeling the 7 habits, path finding, aligning and Empowering), and organizational greatness (turned into a vision, mission and values that bring clarity, commitment, translation, synergy, enabling and accountability). See Figure 14.3 on page 280 for the simplest expression of the 8th habit in Covey-speak.
Can you make a book out of that point? Well, if you put in lots of examples, you can . . . which Dr. Covey did.
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