Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
Stephen Richards Coveywas an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth24 October 1932
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.
Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good.
Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings.
I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.
Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people
Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.