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
Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Leadership is a choice, not a position