2. About the Author and Book
o Late STEPHEN R. COVEY, MBA from Harvard, doctorate
degree from Brigham Young University
o Co-founder and vice chairman of Franklin Covey
o International Entrepreneur of the Year Award
o Published in 1989.
o Sold over 25 millions copies (38 languages)
o Most Influential Business Book of the 20th & 21st Century.
3. Common deep personal & professional
problems
•How to reach the career goals set without losing personal and
family life ?
•How can I keep a promise I make to myself ?
•How can one really congratulate a friend enthusiastically for
achieving some degree of success & recognition without eating his
heart out ?
•There's so much to do & there's never enough time. How can I
manage my life effectively ?
4. Habit 1
Be Proactive
“I know of no more encouraging
fact
then the unquestionable ability of
man
to elevate his life by conscious
endeavor.”
5. Habit 1
Be Proactive
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Proactivity is the habit of personal vision.
You can either be proactive or reactive.
Don’t wait for events.
Plan well in advance.
Taking decisions in a timely fashion.
Taking responsibility.
The Four Human Endowments:
• Self-Awareness
• Imagination
• Conscience
• Independent Will
7. Habit 2
BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
“What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.”
To Begin with the End in Mind means to
start with a clear understanding of your
destination.
8. Habit 2
BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
All Things Are Created Twice
All things are created twice: the mental or first creation, and the physical or second
creation
I will create results mentally before beginning any activity.
leadership is the first creation. Management is the second creation,
Using Your Whole Brain
the two unique human endowments that enable us to practice Habit 2 -- imagination
and conscience -- are primarily functions of the right side of the brain.
Expand Perspective
Visualization and Affirmation
A Personal Mission Statement
It describes what we want to be (character) and to do (achievements)
You could call a personal mission statement a sort of written constitution - its power
lies in the fact that it’s fundamentally changeless.
The key to living with change is retaining a sense of who you are and what you
value.
9. Habit 3
Put First Things First
“Things which matter most must never be
at the mercy of things which matter
least.”
10. Habit 3
Put First Things First
PRINCIPLE OF PERSONAL MANAGEMENT
THE POWER OF INDEPENDENT WILL
Facilitates effective self management
Focuses on ability to act rather than to be acted upon
Measured by integrity i.e. the values we place on ourselves
Emphasizes on “TO WALK OUR TALK”
11. TIME MANAGEMENT
MATRIX
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Crisis
Pressing problems
Deadline-driven projects,
meetings, preparations
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Preparation
Prevention
Values clarification
Planning
Relationship building
True re-creation
Empowerment
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Not Important
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Interruptions, some
phone calls
Some mail, some reports
Some meetings
Many proximate,
pressing matters
Many popular activities
Trivia, busywork
Some phone calls
Time wasters
“Escape” activities
Irrelevant mail
Excessive TV
13. Habit 4
THINK WIN/WIN
Emotional Bank – A metaphor that describe the amount
of trust that’s been built up in a relationship and the
feeling of safeness that you
Six Major Deposits
Understanding the individuals
Attending to little things
Keeping commitments
Clarifying expectations
Showing personal integrity
Apologizing sincerely when you make a withdrawal
15. Habit 5
SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THEN
TO BE UNDERSTOOD
“The heart has its own reasons which
reason knows not of.”
16. Habit 5
SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THEN
TO BE UNDERSTOOD
Principles of Empathic Communication
Levels for Listening
•Ignoring
•Practice pretending
•Practice selective listening
•Attentive listening
•Empathetic listening
17. Seek first to understand- Empathic listening
•Gets inside another person’s frame of reference.
•Deep understanding of the problem first.
•10% -words ,30%- sound and 60%- body language
•It gives a person “Psychological Air”.
•It is diagnosing before prescribing
Then seek to be understood:•Requires high level of courage
•Equally critical in reaching win/win solutions.
18. Habit 6
Synergize
“I take as my guide the hope of a saint:
in crucial things, unity
in important things, diversity
in all things, generosity.”
19. Principles of Creative
Cooperation
Synergy takes place when two or more
people
produce more together than the sum of
what
they could have produces separately.
“The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts”
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23. Habit 7
Sharpen The Saw
“Sometimes when I consider what
tremendous
consequences come from little
things…
I am tempted to think…
there are no little things.”
24. Habit 7
Sharpen The Saw
Principal of balanced self-renewal
Four dimensions of renewal
Physical dimensional
Spiritual dimensional
Mental dimensional
Social/emotional dimensional
25. Conclusion
• You probably should read this book once a year because the
principles in it are eternal.
• They’re things that don’t change. As a matter of fact, this is
exactly what Stephen says in the book.
• He says that the foundation of growth and success is not about
personality and the things that change overnight.
• It’s about character and things that are stable and foundational.
He’s talking about truth here, in our opinion.
26. Why to read this book
• Does not target any specific reader group
• Conversely, fluidity of the language ensures that this is
easily read by anyone
• Demonstrates personal success with practical examples
of real life situations
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle