About the Author
Recognized as one of Time magazine’s twenty-five most influential Americans, Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) was an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author. His books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in thirty-eight languages, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. After receiving an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University, he became the co-founder and vice-chairman of FranklinCovey, a leading global training firm.
Sean Covey is the President of FranklinCovey Education and the original architect of the 4 Disciplines methodology. A Harvard MBA and former Brigham Young University quarterback, Sean is also a New York Times bestselling author and has written numerous books, including The Leader in Me and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
Sean Covey is the President of FranklinCovey Education and the original architect of the 4 Disciplines methodology. A Harvard MBA and former Brigham Young University quarterback, Sean is also a New York Times bestselling author and has written numerous books, including The Leader in Me and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.
Summary of Whole Book Divided into 7 habits
The 7 Habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work!
With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 Habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders.
They include:
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Be Proactive is about taking importance for your life. You can’t carry blaming everything on your parents or grandparents. Proactive people recognize that they are “response-able.” They don’t blame genetics, circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their habits. They know they choose their habits. Reactive people, on the other
Instead of reacting to or worrying about conditions over which they have little or no control, proactive people focus their time and energy on things they can control. The problems, challenges, and opportunities we face fall into two areas–Circle of Concern and Circle of Influence.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 2 is based on imagination–the eligibility to envision in your mind what you cannot at present see with your eyes. It is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There is a mental (first) conception and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don’t make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.
Habit 3: Put First Things First
It happens day in and day out, moment-by-moment. It behaves with many of the questions addressed in the field of time management. But that’s not all it’s about. Habit 3 is about life management as well–your purpose, values, roles, and preference. What are “first things?” First things are those things you, personally, find of most worth. If you put first things first, you are controlling and managing time and events according to the personal preference you established in Habit 2.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Think Win-Win isn’t about being nice, nor is it a quick-fix technique. It is a character-based code for human communication and participation.
A person that approaches collision with a win-win attitude possesses three vital character traits:
1- Integrity: sticking with your right feelings, values, and promise
2- Maturity: expressing your ideas and feelings with courage and reflection for the ideas and feelings of others
3- Abundance Mentality: believing there is prosperity for everyone
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
The conversation is the most important skill in life. You spend lots of time learning how to read and write, and learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training have you had that active you to listen so you really, deeply get the point of another human being? Probably none, right?
Because you so often listen autobiographically, you tend to respond in one of four ways:
Evaluating: You suppose and then either agree or disagree.
Probing: You ask questions from your own frame of hint
Advising: You give points, advice, and solutions to problems.
Interpreting: You judge others’ motives and behaviors based on your own experiences.
Habit 6: Synergize
Synergize is the habit of innovative cooperation. It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the experience of finding new solutions to previous problems. But it doesn’t just happen on its own. It’s a process, and through that process, people bring all their personal exposure and expertise to the table. Together, they can produce far better results than they could individually. Synergy lets us discover jointly things we are much less likely to discover by ourselves. It is the idea that the whole is better than the sum of the parts. One plus one equals three, or six, or sixty–you name it.
When people begin to collaborate together genuinely, and they’re open to each other’s influence, they begin to gain new observations. The ability to invent new approaches is increased exponentially because of differences.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have–you. It means having a benefits program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. Here are some examples of activities:
Physical: Beneficial eating, exercising, and relaxing
Social/Emotional: Making social and beneficial connections with others
Mental: Learning, reading, writing, and teaching
Spiritual: Spending time in nature, expanding spiritual self through self-examination, music, art, prayer, or service.
As you improve yourself in each of the four areas, you create advancement and change in your life. Sharpen the Saw keeps you fresh so you can continue to practice the other six habits. You increase your ability to produce and handle the challenges around you. Without this improvement, the body becomes weak, the mind mechanical, the emotions raw, the spirit insensitive, and the person selfish. Not a pretty picture, is it?
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