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    The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
    The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
    The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
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    The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey

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    Stephen R. Covey passed away in July 2012, leaving behind an unmatched legacy with his teachings about leadership, time management, effectiveness, success, and even love and family. A multimillion-copy bestselling author of self-help and business classics, Dr. Covey strove to help readers recognize the key elements that would lead them to personal and professional effectiveness. His seminal work, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, transformed the way people act on their problems with a compelling, logical, and well-defined process. Indeed, many of the habits have been assimilated into everyday thinking and everyday conversation. For example, the expressions “win/win” and “first things first,” to name a few, have been incorporated into almost every business culture around the world.

    The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey is a compilation of Dr. Covey’s most insightful, inspiring teachings and sayings. His profound influence spread beyond businesses and individuals and was even integrated into governments, school systems, and many other institutions with great success. This book covers his most impactful topics: time management, success, leadership—including principle-centered leadership— all of the 7 Habits, love, and family. This powerful collection is a lasting tribute to the inspirational luminary that so many will miss.

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    Selected Wisdom from Stephen R. Covey:

    “How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”

    “Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.”

    “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,’ that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise.’”

    “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” “To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFree Press
    Release dateNov 13, 2012
    ISBN9781476725130
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    Stephen R. Covey

    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, business leader, and author. His books have sold more than 40 million copies (print, digital, and audio) in more than fifty languages throughout the world and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the 20th Century. After receiving an MBA from Harvard University and a doctorate from Brigham Young University, he became the cofounder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, the most trusted leadership company in the world.

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    • 5/5
      Excelente al máximo. Todos sus libros son maravillosos. Se los recomiendo.
    • 5/5
      Inspiring quotes in this compilation of thoughts and themes. Steven Covey is a remarkable examplar.
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      The Wisdom & Teachings of Stephen R. Covey is a cool collection of quotes and stories taken not only from his various books but also from speaking engagements, articles, interviews or other materials. The books is divided into chapters focusing on a key principle or segment of life such as Integrity, Leadership, Proactivity, etc.For those who have previously read any of Dr. Covey's work you will find yourself immediately reminded of the core principles and insights that his works teach. I found myself recognizing a number of the quotes from my readings of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and others. There are a lot of his works that I haven't read and I found quotes and stories from those books ringing just as true and poignant as those I already knew. For those who haven't read any of Dr. Covey's books or aren't familiar with his work you will likely find familiar advice resonating with you. In some cases this may be due to the fact that many of his principles and teachings have engrained themselves into society. In other cases the seeming familiarity will come because of the simple truthfulness and straightforward nature of the teachings. Sometimes the best advice is the advice that you already knew but didn't realize you knew or didn't know how to articulate.This book is a wonderful wealth of great teachings and inspiring motivation and thoughts. It would be impossible to boil down all of the great lessons, stories and thoughts from Dr. Covey into a single book but this book comes pretty close and is a great resource for wonderful advice and inspiring thoughts to help make your life better in many ways. This would certainly be a great introduction to Stephen R. Covey for those who don't know his material already and for those who do, this book is a quick batch of well organized notes and snippets of some of his most poignant teachings.****4 out of 5 stars

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    The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey - Stephen R. Covey

    THE

    PRINCIPLE

    OF

    ACCOUNTABILITY

    My seven-year-old son Stephen volunteered to take care of the yard.

    Look, Son, I said. See how our neighbor’s yard is green and clean? That’s what we’re after: green and clean. Now come look at our yard. See the mixed colors? That’s not it; that’s not green. Green and clean is what we want.

    Two weeks, two words: green and clean.

    It was Saturday. And he did nothing. Sunday . . . nothing. Monday . . . nothing. As I pulled out of the driveway on my way to work on Tuesday, I looked at the yellow, cluttered yard and the hot July sun on its way up.

    This was not acceptable. I was upset and disillusioned by his performance.

    I was ready to go back to gofer delegation. But what would happen to his internal commitment?

    So I faked a smile. Hi, Son. How’s it going?

    Fine! he returned.

    I bit my tongue and waited until after dinner. Then I said, Son, let’s do as we agreed. Let’s walk around the yard together and you can show me how it’s going in your stewardship.

    As we started out the door, his chin began to quiver. Tears welled up in his eyes, and by the time we got out to the middle of the yard, he was whimpering.

    It’s so hard, Dad!

    What’s so hard? I thought to myself. You haven’t done a single thing! But I knew what was hard—self-management, self-supervision. So I said, Is there anything I can do to help?

    Would you, Dad? he sniffed.

    What was our agreement?

    You said you’d help me if you had time.

    I have time.

    So he ran into the house and came back with two sacks. He handed me one. Will you pick that stuff up? He pointed to the garbage from Saturday night’s barbecue. It makes me sick!

    So I did. I did exactly what he asked me to do. And that was when he signed the agreement in his heart. It became his yard, his stewardship.

    He only asked for help two or three more times that entire summer. He took care of that yard. He kept it greener and cleaner than it had ever been under my stewardship.⁷

    Accountability breeds response-ability.³

    All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardship, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardship.⁴

    Holding people to the responsible course is not demeaning; it is affirming.⁷

    It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful, justifying coverup of the first mistake.⁷

    Never use the word promise unless you are totally prepared to pay whatever the price is to keep it.⁸

    Nothing destroys trust faster than making and breaking a promise. Conversely, nothing builds trust more than keeping a promise.⁸

    Sheltering people from natural consequences teaches irresponsibility.⁴

    The cause of almost all relationship difficulties is rooted in conflicting or ambiguous expectations around roles and goals.⁷

    The principle of stewardship is the principle of focusing on your own responsibility, on your own assignment, whatever that might be. You so focus on your duty as to magnify it—that is, to do more than is normally expected, to make more out of it than existed before. For instance, as a husband you focus on your responsibility of being a noble example to your children and a kind, understanding companion to your wife.⁴

    To improve any situation, you must improve. To change your wife, you must change. To change the attitude of your husband, you must change your attitude. To win more freedom, you must be more responsible, must exercise more discipline.⁴

    To raise obedient children, you and I as parents must be more obedient to certain laws and principles.⁴

    To rebuild broken-down relationships, we must first of all study our own hearts to discover our own responsibilities, our own faults. It is easy to stand at the sidelines and pick at others’ weaknesses. This process serves only to feed our own pride and to justify ourselves.⁴

    We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. . . . Self-awareness enables us to stand apart and examine even the way we see ourselves.⁷

    Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.⁷

    THE

    PRINCIPLE

    OF

    BALANCE

    Imagine you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree.

    What are you doing? you ask.

    Can’t you see? comes the impatient reply. I’m sawing down this tree.

    You look exhausted! you exclaim. How long have you been at it?

    Over five hours, he returns, "and I’m

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