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The 7 habits of highly effective people, powerful lessons in personal change, Stephen R. Covey

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The 7 habits of highly effective people

Stephen R. Covey

powerful lessons in personal change

This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Stephen Covey's cherished classic commemorates the timeless wisdom of the 7 Habits. CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING BOOKS EVER WRITTEN, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has guided generations of readers for the last 25 years. Presidents and CEOs have kept it by their bedsides, students have underlined and studied passages from it, educators and parents have drawn from it, and individuals of all ages and occupations have used its step-by-step pathway to adapt to change and to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates

Foreword to the 25th anniversary edition / by Jim Collins -- A Cove family tribute to a highly effective father -- Foreword to the 2004 edition / By Stephen R. Covey -- Paradigms and principles. Inside-out -- The 7 habits : an overview -- Private victory. Habit 1 : be proactive : principles of personal vision -- Habit 2 : begin with the end in mind : principles of personal leadership -- Habit 3 : put first things first : principles of personal management -- Public victory : paradigms of interdependence. Habit 4 : think win/win : principles of interpersonal leadership -- Habit 5 : seek first to understand, then to be understood : principles of empathic communication -- Habit 6 : synergize : principles of creative cooperation -- Renewal. Habit 7 : sharpen the saw : priniciples of balanced self-renewal -- Inside-out again -- Afterword -- Appendix A. Possible perception flowing out of various centers -- Appendix B. A quadrant II day at the office -- A final interview with Stephen R. Covey -- Problem/opportunity index

Seven habits of highly effective people