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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
Stephen Covey
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American
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Businessman
October 24
, 1932 -
July 16
, 2012
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
Stephen Covey
Leadership
,
Choice
,
Position
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
Independence
,
Give
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
Trust
,
Principle
,
Ingredient
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
Priorities
,
Schedule
,
Your
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey
Life
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Change
,
Principles
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
Stephen Covey
Deep
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Empathy
,
Solving
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Stephen Covey
Strength
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Similarities
,
Lies
Listen with your eyes for feelings.
Stephen Covey
Eyes
,
Feelings
,
Your
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Stephen Covey
Understand
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Reply
,
Intent
Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
Stephen Covey
Inspire
,
Voice
,
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Accountability breeds response-ability.
Stephen Covey
Accountability
,
Breeds
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey
Success
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Efficiency
,
Ladder
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
Stephen Covey
Downward
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Everyone Else
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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Respect
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People
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Like
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
Leadership
,
Effective
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
Stephen Covey
Synergy
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Two
,
Hundred
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Stephen Covey
Adversity
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Through
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Main Thing
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Keep
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Main
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
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Achieve
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Fantasy
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Them
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
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Point Of View
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Like
,
Another
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
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Better
,
Synergy
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Than
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Stephen Covey
Understand
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Seek
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Then
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Stephen Covey
Crystal
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Line
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About
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
Stephen Covey
Constitution
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Solid
,
Which
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
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Doing
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Going
,
Getting
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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Important
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Always
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Most
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