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Loading... The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatnessby Stephen R. Covey
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Never managed to finish this, I think it might be self published, no publisher could ever get through it to decide it was worth publishing. A typical management speak book, some gems and insights but filled with so much other unneccesary gumpf. Give it a miss and read Dickens instead! (  ) caz4562000 | Sep 25, 2009 |  -Between stimulus and response there is a space. Our power resides in that space. The greater the space, the greater our power and choice. -Moral authority makes formal authority works. Formal authority without moral authority cannot last. -All things are created twice: mentally and physically. (  ) amadouwane | Feb 7, 2009 | Good book but not great, repetitive and much larger than needed. Not as important as the 7 habits although it works to take those lessons to others. (  ) mantooth | Sep 20, 2008 | I like everything in this book and always find Covey inspiring, genuine, and profound. Still, the 8th habit doesn't work for me quite like the original 7. I think it's because there is so much more behind it. Covey builds a lot of context around the habit: Find your voice, then inspire others to find their voice." He reveals a whole methodology for doing this, based on a quartet of concepts: Body, Mind, Heart, and Spirit. These areas have analogous ideas in the area of leadership, namely, Modeling, Pathfinding, Aligning, and Empowering. (  ) jpsnow | Aug 22, 2008 | This audiobook seemed like it wasn't really meant for the audiobook format. Too much of it involved lists and logical sequences that don't translate (for me at least) into the spoken word. Too borrow a term I learned from "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", it was very Aristotlean. ( ) dvf1976 | Apr 24, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0684846659, Hardcover)In the more than fifteen years since its publication, the classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon with over fifteen million copies sold. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families, and, most important, as individuals have dramatically improved their lives and organisations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey's classic book.The world, though, is a vastly changed place. The challenges and complexity we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives, and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude. Being effective as individuals and organisations is no longer merely an option survival in today's world requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the New Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness. The call of this new era in human history is for greatness; it's for fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution. Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today's new reality requires a sea change in thinking: a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set in short, a whole new habit. The crucial challenge of our world today is this: to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs. It is what Covey calls the 8th Habit. So many people feel frustrated, discouraged, unappreciated, and undervalued with little or no sense of voice or unique contribution. The 8th Habit is the answer to the soul's yearning for greatness, the organisation's imperative for significance and superior results, and humanity's search for its voice. Profound, compelling, and stunningly timely, this groundbreaking new book of next-level thinking gives a clear way to finally tap the limitless value-creation promise of the Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit shows how to solve such common dilemmas as People want peace of mind and good relationships, but also want to keep their lifestyle and habits. Relationships are built on trust, but most people think more in terms of me my wants, my needs, my rights. Management wants more for less; employees want more of what's in it for me for less time and effort. Businesses are run by the economic rules of the marketplace; organisations are run by the cultural rules of the workplace. Society operates by its dominant social values, but must live with the consequences of the inviolable operation of natural laws and principles. Covey's new book will transform the way we think about ourselves and our purpose in life, about our organisations, and about humankind. Just as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People helped us focus on effectiveness, The 8th Habit shows us the way to greatness. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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