"In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb. Do statistical quality control, variance analysis… The new Knowledge Work Age is based on a new paradigm.” Now if you did not question this paradigm, what should you do? Do more. What was the paradigm? The bad stuff is in the blood get it out. For instance, how did they attempt to heal people in the Middle Ages? Bloodletting. But if you want to make significant, quantum improvement, work on paradigms.
“If you want to make minor, incremental changes and improvements, work on practices, behaviour or attitude. "At the most elemental level, an organisation is nothing more or less than a relationship with a purpose.”
But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.” People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. “It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. If I don’t tell you the truth, you won’t trust me - that’s a natural law… even though values control behaviour, principles control the consequences of behaviour.” Gravity… if you drop something, gravity controls it. Values are subjective principles are objective. “Yet all of the enduring major religious traditions of the world are unified when it comes to basic underlying principles… principles like respect, honesty, kindness, integrity, service and fairness… To expand, a principle is a natural law like gravity. “There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.” “Leadership is a choice, not a position.” “Are we basically a product of nature or nurture? Neither. “The first choice we make each and every day is, ‘Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?” Certainly genes and culture often influence very powerfully, but they do not determine.” Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment). This power and freedom stand in stark contrast to the mind-set of victimism and culture of blame so prevalent in society today.
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“If you were to ask me what one subject, one theme, one point, seemed to have the greatest impact upon people – what one great idea resonated deeper in the soul than any other – if you were to ask what one ideal was most practical, most relevant, most timely, regardless of circumstances, I would answer quickly, without any reservation, and with the deepest conviction of my heart and soul, that we are free to choose. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand they listen with the intent to reply.” 30 Quotes for Business, Leadership & Life: Here are some of my favourite Stephen Covey quotes, drawn from two of his books: The 7 Habits and The 8th Habit. There is a reason why The 7 Habits is the highest-selling leadership / self-help book ever written, and why I keep coming back. However, I don’t think the very popularity of a thing should diminish its truth-value don't avoid it simply for fear of conforming to the mainstream. There’s an old quote by John Keats, “Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.”īecause of Covey’s immense popularity in business, and especially among management consultants, I have found that some people look at his ideas as clichéd, outdated or overused. But, in reality, deep down I knew that I was only starting to understand, to make connections to personal events, the book’s wisdom finally starting to penetrate my bubble. “I must really not have read this book properly at all,” I would think to myself each time. Then the next year, I came back again, and highlighted a few more. “That’s interesting, I must have missed these pages,” I thought in surprise. I picked it up again a few years later and found myself highlighting a couple of paragraphs this time around. I had no real business or life experience to use as a reference point. “What the hell was that about?” I thought, throwing it back onto the pile of books I’d bought intended to help me become master of the universe. The first time I read it I was 18, and I didn’t get it.
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