“There are three constants in life… change, choice, and principles.”
– Stephen R. Covey
“If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling”
– Stephen R. Covey
Table of Contents
Preface: A Principle-Centered Approach ….. 13
Section 1: PERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Introduction to Section 1 ….. 29
Chapter I Characteristics of Principle-Centered Leaders ….. 33
Chapter 2 Seven Habits Revisited ….. 40
Chapter 3 Three Resolutions ….. 48
Chapter 4 Primary Greatness ….. 57
Chapter 5 A Break with the Past ….. 67
Chapter 6 Six Days of Creation ….. 79
Chapter 7 Seven Deadly Sins ….. 87
Chapter 8 Moral Compassing ….. 94
Chapter 9 Principle-Centered Power ….. 101
Chapter 10 Clearing Communication Lines ….. 109
Chapter 11 Thirty Methods of Influence ….. 119
Chapter 12 Eight Ways to Enrich Marriage and Family Relationships 130
Chapter 13 Making Champions of Your Children ….. 144
SECTION 2: MANAGERIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction to Section 2 ….. 153
Chapter 14 Abundance Managers ….. 157
Chapter 15 Seven Chronic Problems ….. 163
Chapter 16 Shifting Your Management Paradigm ….. 173
Chapter 17 Advantages of the PCL Paradigm ….. 181
Chapter 18 Six Conditions of Empowerment ….. 190
Chapter 19 Managing Expectations ….. 202
Chapter 20 Organizational Control Versus Self-Supervision ….. 210
Chapter 21 Involving People in the Problem ….. 217
Chapter 22 Using Stakeholder Information Systems ….. 224
Chapter 23 Completed Staff Work ….. 236
Chapter 24 Manage from the Left, Lead from the Right ….. 244
Chapter 25 Principles of Total Quality ….. 250
Chapter 26 Total Quality Leadership ….. 261
Chapter 27 Seven Habits and Deming’s 14 Points ….. 267
Chapter 28 Transforming a Swamp into an Oasis ….. 278
Chapter 29 Corporate Constitutions ….. 288
Chapter 30 Universal Mission Statement ….. 295
Chapter 31 Principle-Centered Learning Environments ….. 302
Epilogue: Fishing the Stream ….. 313
A Personal Note ….. 323
Acknowledgments ….. 325
Index ….. 327
12 Effective Leadership Roles
* Create an inspiring vision, establish shared values, give direction and set stretch goals…
Principles versus Practices
* Practices – what to do’s – are specific activities or actions that work in one circumstance but not necessary in another.
* Principles – why to do’s – have universal application; when principles are internalized into habits, they empower people to create a wide variety of practices to deal with different situations.
Leading by Principles versus Leading by Practices
* Leading by Practices: all the judgment and wisdom is provided in the form or rules and regulations; employees don’t have to be the experts and don’t have to exercise judgment
* Leading by Principles: requires a different type of and more training, but the payoff is more expertise, creativity, and shared responsibility at all levels of the organization
Principles-Centered Leadership
Four Levels of Practicing
Principles-centered leadership is practiced from the inside out on four levels:
1. Personal: your relationships with yourself
2. Interpersonal: your relationships and interactions with others
Your People Skills 360
1. Managerial: your responsibility to get a job done with others
2. Organizational: your need to organize people
– to recruit them, train them, compensate them, build teams, solve problems, and create aligned structure, strategy and systems
The 4 E’s of Leadership
Courage – the Key To Leadership
Empathy
The Leader Is the Best, When…
Principle-Centered Leaders Defined
Principle-centered leaders are men and women of character who work on the basis of natural principles and build those principles into the center of their lives, into the center of their relationships with others, into the center of their agreements and contracts, into their management processes, and into their mission statements.
Major Leadership Schools: Correlation
New Paradigm
Responding to classic dilemmas of modern living, principle-centered leadership presents a new way of thinking that is to help you to:
* achieve and maintain a wise and renewing balance between work and family, personal and professional ambitions, in the middle of constant crises and pressures
Life-Business Synergy
* adhere to simplicity in the thick of increasing complexity
* maintain a sense of direction in today’s wilderness, where well-developed road maps (strategies and plans) are rendered useless by rapid change that often hits you from the blind side
* look at human weaknesses with genuine compassion and understanding rather than accusation and self-justification
* replace prejudice (the tendency to prejudge and categorize people in order to manipulate them) with a sense of reverence and discovery in order to promote learning, achievement, and excellence in people
* get empowered (and empower other people) with confidence and competence to solve problems and seize opportunities – without being or fearing loose cannons
Entrepreneurial Leader: 4 Specific Attributes
* encourage the desire to change and improve without creating more pain from the gain
* become a contributing member of a complementary team based on mutual respect and the valuing of diversity and pluralism
* know where to start, when and how to recharge your batteries to maintain momentum for learning, growing and improving.
Inspirational Leader: 10 Roles
18 Leadership Lessons from Colin Powell
* By treating everyone equally “nicely” regardless of their contributions, you’ll simply ensure that the only people you’ll wind up angering are the most creative and productive people in the organization.
* Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. In well-run organizations, titles are also pretty meaningless. But titles mean little in terms of real power, which is the capacity to influence and inspire…. More
Develop a Clear Vision
The one quality that all leaders have in common is that they have a clear and exciting vision for the future. This is something that only the leader can do. Only the leader can think about the future and plan for the future each day… More
Description and Reviews
From The Publisher:
How do we as individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve falling so short in real results despite the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being spent on them? How do we unleash the creativity, talent, and energy within ourselves and others in the midst of pressure? Is it realistic to believe that balance among personal, family, and professional life is possible? Stephen R. Covey demonstrates that the answer to these and other dilemmas is Principle-Centered Leadership, a long-term, inside-out approach to developing people and organizations. The key to dealing with the challenges that face us today is the recognition of a principle-centered core within both ourselves and our organizations. Dr. Covey offers insights and guidelines that can help you apply these principles both at work and at home – leading not just to a new understanding of how to increase quality and productivity, but also to a new appreciation of the importance of building personal and professional relationships in order to enjoy a more balanced, more rewarding, more effective life.
From Library Journal:
The great “angst” of life has seemingly gripped us all, and there seems to be no limit to the number of writers offering answers to the great perplexities of life. Covey, however, is the North Star in this field. Following his successful Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (S. & S., 1989), Covey now responds to the particular challenges of business leaders by applying his natural laws, or principles, of life to organizations. Covey explains these laws (security, guidance, wisdom, and power), and discusses how seven-habits practice and focus on these principles will result in personal and organizational transformation. He reminds us that personal and organizational success is hard work, requires unwavering commitment and long-term perspective, and is achievable only if we are prepared for a complete paradigm shift in our perspective. Without hesitation, strongly recommended for all management collections.– Dale Farris, Groves, Tex.
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About the Author
Stephen R. Covey is a renowned authority on leadership, a family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and vice chairman of FranklinCovey Co. The author of several acclaimed books, he has also received numerous honors and awards, including being named one of Time magazine’s twenty-five most influential Americans. Covey lives with his wife, Sandra, and their family in the Rocky Mountains of Utah.
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