“There are three constants in life… change, choice, and principles.”<\/p>\n
– Stephen R. Covey<\/p>\n
“If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling”<\/p>\n
– Stephen R. Covey<\/p>\n
Table of Contents<\/p>\n
Preface: A Principle-Centered Approach ….. 13
\nSection 1: PERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
\nIntroduction to Section 1 ….. 29
\nChapter I Characteristics of Principle-Centered Leaders ….. 33
\nChapter 2 Seven Habits Revisited ….. 40
\nChapter 3 Three Resolutions ….. 48
\nChapter 4 Primary Greatness ….. 57
\nChapter 5 A Break with the Past ….. 67
\nChapter 6 Six Days of Creation ….. 79
\nChapter 7 Seven Deadly Sins ….. 87
\nChapter 8 Moral Compassing ….. 94
\nChapter 9 Principle-Centered Power ….. 101
\nChapter 10 Clearing Communication Lines ….. 109
\nChapter 11 Thirty Methods of Influence ….. 119
\nChapter 12 Eight Ways to Enrich Marriage and Family Relationships 130
\nChapter 13 Making Champions of Your Children ….. 144
\nSECTION 2: MANAGERIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
\nIntroduction to Section 2 ….. 153
\nChapter 14 Abundance Managers ….. 157
\nChapter 15 Seven Chronic Problems ….. 163
\nChapter 16 Shifting Your Management Paradigm ….. 173
\nChapter 17 Advantages of the PCL Paradigm ….. 181
\nChapter 18 Six Conditions of Empowerment ….. 190
\nChapter 19 Managing Expectations ….. 202
\nChapter 20 Organizational Control Versus Self-Supervision ….. 210
\nChapter 21 Involving People in the Problem ….. 217
\nChapter 22 Using Stakeholder Information Systems ….. 224
\nChapter 23 Completed Staff Work ….. 236
\nChapter 24 Manage from the Left, Lead from the Right ….. 244
\nChapter 25 Principles of Total Quality ….. 250
\nChapter 26 Total Quality Leadership ….. 261
\nChapter 27 Seven Habits and Deming’s 14 Points ….. 267
\nChapter 28 Transforming a Swamp into an Oasis ….. 278
\nChapter 29 Corporate Constitutions ….. 288
\nChapter 30 Universal Mission Statement ….. 295
\nChapter 31 Principle-Centered Learning Environments ….. 302
\nEpilogue: Fishing the Stream ….. 313
\nA Personal Note ….. 323
\nAcknowledgments ….. 325
\nIndex ….. 327<\/p>\n
12 Effective Leadership Roles<\/p>\n
* Create an inspiring vision, establish shared values, give direction and set stretch goals…<\/p>\n
Principles versus Practices<\/p>\n
* Practices – what to do’s – are specific activities or actions that work in one circumstance but not necessary in another.
\n* 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.<\/p>\n
Leading by Principles versus Leading by Practices<\/p>\n
* 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
\n* 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<\/p>\n
Principles-Centered Leadership<\/p>\n
Four Levels of Practicing<\/p>\n
Principles-centered leadership is practiced from the inside out on four levels:<\/p>\n
1. Personal: your relationships with yourself
\n2. Interpersonal: your relationships and interactions with others<\/p>\n
Your People Skills 360<\/p>\n
1. Managerial: your responsibility to get a job done with others
\n2. Organizational: your need to organize people
\n– to recruit them, train them, compensate them, build teams, solve problems, and create aligned structure, strategy and systems<\/p>\n
The 4 E’s of Leadership<\/p>\n
Courage – the Key To Leadership<\/p>\n
Empathy<\/p>\n
The Leader Is the Best, When…<\/p>\n
Principle-Centered Leaders Defined<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Major Leadership Schools: Correlation<\/p>\n
New Paradigm<\/p>\n
Responding to classic dilemmas of modern living, principle-centered leadership presents a new way of thinking that is to help you to:<\/p>\n
* achieve and maintain a wise and renewing balance between work and family, personal and professional ambitions, in the middle of constant crises and pressures<\/p>\n
Life-Business Synergy<\/p>\n
* adhere to simplicity in the thick of increasing complexity
\n* 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
\n* look at human weaknesses with genuine compassion and understanding rather than accusation and self-justification
\n* 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
\n* get empowered (and empower other people) with confidence and competence to solve problems and seize opportunities\u00a0 –\u00a0 without being or fearing loose cannons<\/p>\n
Entrepreneurial Leader: 4 Specific Attributes<\/p>\n
* encourage the desire to change and improve without creating more pain from the gain
\n* become a contributing member of a complementary team based on mutual respect and the valuing of diversity and pluralism
\n* know where to start, when and how to recharge your batteries to maintain momentum for learning, growing and improving.<\/p>\n
Inspirational Leader: 10 Roles<\/p>\n
18 Leadership Lessons from Colin Powell<\/p>\n
* 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.
\n* 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<\/p>\n
Develop a Clear Vision<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
Description and Reviews
\nFrom The Publisher:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
From Library Journal:
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
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\nAbout the Author<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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