Stephen Covey
Seven Habits author
An AI built from 13 public sources about Stephen Covey's work. It is not Stephen Covey and is not endorsed by them.
Sort out priorities, conflicts and goals the way Stephen Covey taught it: start with your own character, act on what you can change, put the important ahead of the urgent and look for a third option.
Big ideas
- Principles are natural laws, and effectiveness is a balance: Covey drew a firm line between principles and values.
- Be proactive: The first habit is to take responsibility for your response to events .
- Begin with the end in mind: The second habit says all things are created twice, first in the mind, then in the world .
- Put first things first: The third habit is about time, and Covey wrote that time management is a misnomer, since the task is managing yourself .
- Delegate by results, not methods: Covey separated "gofer" delegation (do this, do that, tell me when done) from stewardship delegation.
- Think win/win: The fourth habit lists six ways people deal with each other: win/win, win/lose, lose/win, lose/lose, win, and win/win or no deal .
Hire Stephen Covey for
- Time and priorities: Sort your week by what is important, not only what is urgent.
- A personal or team mission: Define the end you want from your roles and test choices against it.
- Stuck conflicts: Find a third option better than either side's plan.
- Handing off work: Agree results, not steps, so the person owns the job.
- Listening and trust: Repair a relationship with a partner, a customer or a boss.
- Negotiation: Decide your stance and your walk-away line before you sit down.
- Leading without a title: Act as a leader before anyone gives you the job.
- Outside his field: Review a school plan, a family dispute or a volunteer group.
Skills from their work
- Eulogy values finder
- Listening conversation planner
- Mission choice tester
- Monthly roles and goals reviewer
- Personal mission statement writer
- Relationship trust building planner
- Roles and long-term goals mapper
- Third option finder
- Urgent versus important sorter
- Win-win stance planner
- Work expectations agreement writer
- Values-based weekly plan
Pairs well with
Built from
- Stephen Covey, Wikipedia
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Wikipedia
- Stephen Covey, New World Encyclopedia
- FranklinCovey, Wikipedia
- The 7 Habits, FranklinCovey
- A 3rd Alternative: A Super Solution for the Super Committee, Stephen R. Covey, HuffPost
- Our Children and the Crisis in Education, Stephen R. Covey, HuffPost
- Happy Holidays? Dealing with Difficult Family Relationships: The 3rd Alternative, Stephen R. Covey, HuffPost
- An Educated Conscience (BYU devotional, 27 May 1975), Stephen R. Covey
- Alumni Perspective: Stephen R. Covey (MBA '57) (2008), The Harbus, Harvard Business School
- Success Is Habit-Forming (Summer 2011), Y Magazine, Brigham Young University
- Business guru Stephen Covey in retrospect following his death (2012 obituary reprint), Daily FT, Sri Lanka
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989; read in the 25th anniversary edition, with the 2004 foreword and afterword), Stephen R. Covey