Covey

Covey The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Dr. Stephen R. Covey published a book that was all the rage a few years ago. His book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People outline seven traits found in all effective people. In order to see these habits one must undergo a paradigm shift, which is seeing through the eyes of others. A perfect example of a paradigm shift is the story of a subway ride. Covey told the lecture group to “Picture yourself on a quiet subway ride home. Everyone is quiet there are several people sleeping while others are reading. At the next stop a man gets on with some children. The children are very disruptive throwing things running into people, just kids behaving rottenly. You turn and say to the man ‘your children are being disruptive maybe you could do something to control them.’ Then the man turns and says ‘we just came from the hospital their mother just died and I guess they don’t know how to handle it, neither do I.’ and right away you feel bad for the man. Most people would want to know what they could do to covey, one, people, habit, time, way, says, person, man, character, personality, habits, while, story, order, must, make, just, first, effective, determinism, two, three, things, should, seven, response, next, jungle, group, everyone, because, about, wrong, very, understood, tells, synergy, starts, something, say, saw, said, paradigm, own, others, missouri, mighty, matrix, making