7_Habits_Of_Highly_Effective_People

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was written by Stephen R. Covey in 1989. This book has been on the National Best Seller list for over 200 weeks. Many people have attended Covey’s seminars on the subject. Many companies have required top executives to read this book including AT & T, Dow Chemical, Ford, Deloitte and Touche, Marriott, Xerox and Ritz Carlton Hotels. This book proposes that there are seven habits that can be learned to improve one’s personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Covey describes a habit as “the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire.” Knowledge would represent the “what to do”, skill the “how to do”, and desire the “want to do”. In order to create a habit in our lives, we must have all three. Habits 1, 2, and 3 relate to Private Victory with habit 4, 5, and 6 relating to Public Victories and Habit 7 being involved with Renewal. Habit one is to be proactive. This habit says that as human beings we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We create our habit, listening, understand, covey, people, habits, understood, through, one, must, first, create, book, synergy, saw, proactive, person, lives, listen, life, level, effective, time, third, things, sharpening, requires, rather, personal, mind, knowledge, highly, frame, covey’s, concern