Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed. Stephen Covey More Quotes by Stephen Covey More Quotes From Stephen Covey Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air. Stephen Covey air giving people Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar. Stephen Covey honor people promise It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake. Stephen Covey mistake heart people Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments. Stephen Covey investment building long How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one. Stephen Covey watching-tv office life If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road. Stephen Covey down-the-road crisis management One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Stephen Covey definitions different insanity When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow. Stephen Covey want people thinking Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. Stephen Covey empowerment freedom decision Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. Stephen Covey honesty change life The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual. Stephen Covey spiritual roots world The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified. Stephen Covey keys motivational thinking Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people. Stephen Covey differences emotional teamwork Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru. Stephen Covey business success life If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most. Stephen Covey reading morning jobs The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you. Stephen Covey like-you voice people An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. Stephen Covey business success motivational Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?" Stephen Covey sacrifice motivational thinking You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are. Stephen Covey who-you-are world Life is a mission, not a career. Stephen Covey careers life-is motivational
