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The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness into Greatness: Miniature Edition
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By Stephen R. Covey, author of the 15 million copy bestseller 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – the name of one of the 25 most influential Americans by Time magazine – The 8th Habit, is a book, the powerful insights that keeps us the challenge into You can find our voice & inspire others into find them.
This mini version is from the original The 8th Habit, which already culled nearly 200,000 copies sold since its release November 2004. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People guided individuals into effectively improve their lives & their organizations. The 8th Habit takes it a step further & inspires us into thrive, into innovate & into lead into the effectiveness & move up in size.
If you have not read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, I suggest you read that one before this book.
Dr. Covey obviously pulled out all the stops in trying this book as helpful as possible in order to make his readers. The book contains summaries of the material in his other books, many stories repeated from those books, reconciles the material with the most business book best sellers in recent years, contains a DVD full of inspiring videos, provides references to many free materials on his Web site has extensive facilities and contains many thoughtful sections on questions and answers. As a result, the book is like an encyclopedia of his teachings. . . not as the simple communication that is so beautiful in his other books. I suspect that Dr. Covey changed ghostwriters for this one (at least I assume that the other books were ghostwritten because they avoid using the cumbersome style of communication, Dr. Covey in person).
< , br /> So what is The 8th Habit? Allow me to paraphrase. It will be faster, way. They act with integrity as an individual and help others to do the same.
In Covey-speak, it is the overlap of personal greatness (applying the 7 habits in the forms of vision, discipline , passion and conscience), variable (use the 4 Roles of Leadership (modeling the 7 habits, path finding, aligning and empowering) and organizational size (in a vision, mission and values, clarity, commitment, translation, to create synergies, thereby and accountability). See Figure 3 on page 280 say 14th for the simplest expression of The 8th Habit Covey-in.
Can a book from this point? Well, if you many examples taken, you can… Dr. Covey who did. But the point is worth about a magazine article. Most people will come to this realization when they see the entire book’s concepts summarized in chapters 14 and 15, if you want to check out this book, read these two chapters and see if you need more at this time.
Why do millions of people read his books? Now, the previous beautifully written. This is not. All of his books show unadulterated respect for the reader and the belief in the reader an almost unlimited potential for improvement. It is inspiring to read someone high opinion of you. Dr. Covey obviously cares, that we live moral and positive lives. He is a kind of secular priests expression of moral values that most will agree. we would all like to be working for Dr. Covey? Sure!
How well to translate this book at work? It is a hard row to stand. You can use a company that is good in the 8th Habit, but not build the necessary skills to succeed with using the 8th Habit. For this book is difficult on concepts… and light on the practical details. Dr. Covey starts at about 100,000 feet in the air with his abstract thinking and discussions, and rarely gets closer. So, you think of The 8th Habit book as helpful… but not sufficient in and of itself… for creating superior performance. Maybe it will work better if you to Dr. Covey’s firm to help you (the deal set up plenty in the book).
< br /> Dr. Covey humbly points out that its conclusions on how to deal with the problems of poor communication, lousy alignment, misunderstandings will be what to do next, lacks of tools and training, and dumbed-down workplaces.. . is not supported by research (other than anecdotes from his clients to support) that this actually works better. But you will agree, I am sure that failure would also feel much better in such an organization. It is therefore very humanistic, which is a good thing.
Only a few are with the tip in this book do not agree, and most wonder what this work of Dr. Covey Principle Centered Leadership adds. “Not very much” is my impression.
I suspect that this book would work much better if the material had been simplified and added to the 7 habits book.. . and renamed as “The 8 Habits of Highly Effective People”.
God bless you, Dr. Covey! Keep inspiring us to be our best!
Rating: 5.3
As with most of his earlier writings, Dr. Covey to provide a large number and has to motivate an excellent job and they are also presenting in a way that one can simply apply to themselves. Unfortunately, unlike his other books, this one was a bit difficult to get through. The mixture of inspirational content (quotes and motivational passages), the repetition of concepts, the mapping of its concepts to the presentations of others in the leadership and community self-help, and just overall pace has to make up to this far more than I have preferred. I would not recommend it to anybody who is not a speed reader.
Rating: 5.4
If I get my hands on a pre-release copy of this book, I expected to enjoy it, simply because his classic, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has such a strong influence on my personal and professional life. But in no way, I was ready for this new book for so inspiring and riviting, and is clear and understandable to your current challenges and desires for my life.
With The 8th Habit, Covey not only recognizes the ongoing need to be effective in today’s world, but puts his finger on the human hunger for meaning, contribution, and the meaning – what he calls “greatness” – and then provides a roadmap for individuals and organizations in order to achieve it.
you know it’s one thing to identify, because his research, not only discouraged as disengaged, frustrated, and most people are straight jacket in the organizations, for which they work, but it’s another to look at how we actually implement the type to give positive change we want in our lives, our homes, and in the teams and organizations, we are part.
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I love and was moved by the personal examples and experiences Covey share. It is another great blend principles and practical, inspiring stories. I also love how the focus is not centered only on themselves. Yes, we can and must “for our voice,” but the same and perhaps greater key to life in “inspiring others to find their voice.” That is the challenge of leadership – whether it will work with your children or allow you to give.
I think this may very well Covey’s most important and significant work – an idea whose time has come is.
Rating: 5.5
I bought this book after reading a review that the author must have been inspired in his discovery of his 8th Habit may, when faced with a crisis in his Mormon faith, with the publication of the book “Losing a Lost Tribe,” the written was suggested by a bishop, the Mormons, such as DNA traces of the Book of Mormon describes refuted. Covey says nothing about such a personal crisis in this book, but writes his discovery of this new habit to research evidence discovered about human behavior.
“The 8th Habit” describes how to make your own to find voice and then how to inspire others to do the same. Reading this book was inspiring and has continued to encourage me find my own voice, so I have the feeling I got a good return on my investment. There are many examples of people through effective and individualized who engage others to do the same thing succeed. There are also examples of those who do not, and how the failure ultimately block their greatest potential for success.
The author gives the reader an additional powerful enrichment tool his life to with this new book, but I do not feel that “The 8th Habit” was as strong as “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. I found myself losing interest and skipping to the later chapters that seemed to come more to the point. Some of the conclusions seem overly simplistic. However, by and large, the concept makes sense. Unfortunately, this book lacks the punch and conciseness of the former volume. He left me with the impression that it is like a movie sequel written to take advantage of the authors of past successful.
Rating: 5.2
I would agree with many of the posts here. Seven Habits yesterday, read it many years ago. This one. . . is. . . only. . . a little bit. . . slowly. . . and continues. . . and so on. I glazed over and you have not read the last piece. I’m also tired of the repetition – the book is long, as it is, so why add in stories from other books? It seemed unnecessary. Anyway, I admire his intentions.
Rating: 5.3