Principle Centred Leadership ebook

by Stephen R. Covey

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Learn the powerful principles Dr. Stephen R. Covey has taught to many of the world’s top executives and most influential leaders. Align your organization’s resources and structures to increase long-term performance and create a high-trust culture-the ultimate competitive advantage.

Principle-Centered Leadership book. Learn the powerful principles Stephen R. Covey has taught to many of the world's top executives and most influential leaders

Principle-Centered Leadership book. Covey has taught to many of the world's top executives and most influential leaders. Align your organization's resources and structures to increase long-term performance and create a high-trust culture - the ultimate competitive advantage.

In Principle-Centered Leadership, Covey outlines a long-term, inside-out .

In Principle-Centered Leadership, Covey outlines a long-term, inside-out approach to developing people and organizations. Dr. Covey is a renowned authority on leadership, a family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and vice chairman of FranklinCovey Co. He has a . from the University of Utah, an . from Harvard University, and a P. from Brigham Young University. Covey's insightful advice has helped millions. His book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold millions of copies and was named one of the most influential business books by Forbes magazine. Covey has authored numerous other works.

Principle-centered leadership. New York: Summit Books. A Brief Summary: In his book Principle-Centered Leadership, Stephen Covey encourages us to utilize four central principles (security, guidance, wisdom, power) as the core in our personal and professional lives. Covey believes that centering our lives on these principles is the key to developing rich internal power in our lives (p. 20). The book is divided into two sections: Section 1 addresses personal and inter-personal effectiveness, while Section 2 examines managerial and organizational development. The book is divided into two sections: Section 1 addresses personal and interpersonal effectiveness, while Section 2 examines managerial and organizational development.

Stephen R. Covey is an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational . His books Principle-Centered Leadership and First Things First are two of the bestselling business books of the decade

Stephen R. Covey is an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, founder of the former Covey Leadership Center, and cochairman of Franklin Covey Co. He has made teaching Principle-Centered Living and Principle-Centered Leadership his life's work. His books Principle-Centered Leadership and First Things First are two of the bestselling business books of the decade. Covey and other Franklin Covey authors, speakers, and spokespersons, all authorities on leadership and effectiveness, are consistently sought by radio and television stations, magazines, and newspapers throughout the world. From Stephen R. Covey, bestselling author of The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, comes the accompanying personal workbook that will help you further realize the power of this new habit. The world has changed dramatically since Covey's classic. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families.

Summary of Principle-Centered Leadership. Covey Stephen R. Covey is an internationally respected leadership authority. Simon & Schuster, 1990 ISBN: 9780671749101 Pages: 330. Looking for the book? We have the summary! Get the key insights in just 10 minutes. Covey is an internationally respected leadership authority, teacher, organizational consultant, founder of the former Covey Leadership Center, and co-chairman of Franklin Covey Co. He has made teaching Principle-Centered Living and Principle-Centered Leadership his life’s work. from Harvard and a doctorate from Brigham Young University. Covey demonstrates that the answer to these and other dilemmas is principle-centered leadership, a. . Covey demonstrates that the answer to these and other dilemmas is principle-centered leadership, a long-term, inside-out approach to developing people and organizations. The key to dealing with the challenges that face us today is to develop a principle-centered core within both ourselves and our organizations. Thomas R. Horton Chairman, American Management Association As if Covey's first book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, was not enough, his new book Principle-Centered Leadership is a real tour de force.

PRINCIPLE CENTRED LEADERSHIP will help solve these dilemmas - and many others: * how do we achieve a wise and renewing balance between work and family in the midst of constant pressures and crises? * how do we unleash the creativity, talent and energy of the vast majority of the work force, whose jobs neither require nor reward such resources? * how can we have a culture characterised by change, flexibility and continuous improvement and still maintain a sense of stability and security? * how do we create team spirit and harmony among people and departments that have been criticising and attacking each other for years? * how do we get people and culture aligned with strategy, so that everyone in an organisation is as committed to the strategy as those who formulated it?

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Author Stephen R. Covey’s ground-breaking book, Principle-Centered Leadership, is the higher-octave bookend of his earlier foundation book, the #1 International Best-Seller: The 7 Habits of Highly-Effective People. In fact, 7 Habits is the foundation upon which we all should learn how to problem-solve and relate to others.

Dr. Covey (a devout Mormon), who has his MBA from Harvard and a Doctor of Religious Education degree from BYU, practiced what he taught because both books are a distillation of Mormon values.

Dr. Covey was professionally influenced by Peter Drucker’s work – how people are organized across the spectra of business, government, and non-government sections of society. Drucker was a life-long proponent of ‘the knowledge/ life-long learner’, which Covey also espoused.

Stephen Covey was a professor at the Marriott School of Management at BYU and was also an assistant to the President of the university. Later, he went back to full-time academic duties as a professor of the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University in Logan.

My main copy of this book (I have several) has many dog-eared, red-pen marked passages that are meaningful to me; it also has many mini Post-It note pages that I use as marked tabs of important main topics, arranged both at the top and side of the book that I use for fast reference look-ups.

The front inside book cover lists 10 main themes in question format for all readers to consider. These deal with organizing and solving problems in behavioral leadership. The book has useful graphics to explain main ideas, but the amount of graphics is much less than those used in his 7 Habits book. As such, I would suggest having this book, too, for easy reference and a plethora of graphics, which also highlight leadership themes in managing change.

What is so ground-breaking about this book is that it casts a net of personal values ownership over the workplace environment, especially during tremendous change in the workforce. Principle-Centered Leadership stresses the value of strong, interpersonal work relationships, resting on a main saw in his 7 Habits book: “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

Problem-solving with members of any group is key. All members want to be valued, respected, and part of a winning team that produces good work, especially in business, because profit is the main driver for having the team working together and gainfully employed in the first place. This book gives concise examples that Dr. Covey uses from his personal experience in leading seminars in ‘Big Business’ environments, but he also uses personal anecdotes to describe how he deals with his own personal, organized unit: the family unit with his wife and family. He describes how his family unit encounters, deals with, and resolves problems. As head of his family, he respectfully utilizes a co-leadership role with his wife and engages his children, as team members, in the process, too.

Unlike the workforce environment, in which much time and effort has first been spent to map out what needs to be done and in a given time-frame, family problems can crop up out-of-the-blue and need to be resolved, many times, on the spot. He discusses this, too.

Note that the process of principle-centered leadership is time-consuming at first when team members are first learning the tools of the organizational behavior trade and utilizing them in meaningful ways. However, after these tools become automatic, they are some of the best ways to interact with others – at home, at work, during involvement with team sports or other endeavors. These interactions will allow members to sail through rough waters and ensure that all members come out safely at the other side after having mastered how to set up a major saw: “Start with the end in mind.”

This saw is exactly what educators learn to do to write lesson plans and academic curricula: 1. listing the specific behavioral outcomes of learning (the desired behavior at the end) first and then 2. listing the specific instructional objectives for students to be able to exhibit this behavior (the ‘how to get to the desired behavior’ at the beginning and throughout the plan). Both of these concepts are created before a full lesson plan is written to ensure that the outcomes are attained. In other words, the outcome and the objectives drive the plan. This process is also a way for educators and others to pre-think possible problems that could crop up along the way and be ready for them if and when they do.

Those of us educators who are professionally licensed with state teaching certificates, who have graduated from an accredited university College of Education, have been taught how to do this and have done student teaching in classes under the wing of a master teacher/ mentor before we could even step one foot into a classroom.

This book will become a well-utilized staple in your own personal library. Read it, buy copies for others, and have discussions with them about being principled in dealing with others. Note that most of us as adults are like Covey: leaders/ co-leaders of the family and leaders/ non-leaders at work.

I thoroughly recommend this book for all people to learn how to be principled in their dealings with others at work, at home, and at play. Covey’s earlier book, the 7 Habits is a pre-cursor for this book, and I recommend that people buy that, too and read it before they read this book or at least use it as a reference to this one. This book is one of the books that I buy in bulk and pass out to teams of people in many of the groups of which I am a member, so that we all have a common framework for getting work done, in time to make corrections/ edits (before publication), and in a mutually-respectful and professional way, so that all team members benefit from the combined work output. It is especially valuable for whomever is in a leadership position in the group.

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Some reviewers bemoan each and every Covey release, complaining that it is re-hashed material. These critics obviously are missing the whole "principles" point. Principles won't change from publication to publication.

If you want to feel rooted and comfortable making organizational decisions, the author points out that this must be done in the context of human needs at the fore. Be prepared to re-invent yourself, and use this book as your guide. I use the word "organizational" so that readers of this review don't misconstrue it as a business book. An organization is described in the text as a group of two or more with a common purpose: read - family, marriage, friendship, school, etc.

Be prepared to review and reflect iteratively, as many of the points made are difficult to grasp on the first pass. This difficulty is likely caused by trying to relate to the material from a faulty and deep-rooted paradigm - I was guilty - , but persevere - it it well worth it in the end.

If you are looking for a "7-Habits" and "Principle-Centered Leadership" rolled into one book, "The Eighth Habit' may be your best bet. I strongly recommend all three in sequence.

Covey is simply the best, if you are prepared to do the hard work... on yourself.

Dave Day

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FRAUD ALERT - when it says "unabridged" this does not mean that the entire "Principle-Centered Leadership" book is read by Covey. What you get is an unabridged (maybe) recording of one of his seminars on the topic of Principle-Centered Leadership. Having said that, the recording is good and covers a host of topics. It would be a good supplemental source to go with the book, but it is NOT sufficient on its own - in regards to an understanding of the topics covered in the book.

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this is GOLD....a must reading for anyone thinking of a leadership position. I require this for all my students taking my leadership class. Wish Covey was still with us...our country could really use him.

Wenes

I think the author makes some great points, but towards the end of the book I feel he is pontificating more than he is teaching or leading.

Bumand

The most compleate and thorough book about leadership that i have read; concentrated entirely in principles.

Sennnel

am a devotee of Stephen Covey and was moved when I listened to his Principle Centered Leadership on tape various years ago. I felt that his principles, as articulated in this tape version, matched my beliefs of principle centered values. Principle Centered Leadership is now available on CDs and I have purchased this new version and given it to subordinates and peers as a way of establishing a common value centered understanding of each other. I had not listened to the CD version until recently. I must say that I was very disappointed with this version. It is edited significantly from the tape verion to the point that I had difficulty understanding and following the principles this conceptual model spouses. The people I had given the CDs to had diffulty understanding the concepts and felt that it was arduous to listen to the CDs. I am sorry because I believe that the principles are sound but cannot longer support the CD version.