The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

By Stephen R. Covey.

hort summary of the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. It teaches about effectiveness and details the 7 habits every effective person should have.

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1- Be Proactive

1. Take initiatives
2. Control your life
3. Don’t be Reactive, and do not make you control by the outside world

2- Begin with the End in Mind

1. Set long-term objectives
2. Know your personal mission
3. Write your objectives on a paper

3- Put First Things First

1. Focus on what really matters to accomplish your long-term objectives
2. Important is the priority, Urgent come after

4- Think Win-Win

1. Have a Win-Win attitude
2. Always negotiate winning solutions for you and for the others
3. Aim to Win-Win relations on the long-term

5- Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

1. Communicate well with a person full of emotions
2. Everyone wants to be understood and be accepted by others
3. Emphatic listening: the foundation of a bidirectional communication
4. Be open to the ideas of others

6- Synergize

1. Working in team is a lot more productive than the sum of all your individual works

7- Sharpen the Saw

1. Aim to learn every day
2. Auto-educate yourself
3. Play sports, relax
4. Take care of yourself: body & mind