Stephen Covey on Leadership

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"The call and need of a new era is for greatness. It's for fulfilment, passionate execution and significant contribution."
-Stephen R. Covey, from The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

在多伦多罕见的公共场所在密西塞岛生活艺术中心，世界尊敬的领导机构和国际畅销人员的作者，这是一个高效的人的7种习惯，名叫二十世纪的第1名最有影响力的商业书籍，斯蒂芬博士。Covey谈到了他的最新书籍，第8件习惯：从效果到伟大的良好兴趣。

Principle-Centred Leadership

拥有教学的主要领导，超过四十年，这种生活传奇和世界象，具有安静的能量和恩典，阐述了伟大的呼唤并赢得了观众的尊重 - 曾担任祖父的人物，以便在许多人中释放人类潜力几代人。

一个英雄数百万,柯维博士ov闻名世界er for his landmark work around helping people take profound ideas, philosophies, and principles and distilling them into easy-to-use daily habits that anyone can apply.

In his inspirational presentation at the Living Arts Centre, he conveyed simple yet very powerful gems of wisdom that I found practical and useful.

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Teach Me What You Have Learned Today

例如,如果你想让你的孩子来培养a love of learning and never have to rag on them again for not doing their homework and not getting better grades, simply ask them when they return from school:

"Teach me what you've learnt today."

By using this one simple habit, Covey claims he's never had a problem encouraging his children to learn because teaching is the best way to learn.

Another gem he talked about is the habit of seeking to understand before being understood through empathic listening.

在超过800人的观众中，他询问有多少人在听力培训;只有13只手抬起，揭示了我们生活的我的自我为中心。

Talking Stick

Covey相关有多少原住民印度部落使用所谓的谈话棒，这些人员在举办谈话棍子的人的所有会议中使用的是唯一允许的人，直到他或她感到理解。

When the possessor of the Talking Stick feels completely understood, then, and only then, is the Talking Stick passed on to the next person.

This creates an incredible understanding and synergy among the team.

Every business would do well to have a Talking Stick!

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Finding Your Voice

Covey then went on to the crux of his message which is the 8th Habit of becoming an island of excellence in a sea of mediocrity by finding one's voice and helping others to find theirs.

According to Covey, the main problem is that businesses are still trapped in the old paradigm of Industrial Age thinking even though we're well into the Knowledge Worker Age.

需要什么是新的范式，他称之为整合身体，心灵，心灵和精神的“全身范式”，他分别等同于纪律，视觉，激情和良心的原则。

The Industrial Age is still very much focused on the body (things, systems, structures, procedures, efficiency, bottom-line).

Knowledge Work Versus Things

But Covey estimates that approximately 80 per cent of all the value-added to goods and services now comes from knowledge work versus things.

Twenty years ago that number was the inverse: only 20 per cent.

所以关键不是行为它是地图。

The key is the accuracy of the map. Once paradigm shifts the behaviour will also shift.

Covey通过要求每个人闭上眼睛和点“北方”来清楚地说明这一点。

When he asked us to open our eyes and look around, I noticed everyone was pointing in different directions!

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真正的北方

In a similar vein, the majority of organisations have their people pointing in different directions; sighting a recent Harris Poll, Covey states that "only 37 per cent of workers say they have a clear understanding of what their organisation is trying to achieve and why." No one knows where true "North" is.

There is no moral compass, no conscience, no guiding spirit.

Part of the solution, according to Covey, is to have a transcendent goal, what he calls a WIG or Wildly Important Goal, that serves a greater purpose.

Only once this goal is clearly communicated to everyone in an organisation can quantum improvements begin to happen in the workplace.

From Effectiveness to Greatness

Here is my interview with Dr Covey revealing his latest insights from his most recent book, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness:

你今天做了什么牺牲？

I have worked very hard to dedicate my personal and professional life to principle centred living.

我受到激情和良心的推动，以涉及对原则的理解以及如何施加伟大。

在这种程度上，只有牺牲，只有激情，无情的承诺，对我的工作，家庭，社区和教会来实现持久的差异。

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Being Principle-Centred

What, in your opinion, is the most important attribute of a leader and why?

I believe the most important attribute for a leader is being principle-centred.

Centring on principles that are universal and timeless provides a foundation and compass to guide every decision and every act.

I've based my life's work on promoting principles and teaching the power that resides in principle-centred leadership.

Principles are not my invention; they are self-evident and are found throughout the world.

如果你看看所有持久的哲学，宗教和思想，你将找到诚信，同情，信任，诚实，问责制等的原则。

I simply translated these principles into a framework of habits, which when followed with consistency and frequency transforms one's character and allows one to earn the moral authority necessary for enduring leadership.

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Definition of Leadership

I must also clarify the definition of leadership, which is sadly and narrowly defined as position, title, status or rank.

This is formal authority and not necessarily leadership.

Through years of study, teaching and working with people all over the world, from all walks of life, I have determined that leadership is:

Communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.

这是我们与他人有关的影响力，帮助他们发现自己的声音，找到自己的目的，以实现自己的独特贡献，并释放他们的潜力，真正定义领导力。

因此，领导力延伸到我们作为工人，父母，儿童，教师，学生，游戏，你的众多个人和专业角色的众多个人和专业角色延伸到你的名字和选择我们所做的选择，以帮助别人找到他们的声音。

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Unique Personal Significance

在你的书中，第八习惯，你谈论找到一个人的声音，发展一个人的“独特的个人意义”。

How does one begin doing that?

To achieve greater heights each person must be challenged to find their voice their unique personal significance and purposeful meaning and help others to find theirs.

Voice lies at the nexus of talent, passion, need and conscience.

When anyone engages in work that taps into their talent and fuels their passion that rises out of a great need in the world that they feel drawn by conscience to meet therein lies their voice in life.

The 8th Habit is all about how to find your voice and help others to find theirs.

What Leader do You Really Admire and Why?

One immediate leader who comes to mind is Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank.

他的故事是说明寻找一个人的声音和帮助别人找到他们的道路的故事。

Muhammad saw a need, felt his conscience move him to try and fill that need and applied his talents and passion to fill it.

在这个过程中，他发现了他的声音并帮助别人找到了他们的。

Muhammad wanted to help his impoverished fellow citizens in Bangladesh.

他遇到了一个竹凳的女人，只能每天制作两个美国便士。

He inquired about her work and found that the woman had no money to buy the necessary bamboo, so she was forced to borrow money from a trader on condition that she sell him her finished product at a price he dictated.

This poor woman, in essence, was held hostage by this trader.

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It Only Required $27

This woman was not alone, there was an entire village of 42 hard-working people working in unbearable circumstances and Muhammad calculated that it only required $27 U.S. dollars to help them out.

他立刻给了这些人的钱，并告诉他们，它是在能够时偿还的贷款。

穆罕默德甚至进一步前进，要求当地银行贷款这些村民的额外资金，并为自己提供担保人。

Much to the scepticism and surprise of the bankers, the villagers paid every penny back on several loans.

Muhammad eventually expanded this loan program by creating his own micro-credit lending institution called the Grameen Bank, so he could help numerous villages.

Grameen Bank now works with more than 46,000 villages giving micro-loans, lending approximately half a billion dollars a year to empower the poor (96% of whom are women) to produce and sell their goods and build housing. So far, the bank has assisted 3.7 million people.

The micro-credit movement has now spread throughout the world.

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Future Leaders of Tomorrow

What advice would you give youth who will become future leaders of tomorrow?

In my 8th Habit book, I share the idea that everyone chooses one of two roads in life, whether you're older or younger, man or woman, rich or poor.

The most travelled road is the one that takes us to mediocrity and the other less travelled road takes us to greatness and meaning.

第一个路限制我们,阻止我们真实的ising our full potential.

This road is often the quick-fix or short-cut approach to life. It often lures us to it when we don't take accountability for ourselves or see ourselves as victims.

Avoid the Road of Mediocrity

My advice to the youth is to avoid the road of mediocrity.

It's probably hard for them to see into the long term, but if they will try to see themselves as human beings with vast potential, and see that, next to life itself, their greatest gift is choice they can choose their responses to whatever comes to them in life, and take responsibility for their choices, their behaviours, their feelings and choose to create their future.

My son, Sean, wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens to help [young people] become their best selves.

他对青年来说非常说话（比我好多），我会向想要在年轻时开始良好习惯的人推荐他的书。

This article was contributed by Sharif Khan author of Psychology of the Hero Soul

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