The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey

I have finished reading a book called 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, one of the best-sellers across the world in 20th century. By going though this book, you can get a new perspective on your life as well as tips about effectiveness to change your life. Base on my understanding, this principle are embodied into many organizational foundation as the common value though not written on the official paper.



これはかなり良かった。体系的に知識を整理できた点と問題にどう対処すればいいのかの地図が頭の中でつくられていく点が、他の書籍と異なって世界中のベストセラーな理由なのかもしれない。あと、なんだかんだ最後は「気合」な点も好き。

Dependent/Independent/Interdependence
Private victory/Public victory

1. Be proactive (Principles of personal vision)
2. Begin with the end in mind (Principles of personal leadership)
3. Put first things first (Principle of personal management)
4. Think win/win (Principles of interpersonal leadership)
5. Seek first to understand...then to be understood (Principles of emphatic communication)
6. Synergize (Principles of creative cooperation)

"Proactivity" is defined as "Stimulus>Freedom to choose(Self-awareness/Imagination/Conscience/Independent will)>Response".

We have 7 types of preference on life.
- Spouse-centered/Family-centered/Money-centered/Work-centered/Possession-centered/Pleasure-centered/Friend-centered/Enemy-centered/Church-centered/Self-centered : Principle-centered

Habit 7 is personal PC. It's preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have - you. It's renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional.

 The new level of thinking

Albert Einstein observed, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
 As we look around us and within us and recognize the problems created as we live and interact within the Personality Ethic, we begin to realize that these are deep, fundamental problems that cannot be solved on the superficial level on which they were created.
 We need a new level, a deeper level of thinking - a paradigm based on the principles that accurately describe the territory of effective human being and interacting - to solve these deep concerns.
 This new level of thinking is what Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is about. It's a principle-centered, character-based, "inside-out" approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness.
 "Inside-out" means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives.
 It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee. If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus on first on primary greatness of character,
 The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
 Inside-out is a process -  a continuing process of renewal based on the natural laws that govern human growth that leads to progressively higher forms of responsible independence and effective interdependence.