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Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.
Principle-Centered Leadership (1992)
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements — win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability — can flourish.
Are your values based upon principles?
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
Unless we exercise our power to choose wisely, our actions will be determined by conditions. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Principle-Centered Leadership (1992)
...when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.
The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989)
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Teaching Sport and Physical Activity : Insights on the Road to Excellence (2003)
Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. … Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
Principle-Centered Leadership (1992)
Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly your intergenerational family.
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
Different cultures may translate these principles into different practices and over time may even totally obscure these principles through the wrongful use of freedom. Nevertheless, they are present. Like the law of gravity, they operate constantly.
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
Because of the space between stimulus and response, people have the power of choice; therefore, leaders are neither born nor made — meaning environmentally trained and nurtured. They are self-made through chosen responses, and if they choose based on principles and develop increasingly greater discipline, their freedom to choose increases.
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players. They're not coming from the paradigm of interdependence necessary to succeed in marriage, family, or organizational reality.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
Principles are universal — that is, they transcend culture and geography. They're also timeless, they never change — principles such as fairness, kindness, respect, honesty, integrity, service, contribution. Different cultures may translate these principles into different practices and over time may even totally obscure these principles through the wrongful use of freedom. Nevertheless, they are present. Like the law of gravity, they operate constantly.
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004)
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Misattributed
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Misattributed
There will be real happiness, peace of mind and balance, when living by heart and right-mindedly.
Disputed
Make your life work instead of making life full of work.
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Instead of looking at fragments, try to see the whole picture.
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