Trust is the glue that holds everything together. "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen Covey Video Presentation of Stephen Covey. "Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas." - Stephen Covey "Management works in the system leadership works on the system." - Stephen Covey "Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them." You have to water the flowers you want to grow." - Stephen Covey "If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out." - Stephen Covey "Effective leadership is putting first things first. We have the power of choice." - Stephen Covey We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. "Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers." - Stephen Covey "Accountability breeds response-ability." - Stephen Covey It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized." - Stephen Covey It requires visualization and affirmation. "I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. "Live out of your imagination, not your history." - Stephen Covey "Begin with the end in mind." - Stephen Covey "We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals." - Stephen Covey He was married to Sandra Merrill Covey, and they are the parents of nine children. Covey served as an officer and board member of several corporations, an administrative assistant to the president of Brigham Young University, a visiting professor at the University of Utah and at Belfast Technical College, as well as a popular faculty member for the Young President's Organization.
Of personal relations, organizational development, management and leadership.ĭr. For more than 30 years, he trained thousands of leaders in business, industry, education, and government. Covey is respected internationally as an author, lecturer, teacher and leadership mentor. He is author of the phenomenally successful best-seller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, with over 6 million copies sold in 32 languages.ĭr. Covey was chairman and founder of Covey Leadership Center, a worldwide, leadership development firm.