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THE 7 HABBITS OF HIGHLY 

EFFECTIVE PEOPLE 

POWERFUL LESSONS IN

PERSONAL CHANGE

STEPHEN R. COVEY

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About author � Dr Stephen Covey is a hugely influential management

guru, whose book The Seven Habits Of Highly EffectivePeople, became a blueprint for personal development

when it was published in 1990.� Stephen Covey, as well as being a renowned writer,

speaker, academic and humanist, has also built a hugetraining and consultancy products and servicesbusiness - Franklin Covey which has a global reach, and

has at one time or another consulted with andprovided training services to most of the world'sleading corporations.

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THE SEVEN HABITS:

OVERVIEW� Our character is a collection of our habits, and habits

have a powerful role in our lives. Habits consist of 

knowledge, skill, and desire. Knowledge allows us to

know what to do, skill gives us the ability to know how

to do it, and desire is the motivation to do it.� The Seven Habits move us through the following

stages:

� Dependence: the paradigm under which we are born,

relying upon others to take care of us.

Independence: the paradigm under which we can make

our own decisions and take care of ourselves.

Interdependence: the paradigm under which we

cooperate to achieve something that cannot be

achieved independently.

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� Much of the success literature today tends to value

independence, encouraging people to become liberated and do

their own thing. The reality is that we are interdependent, andthe independent model is not optimal for use in an

interdependent environment that requires leaders and team

players.

� To make the choice to become interdependent, one first must

be independent, since dependent people have not yet

developed the character for interdependence. Therefore, the

first three habits focus on self-mastery, that is, achieving the

private victories required to move from dependence to

independence. The first three habits

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HABIT-1

� BE PROACTIVE

� This is the ability to control one's

environment, rather than have it control you,as is so often the case. Self determination,

choice, and the power to decide response to

stimulus, conditions and circumstances

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HABIT-2

� BEGIN WITH END OF MIND

� Covey calls this the habit of personal

leadership - leading oneself that is, towardswhat you consider your aims. By developing

the habit of concentrating on relevant

activities you will build a platform to avoid

distractions and become more productive and

successful.

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HABIT-3

� PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST

� Covey calls this the habit of personal

management. This is about organizing andimplementing activities in line with the aims

established in habit 2. Covey says that habit 2

is the first, or mental creation; habit 3 is the

second, or physical creation

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HABIT-4

� THINK WIN/WIN

� Covey calls this the habit of interpersonalleadership, necessary because achievementsare largely dependent on co-operative effortswith others. He says that win-win is based onthe assumption that there is plenty foreveryone, and that success follows a co-operative approach more naturally than theconfrontation of win-or-lose

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HABIT-5

� SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BEUNDERSTOOD.

� One of the great maxims of the modern age. This

is Covey's habit of communication, and it'sextremely powerful. Covey helps to explain this inhis simple analogy 'diagnose before youprescribe'. Simple and effective, and essential fordeveloping and maintaining positive relationships

in all aspects of life. (See the associated sectionson Empathy, Transactional Analysis, and theJohari Window.)

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HABIT-6

� SYNERGIZE

� Covey says this is the habit of creative co-

operation - the principle that the whole isgreater than the sum of its parts, which

implicitly lays down the challenge to see the

good and potential in the other person's

contribution.

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HABIT-7

� SARPEN THE SAW

� This is the habit of self renewal, says Covey,

and it necessarily surrounds all the otherhabits, enabling and encouraging them to

happen and grow. Covey interprets the self 

into four parts: the spiritual, mental, physical

and the social/emotional, which all needfeeding and developing

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COCLUSION

There is no excellence in all this world

Which can be separated from right living