The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by Stephen Covey. Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls “true north” principles based on a character ethic that he presents as universal and timeless.

Covey defines effectiveness as the balance of obtaining desirable results with caring for that which produces those results. He illustrates this by referring to the fable of the goose that laid the golden eggs. He further claims that effectiveness can be expressed in terms of the P/PC ratio, where P refers to getting desired results and PC is caring for that which produces the results.

Introduction

First Habit: Be proactive.

Second Habit: Begin with the end in mind

Third Habit: First things first

Fourth Habit: Think win-win

Fifth Habit: Seek first to understand, then to be understood

Sixth Habit: Synergize!

Seventh Habit: Sharpen the Saw