Principle Centered Leadership
By admin • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Business
Principle Centered Leadership
by: Stephen R. Covey
Principle Centered Leadership
By Stephen R. Covey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0671317032
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780671317034
Product Description:
No matter what level of success we have achieved, none of us can be content to stay where we are. In order to harness this drive, this innate desire for progress in all areas, we must learn to center our lives according to a set of certain basic principles.
Stephen R. Covey, author of the runaway bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, tells us how to apply these principles to the problems we face every day. Drawing on his 25 years of teaching and consulting experience, Dr. Covey shows us how to avoid the pitfalls of ineffective people, and at the same time how to meet the goals of all strong business leaders: quality, productivity, profitability and establishing win-win relationships.
Using the same insightful and sensitive style that made The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People a #1 national audio bestseller, Principle-Centered Leadership provides the keys to life-long learning — each one unlocking the doors to personal fulfillment and professional success.
Summary: Find your direction
Rating: 5
The Secrets of Self-Leadership will inspire and motivate you to get off your duff and do what it is that you were put here on this planet to do. You already have what it takes. All you need is the guidance. Here it is. This is a different type of leadership book that helps you, be the best you.
S. Hay; Author, Guess Who’s Practicing Feng Shui? Big Business Secrets of the World’s Richest
Summary: A leadership must have
Rating: 4
Very good to have in tandem with "The 7 habits of highly effective people."Provides tremendous insight on human nature. Provides a great foundation for Management and how to utilize your people effectively. I highly recommend Stephen Covey’s books.
Summary: Principle Centered Leadership
Rating: 2
am a devotee of Stephen Covey and was moved when I listened to his Principle Centered Leadership on tape various years ago. I felt that his principles, as articulated in this tape version, matched my beliefs of principle centered values. Principle Centered Leadership is now available on CDs and I have purchased this new version and given it to subordinates and peers as a way of establishing a common value centered understanding of each other. I had not listened to the CD version until recently. I must say that I was very disappointed with this version. It is edited significantly from the tape verion to the point that I had difficulty understanding and following the principles this conceptual model spouses. The people I had given the CDs to had diffulty understanding the concepts and felt that it was arduous to listen to the CDs. I am sorry because I believe that the principles are sound but cannot longer support the CD version.
Summary: A book that will change the world if every leader reads it
Rating: 5
Many people would agree that what the world lacks is leadership and not resources. Mr. Covey has perfectly laid out what many academic papers and powerful speeches have lacked – substance, and practical steps.
This is an amazing attempt to significantly address the root cause of the problems of this world – the undersupply of quality leadership with principles. As the book stresses, it is imperative that political, business and organizational leaders understand and embrace fairness, commonsense, quality, ethical and dedicated leadership to drive positive political, economic, and social change across the world. This books shows how World citizens can be empowered and how the vast natural resources of the planet can be most effectively deployed. This was obviously a very inspiring book. The only problem is that I don’t know how many leaders would dare to read it? (Nwankama W Nwankama)
Summary: An Interesting Model of Leadership
Rating: 3
I approached Stephen Covey’s Principle-Centered Leadership not long after having read his famous The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Given the very high benchmark, I was a bit disappointed by the chaotic structure and repeating content. However, the key insights of Dr. Covey’s teachings on leadership sum up to quite an interesting model of leadership within organizations.
The key notion of the book is that leadership, in the same way as life in general, should be governed by principles. Dr. Covey describes four levels of leadership and corresponding four key principles that should be followed by effective leaders and organizations.
Personal level. The means to becoming an effective leader on the personal level is following the principle of trustworthiness. In order to be trustworthy, you need to show character and develop competence.
Interpersonal level. Leading people, which happens on the interpersonal level, can only be successful if it is based on the principle of trust. This in turn requires that both sides of the relationship are trustworthy (showing character and competence).
Managerial level. On the managerial level, a leader can obtain best results by following the principle of empowerment. People should supervise themselves – as a manager, you should become a source of help rather than a supervisor.
Dr. Covey lists six conditions of empowerment:
1. Character
2. Skills
3. Win-win agreement
4. Self-supervision
5. Helpful structure and systems
6. Accountability
Organizational level. In the design of leadership-centered organizations, one should focus on the principle of alignment. Great organizations should be aligned on the correct principles, values, strategy, style, structure and systems.
This might be a potentially interesting read to anyone who has not read 7 Habits before. Otherwise, I would recommend only a scanning and selective read of this book to anyone interested in the topic.
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