Stephen Covey领导力

Leadership Skills

"The call and need of a new era is for greatness. It's for fulfilment, passionate execution and significant contribution."
-Stephen R. Covey, from The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Making a rare public appearance in Toronto at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre, world-respected leadership authority and author of the international bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century, Dr Stephen R. Covey spoke on his latest book, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness to a packed audience.

Principle-Centred Leadership

Having taught principle-centred leadership for over four decades, this living legend and world icon, with his quiet energy and grace, epitomised a call to greatness and earned the respect of the audience -- standing as a grandfather figure for unleashing human potential in many generations.

一位英雄到数百万，博士博士在围绕着众所周知，他的地标工作越来越闻名，帮助人们采取深刻的想法，哲学和原则，并蒸馏他们易于使用任何人可以申请的习惯。

在他在生活艺术中心的鼓舞人心的介绍中，他发现了简单但非常强大的智慧宝石，我发现了实用和有用。

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教我今天学到的东西

例如,如果你想让你的孩子来培养a love of learning and never have to rag on them again for not doing their homework and not getting better grades, simply ask them when they return from school:

“教我今天学到的东西。”

通过使用这一简单的习惯，Covey声称他从未有过一个问题，鼓励他的孩子学习，因为教学是学习的最佳方式。

Another gem he talked about is the habit of seeking to understand before being understood through empathic listening.

In the audience of over 800 people, he asked how many people had any formal training on listening; only 13 hands went up revealing just how ego-centric of a me-me-me culture we live in.

Talking Stick

Covey related how many Native Indian tribes use what's called the Talking Stick which is used in all meetings where the person holding the Talking Stick is the only person allowed to speak until he or she feels understood.

When the possessor of the Talking Stick feels completely understood, then, and only then, is the Talking Stick passed on to the next person.

这在团队中创造了一个令人难以置信的理解和协同作用。

Every business would do well to have a Talking Stick!

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Finding Your Voice

Covey then went on to the crux of his message which is the 8th Habit of becoming an island of excellence in a sea of mediocrity by finding one's voice and helping others to find theirs.

According to Covey, the main problem is that businesses are still trapped in the old paradigm of Industrial Age thinking even though we're well into the Knowledge Worker Age.

What's required is a new paradigm he calls the "whole body paradigm" of integrating body, mind, heart, and spirit which he respectively equates to the principles of discipline, vision, passion, and conscience.

The Industrial Age is still very much focused on the body (things, systems, structures, procedures, efficiency, bottom-line).

Knowledge Work Versus Things

But Covey estimates that approximately 80 per cent of all the value-added to goods and services now comes from knowledge work versus things.

二十年前，数字是逆的：只有20％。

So the key is not behaviour it's the map.

关键是地图的准确性。一旦范式转移行为也会转变。

Covey clearly illustrated this point by asking everyone to close their eyes and point "North."

When he asked us to open our eyes and look around, I noticed everyone was pointing in different directions!

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True North

In a similar vein, the majority of organisations have their people pointing in different directions; sighting a recent Harris Poll, Covey states that "only 37 per cent of workers say they have a clear understanding of what their organisation is trying to achieve and why." No one knows where true "North" is.

There is no moral compass, no conscience, no guiding spirit.

根据Covey的说法，部分解决方案是拥有超越的目标，他称之为假发或非常重要的目标，这是一个更具目的的目标。

只有在组织中的每个人都清楚地传达这个目标，才能在工作场所开始发生量子改进。

From Effectiveness to Greatness

这是我对博士博士的采访揭示了他最近的书籍的最新见解，第8件习惯：从伟大的有效性：

What sacrifices have you made to be where you are today?

我努力努力让我的个人和职业生活致力于以中心为中心的生活。

I am driven by a passion and conscience to spread an understanding of principles and how to apply them to reach greatness.

To that extent, there is no sacrifice only a passionate, relentless commitment to my work, family, community and church to make a lasting difference.

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是以原则为中心的

在您看来，什么是领导者最重要的属性以及为什么？

I believe the most important attribute for a leader is being principle-centred.

以普遍和永恒的原则为中心，为指导每个决定和每项行为提供基础和指南针。

I've based my life's work on promoting principles and teaching the power that resides in principle-centred leadership.

原则不是我的发明;他们是不言而喻的，在世界各地都有。

If you look at all enduring philosophies, religions and thoughts, you will find principles such as integrity, compassion, trust, honesty, accountability and others at their core.

I simply translated these principles into a framework of habits, which when followed with consistency and frequency transforms one's character and allows one to earn the moral authority necessary for enduring leadership.

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Definition of Leadership

I must also clarify the definition of leadership, which is sadly and narrowly defined as position, title, status or rank.

This is formal authority and not necessarily leadership.

Through years of study, teaching and working with people all over the world, from all walks of life, I have determined that leadership is:

沟通到他们的价值和潜力，显然他们来看自己。

It is the influence we have with others to help them discover their own voice, to find their own purpose, to make their unique contribution, and to release their potential, that truly defines leadership.

Thus, leadership extends to the many personal and professional roles we play as workers, parents, children, teachers, students, swamis, you name it and the choice we make to live by principles to help others find their voice.

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Unique Personal Significance

In your book, 8th Habit, you talk about finding one's voice and developing one's "unique personal significance."

How does one begin doing that?

为了实现更高的高度，必须挑战每个人，以找到他们的声音他们独特的个人意义和有目的意义，并帮助别人找到他们的人。

Voice lies at the nexus of talent, passion, need and conscience.

When anyone engages in work that taps into their talent and fuels their passion that rises out of a great need in the world that they feel drawn by conscience to meet therein lies their voice in life.

The 8th Habit is all about how to find your voice and help others to find theirs.

What Leader do You Really Admire and Why?

One immediate leader who comes to mind is Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank.

His story is one that illustrates the path to finding one's voice and helping others find theirs.

穆罕默德看到了一种需要，感受到他的良心让他试图填补这种需要并施加他的才能和热情来填补它。

In the process, he found his voice and helped others to find theirs.

穆罕默德希望在孟加拉国帮助他贫困的同胞。

He met a woman who made bamboo stools only to make two U.S. pennies each day.

He inquired about her work and found that the woman had no money to buy the necessary bamboo, so she was forced to borrow money from a trader on condition that she sell him her finished product at a price he dictated.

本质上，这位可怜的妇女被这位贸易商持有人质。

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它只需要27美元

这个女人并不孤单，还有一个在难以忍受的情况下工作的42个勤劳的人，穆罕默德计算它只需要27美元的美国美元来帮助他们。

He immediately gave the money to the people and told them it was a loan to be repaid when they were able.

Muhammad even went further to ask the local bank to loan these villagers additional money and offered himself as a guarantor.

Much to the scepticism and surprise of the bankers, the villagers paid every penny back on several loans.

Muhammad eventually expanded this loan program by creating his own micro-credit lending institution called the Grameen Bank, so he could help numerous villages.

Grameen Bank now works with more than 46,000 villages giving micro-loans, lending approximately half a billion dollars a year to empower the poor (96% of whom are women) to produce and sell their goods and build housing. So far, the bank has assisted 3.7 million people.

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Future Leaders of Tomorrow

What advice would you give youth who will become future leaders of tomorrow?

In my 8th Habit book, I share the idea that everyone chooses one of two roads in life, whether you're older or younger, man or woman, rich or poor.

The most travelled road is the one that takes us to mediocrity and the other less travelled road takes us to greatness and meaning.

第一个路限制我们,阻止我们真实的ising our full potential.

This road is often the quick-fix or short-cut approach to life. It often lures us to it when we don't take accountability for ourselves or see ourselves as victims.