Successful task management is really agreement management. At the end of the day, how good you feel about what you did and didn’t do correlates to how well you think you kept agreements with yourself. Did you actually do what you told yourself you would do? I believe in outcomes and re...
“ Or asStephen Coveycalls it :1. Begin with the end in mind and 2. First things first. I mean you can develop the skill of focus to a great depth, but if you are focusing on wrong things you will do wrong things very good – but nothing more. For instance you can play a compu...
Teach what you’re learning. Teach what you’re learning.One of my all-time favorite books is Stephen Covey’sThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.One of the skills Covey teaches in the book is that to truly learn something you need to teach it. According to Covey, when we teach...
The engagement was woefully underfunded and got off to a rocky start as the handoff from Sales to professional services was not as thorough as it should have been resulting in AWS professional services staffing the project with resources that did not have the right skill set. A couple weeks in...
To decide what to drop, Hanselman recommends using Stephen Covey's four quadrants: "When something is both urgent and important, like a pregnant wife or an appendix being burst, you should probably do that now," Hanselman says. "If it is neither urgent nor important you should dump it. Bu...
As the late great Stephen Covey taught us, however, a man should always be “sharpening the saw.” This means keeping yourself sharp in all areas of your life. Doing any kind of reading is beneficial, but engaging in analytical reading from time to time can greatly enhance these benefits ...
As the author ofThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey, says your mission statement is about “defining the personal, moral and ethical guidelines within which you can most happily express and fulfill yourself.” Writing down your mission statement on paper makes it real. ...
— Stephen R. Covey The Book in One Sentence The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People teaches you both personal and professional effectiveness by changing your view of how the world works and giving you 7 habits, which, if adopted well, will lead you to immense success. Why should you read...
But I did have, at least, one thing I hadn't lost yet... My Goal. My Dream... and I would not... COULD NOT let it go. The Dream that Couldn't DIE! My dream was bigger than ANY obstacle! I had a dream to create a company that would bring y family financial security and...
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