Stephen Covey Quotes About Management
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You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
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Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.
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Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make
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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
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There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
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But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
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Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.
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The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'
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People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.
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Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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