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Ask Stephen!

May 14th, 2008

This week, the Stephen Covey Community is letting you ask Stephen the questions you’ve always wanted to.
Within the “Ask Dr.Covey” area of the site, you can submit questions for Dr. Covey to answer and view questions asked by other community members. You can also vote on questions that you think are best by clicking on […]

The 4 Steps to Finding Your Voice

April 24th, 2008

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“One word expresses the pathway to greatness: voice. Those on this path find their voice and inspire others to find theirs. The rest never do.”
Stephen R. Covey
Key Message
The power to discover your voice lies in the potential that was bequeathed you at birth. Latent and undeveloped, the seeds of greatness were planted. You […]

Knowledge Workers: 10,000 Times the Productivity

April 7th, 2008

“Do you believe that the Information/Knowledge Worker Age we’re moving into will outproduce the Industrial Age fifty times? I believe it will. We’re just barely beginning to see it…Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft, puts it this way: ‘The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor […]

The Mission Statement That Changed The World

March 3rd, 2008

This week we ask Dr. Covey:
Q: Who is one of your personal heroes?
A: Mahatma Gandhi. Let me read you his personal mission statement:
“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
* I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
* I shall fear only God.
* I shall not bear […]

The High Cost of Low Trust

February 5th, 2008

Most organizations have no clue of the enormous cost of low trust, and because most executives have no means of measuring its bottom-line impact, they have little motivation to seriously address it. To compound the problem, many employees feel like helpless victims of the problems in their organizations and see no clear way to influence […]

How to strike a work and life balance

January 7th, 2008

Each week we will be asking Dr. Covey to comment on common questions.
This week we ask about work/life balance.
With today’s technology, multitaskers are using PDAs, cellphones, text messaging and emails to stay in connected 24 hours a day. While lighthearted nicknames like “crackberry” have been coined to describe this almost obsessive behavior, what happens […]

How to keep your New Years Resolutions

January 3rd, 2008

Each week we will be asking Dr. Covey to comment on common questions.
This week we ask about New Years Resolutions.

Do you feel like you fall into the same trap every year—make a resolution, keep it for awhile, break it, feel guilty, and so on? Or do you feel like it’s easy to just set the […]

Video: The first step to reach your goals

December 17th, 2007

In preparation of the upcoming Stephen Covey Community we’d like to post a video of Stephen giving a brief overview the first step of reaching your goals.

Click the title to view the video.

AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS

December 13th, 2007

AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS
Exclusive and limited offer.
To help usher in the holiday season, and as a thank you to all of the supporters of his new blog, Dr. Covey has autographed a limited number of his best-selling books; The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit, and Everyday Greatness. These autographed books, with new, handsomely […]

The Leader Formula: The 4 things that make a good leader.

December 10th, 2007

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Each week we will be asking Dr. Covey to comment on common questions. This week we ask: what makes a great leader?
Q: What makes a great leader?
A: My definition of leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.
Q: […]