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How can you maintain the delicate balance between work and home? How can you inspire creative thinking in your company? The answer is leadership ... the kind of leadership that operates on a guiding set of “life principles.” Stephen Covey identifies these principles as “natural laws” ultimately governing our actions. In Principle-Centered Leadership, he teaches you how to align yourself and your world with these laws to bring true power, focus, energy, and integrity to both your personal and professional lives.
Principle-Centered Leadership Will Help You Resolve These Dilemmas And Many Others:
1. How do we achieve and maintain a wise, renewing balance between work and family and between professional and personal areas of life, in the middle of constant pressures and crises?
2. How do we unleash the creativity, talent, and energy of the vast majority of the work force, whose jobs neither require nor reward such resources?
3. How do we create team spirit and harmony among people and departments that have been attacking and criticizing each other for years, while contending for scarce resources, playing political games, and working from hidden agendas?
4. How can we realize that the choice between hardball (“tough” management that tries to force a better bottom line) and softball (“kind” management that hopes for a better bottom line) is transcended by a third alternative that is both tougher and kinder?
5. How can we have a culture characterized by change, flexibility, and continuous improvement and still maintain a sense of stability and security?
6. How do we get people and culture aligned with strategy, so that everyone in an organization is as committed to the strategy as those who formulated it?
7. How can all people at all levels of an organization internalize the principles of total quality and continuous improvement when they are so cynical, fatigued, and disillusioned with all the past “programs of the month”?
8. How can we create a complementary team based on mutual respect when so few value diversity and pluralism?
9. How do we turn a mission statement into a constitution—the supreme guiding force of an entire organization—instead of a collection of nebulous, meaningless, and cynicism-inducing platitudes?
10. How do we maintain control, yet give people the freedom and autonomy they need to be effective and fulfilled in their work?
Includes: 6 Audiocassettes plus a Workbook |