Stephen Covey - The 8th Habit (2004)

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Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

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Most leaders would agree that they'd be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

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When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.

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Because of the space between stimulus and response, people have the power of choice; therefore, leaders are neither born nor made — meaning environmentally trained and nurtured. They are self-made through chosen responses, and if they choose based on principles and develop increasingly greater discipline, their freedom to choose increases.

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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

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Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.

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