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The 8th Habit (2004)
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Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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Values are social norms — they're personal, emotional, subjective, and arguable. All of us have values. Even criminals have values. The question you must ask yourself is, Are your values based upon principles? In the last analysis, principles are natural laws — they're impersonal, factual, objective and self-evident. Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
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My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
October 24, 1932
Died:
July 16, 2012
(aged 79)
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