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7 Habits of Highly Effective People
To be effective long term you have to first change how you look at the world and your perspective. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People refers to these as Paradigms. The first thing that must be done is to learn how to change your way of thinking, Paradigm Shift, in order to achieve the goal of long term success. If I want to be successful, I must first learn how to put my thought process in the correct place. I can work as hard and as long as I want, but if I’m not thinking correctly I’ll just make it to the wrong place faster. In order to have a successful work place, you have to look at your own morals and follow them. While it is important to show concern for your employees, …show more content…
Being proactive is not so much as taking initiative as it is taking responsibility. Its understanding that nothing happens to you that you don’t allow to happen. You don’t always have the ability to control what happens to you, but you have to ability to choose how you respond. If you don’t act, you will be acted upon. Outside influences can only affect you if you give them the power to. In contrast to being proactive is being reactive. Being reactive is not taking responsibility for you. It’s blaming everything else instead of fixing the problem within. There is a 5000% difference in productivity of those who are proactive from those who are reactive. One of the biggest problems with those that are reactive is that they will find ways to feel victimized by their surroundings. They will not be in control of their life. Work on changing the things that you can. There are things that you can change in yourself, things that you can influence in others and things that you have no effect …show more content…
You can be most effective when you use the skillsets of all around you to achieve a common goal. When you set up your people for success, and give them a sense of ownership and then work through them to execute the mission, you are at your most effective. The two types of delegation are Gofer delegation and Stewardship delegation. Gofer delegation fits more into what I referred to in the second paragraph as personality ethics. This focusses more on methods than on trust. It’s more of a “go do this, and do it this way” instead of allowing the people you delegate to, to do it in the way they think is most efficient. Stewardship delegation is more focused on the results, and allows others to figure out the best way to get it done. This gives them ownership and makes them responsible for the results. For this to work properly you need 5 things. They need to understand the desired results, the guidelines, the resources, accountability and the
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
To be effective long term you have to first change how you look at the world and your perspective. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People refers to these as Paradigms. The first thing that must be done is to learn how to change your way of thinking, Paradigm Shift, in order to achieve the goal of long term success. If I want to be successful, I must first learn how to put my thought process in the correct place. I can work as hard and as long as I want, but if I’m not thinking correctly I’ll just make it to the wrong place faster. In order to have a successful work place, you have to look at your own morals and follow them. While it is important to show concern for your employees, …show more content…
Being proactive is not so much as taking initiative as it is taking responsibility. Its understanding that nothing happens to you that you don’t allow to happen. You don’t always have the ability to control what happens to you, but you have to ability to choose how you respond. If you don’t act, you will be acted upon. Outside influences can only affect you if you give them the power to. In contrast to being proactive is being reactive. Being reactive is not taking responsibility for you. It’s blaming everything else instead of fixing the problem within. There is a 5000% difference in productivity of those who are proactive from those who are reactive. One of the biggest problems with those that are reactive is that they will find ways to feel victimized by their surroundings. They will not be in control of their life. Work on changing the things that you can. There are things that you can change in yourself, things that you can influence in others and things that you have no effect …show more content…
You can be most effective when you use the skillsets of all around you to achieve a common goal. When you set up your people for success, and give them a sense of ownership and then work through them to execute the mission, you are at your most effective. The two types of delegation are Gofer delegation and Stewardship delegation. Gofer delegation fits more into what I referred to in the second paragraph as personality ethics. This focusses more on methods than on trust. It’s more of a “go do this, and do it this way” instead of allowing the people you delegate to, to do it in the way they think is most efficient. Stewardship delegation is more focused on the results, and allows others to figure out the best way to get it done. This gives them ownership and makes them responsible for the results. For this to work properly you need 5 things. They need to understand the desired results, the guidelines, the resources, accountability and the