First Things First

Zusatztext Scott Degarmo Editor-in-chief! Success Magazine Profound and powerful! First Things First shines a brilliant light into the semi-darkness of time-management techniques. Instead of seeing fragments of our lives! we can now see the whole picture. This book can be the lever with which you can truly change your life. Zusammenfassung From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a guide to prioritizing your personal and professional goals. I'm getting more done in less time! but where are the rich relationships! the inner peace! the balance! the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well? Does this nagging question haunt you! even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so! First Things First can help you understand why we so often prioritize things that are unimportant to both our larger goals and our inner happiness. From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a guide to building your work on the principles of effectiveness so that your life can spent cultivating genuine relationships! investing in pursuits you enjoy! and achieving balance in both your personal and professional lives. In First Things First ! Stephen M. R. Covey advocates categorizing tasks by urgency and importance so that you can focus on what actually needs to be done in the limited amount of time that you have. Using personal examples and insight from years of business experience! he argues for a new way of looking at your to-do list. Rather than offering you another clock! First Things First provides you with a compass! because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going. Informationen zum Autor Recognized as one of Time magazine's twenty-five most influential Americans! Stephen R. Covey (19322012) was an internationally respected leadership authority! family expert! teacher! organizational consultant! and author. His books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in thirty-eight languages! and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. After receiving an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University! he became the cofounder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey! a leading global training firm. A. Roger Merrill! cofounder of the Covey Leadership Center (now FranklinCovey)! has more than forty years of experience as a line manager! senior executive! executive coach! consultant! and teacher. Roger is the author of Connections: Quadrant II Time Management ! coauthor of The Nature of Leadership and Life Matters: Creating a Dynamic Balance of Work! Family! Time! and Money . Rebecca A. Merrill has served in numerous leadership positions in community! education! and women's organizations. Coauthor of Connections: Quadrant II Time Management ! she also assisted Stephen R. Covey on The 7 Habits Highly Effective People . Klappentext Covey applies the proven wisdom of his phenomenal bestsellers! "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" and "Principle-Centered Leadership"! to a new time-management approach based on life values. Exercises! diagrams! and real-life examples throughout. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Introduction Section One THE CLOCK AND THE COMPASS 1 How Many People on Their Deathbed Wish They'd Spent More Time at the Office? 2 The Urgency Addiction 3 To Live! to Love! to Learn! to Leave a Legacy Section Two THE MAIN THING IS TO KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING 4 Quadrant II Organizing: The Process of Putting First Things First 5 The Passion ...

Scott Degarmo Editor-in-chief, Success Magazine Profound and powerful, First Things First shines a brilliant light into the semi-darkness of time-management techniques. Instead of seeing fragments of our lives, we can now see the whole picture. This book can be the lever with which you can truly change your life.

Autorentext
Recognized as one of Time magazine’s twenty-five most influential Americans, Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) was an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author. His books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in thirty-eight languages, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. After receiving an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University, he became the cofounder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, a leading global training firm.

Klappentext
Covey applies the proven wisdom of his phenomenal bestsellers, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" and "Principle-Centered Leadership", to a new time-management approach based on life values. Exercises, diagrams, and real-life examples throughout.

Zusammenfassung
From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a guide to prioritizing your personal and professional goals.

I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?

Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so, First Things First can help you understand why we so often prioritize things that are unimportant to both our larger goals and our inner happiness. From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a guide to building your work on the principles of effectiveness so that your life can spent cultivating genuine relationships, investing in pursuits you enjoy, and achieving balance in both your personal and professional lives.

In First Things First, Stephen M. R. Covey advocates categorizing tasks by urgency and importance so that you can focus on what actually needs to be done in the limited amount of time that you have. Using personal examples and insight from years of business experience, he argues for a new way of looking at your “to-do” list. Rather than offering you another clock, First Things First provides you with a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going.

Leseprobe
Chapter 1: How Many People on Their Deathbed Wish They'd Spent More Time at the Office?

The enemy of the "best" is the "good,"

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our rime, from the major seasons to the individual moments in out lives. We're also living with the consequences of those choices. And many of us don't like those consequences -- especially when we feel there's a gap between how we're spending our rime and what we feel is deeply important in out lives.

My life is hectic! I'm running all day -- meetings, phone calls, paperwork, appointments. I push myself to the limit, fall into bed exhausted, and get up early the next morning to do it all again. My output is tremendous; I'm getting a lot done. But I get this feeling inside sometimes, "So what? What are you doing that really counts?" I have to admit, I don't know.

I feel like I'm being torn apart. My family is important to me; so is my work. I live with constant conflict, trying to juggle the demands of both. Is it possible to be really successful -- and happy -- at the office and at home?

There is simply too little of me to go around. The board and shareholders are on me like a swarm of bees for our declining share prices. I'm constantly playing referee in turf wars between members of my executive team. I feel tremendous pressure to be leading our organization's quality …

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