Principle-Centered Leadership : Strategies for Personal and Professional Effectiveness

Dr. Covey is the author of several acclaimed books, including The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which has been at the top of the bestseller lists for over seven years and tied as the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century in a survey of Chief Executive Magazine's readers. More than ten million copies have been sold in twenty-eight languages and seventy countries. His books Principle-Centered Leadership and First Things First are two of the bestselling business books of the decade.

Dr. Covey and other Franklin Covey authors, speakers, and spokespersons, all authorities on leadership and effectiveness, are consistently sought by radio and television stations, magazines, and newspapers throughout the world.

Among recent acknowledgments, Dr. Covey has received the Thomas More College Medallion for continuing service to humanity, the Toastmasters' International Top Speaker Award, Inc. magazine's National Entrepreneur of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and several honorary doctorates. He has also been recognized as one of Time magazine's twenty-five most influential Americans.

Stephen, his wife, Sandra, and their family live in the Rocky Mountains of Utah.

Contents

Preface: A Principle-Centered Approach

Section 1: PERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Introduction to Section 1

Chapter 1 Characteristics of Principle-Centered Leaders
Chapter 2 Seven Habits Revisited
Chapter 3 Three Resolutions
Chapter 4 Primary Greatness
Chapter 5 A Break with the Past
Chapter 6 Six Days of Creation
Chapter 7 Seven Deadly Sins
Chapter 8 Moral Compassing
Chapter 9 Principle-Centered Power
Chapter 10 Clearing Communication Lines
Chapter 11 Thirty Methods of Influence
Chapter 12 Eight Ways to Enrich Marriage and Family Relationships
Chapter 13 Making Champions of Your Children

Section 2: MANAGERIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Introduction to Section 2

Chapter 14 Abundance Managers
Chapter 15 Seven Chronic Problems
Chapter 16 Shifting Your Management Paradigm
Chapter 17 Advantages of the PCL Paradigm
Chapter 18 Six Conditions of Empowerment
Chapter 19 Managing Expectations
Chapter 20 Organizational Control Versus Self-Supervision
Chapter 21 Involving People in the Problem
Chapter 22 Using Stakeholder Information Systems
Chapter 23 Completed Staff Work
Chapter 24 Manage from the Left, Lead from the Right
Chapter 25 Principles of Total Quality
Chapter 26 Total Quality Leadership
Chapter 27 Seven Habits and Deming's 14 Points
Chapter 28 Transforming a Swamp into an Oasis
Chapter 29 Corporate Constitutions
Chapter 30 Universal Mission Statement
Chapter 31 Principle-Centered Learning Environments

Epilogue: Fishing the Stream
A Personal Note
Acknowledgments
Index

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