Finding Your Voice and Inspiring Others To Find Theirs -- 8th Habit

The 8th Habit: From effectiveness to greatness

Anyone who goes through the book "The 7 habits of Highly Effective People" cant help being fascinated from the splendid principles of this book. So I just decided to go through Stephen Covey's other Marvel "The 8th habit From Effectiveness to Greatness" just to complete the journey started in the 7 habits.

According to Covey the 8th habit that escorts you from effectiveness to greatness is "Finding your Voice and Inspiring Others to Find Theirs"

So, the 8th habit focuses on two things:

Finding Your Own Voice
Inspiring Others to Find their Voice

The essence of this habit is that you will find your voice when you can say you are 100% involved with what you are doing in your life, so that your body, mind, heart and spirit are all engaged in whatever is important to you. To find your voice, you need to examine your natural talent, what you absolutely love to do, what really interests you. And you must listen to the confirming inner voice of your conscience that tells you what is the right thing to do.

And then you should inspire others to find their voice. When you have found your voice, you can begin inspiring others to do the same, this is really about leadership. Great leaders have always inspired people to be self aware, to find themselves and to find their voice, that is the essence of greatness. People and organizations who have truly found their voices go on to become great.

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Links, Sites and Blogs on "The 7 Habits.." by Stephen Covey

Here are some useful links, which consists of summaries, reviews, notes and expositions of Stephen Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People".

The following address is a fan blog. It can be a good learning place as you may find some interesting discussions on "7 Habits.." The blogger also discusses the philosophy of S.Covey and of his book. The author has generously provided its readers with many a useful links to other sources on 7 Habits. I have enjoyed this blog and I wish you also do.
http://stephen-covey-seven-habits-effective.blogspot.com/


In this link (the following one) you will find not the summary, not rigorous analysis or exposition of Covey's book. But, only small and short notes on each chapter, which are.... like highlights of a few but key points .
www.gp-training.net/training/leadership/7habits/index.htm


Follow this link and come to understand what a paradigm is: http://www.egs.edu/faculty/agamben/agamben-what-is-a-paradigm-2002.html


This is another good link. A fine review, charming as well, and very much to the point.
http://www.bainvestor.com/Seven-habits-effectiveness-Covey.html


I should have given this link at the beginning of this post. Because. It contains a PDF, and free, version of 7 Habits- whole book and you can also download it. And, also, it contains a few articles and presentations on some of the concepts of this book.
http://www.docstoc.com/search/stephen-covey/.

On goals:

http://www.careerdevelopmentplan.net/WT_Chapter7_c_Goal_Clarification.html