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.
STEPHEN COVEYMost people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.
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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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The deepest hunger of [a child’s] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.
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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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