"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 so often our first things aren't first. 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.

"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 so often our first things aren't first. 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.

Stories of Hope and Inspiration

In Living the 7 Habits: The Courage to Change, Dr. Covey shows how successful people have used these principles to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and change their lives. By showing how real people have used the principles to thrive in a changing world, he provides practical guidance and powerful inspiration to listeners searching for a proven framework for living a meaningful life.

Stories of Hope and Inspiration

In Living the 7 Habits: The Courage to Change, Dr. Covey shows how successful people have used these principles to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and change their lives. By showing how real people have used the principles to thrive in a changing world, he provides practical guidance and powerful inspiration to listeners searching for a proven framework for living a meaningful life.

Quali sono le radici dei problemi che affliggono la società? E come vincere il senso di incertezza e sfiducia che alimenta condotte sempre più superficiali? Stephen R. Covey ritiene che queste radici siano di natura morale e spirituale, e poiché i problemi sono radicati spiritualmente, anche le soluzioni lo sono. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1970, "Le radici spirituali delle relazioni umane2 rimane un libro di crescente attualità, la testimonianza vivida di un processo di crescita che negli ultimi decenni ha coinvolto tutti gli ambiti dell'agire umano e che, in nome del primato della velocità, ha sacrificato il senso e l'essenza della riflessione e dell'ascolto. Attingendo alla sua esperienza di leader, Stephen R. Covey illustra un sentiero sicuramente più impervio ma anche più agevole nel garantire il raggiungimento di obiettivi professionali e sociali con una contestuale conoscenza di sé e degli interlocutori che sono parte integrante e necessaria di tutti i processi decisionali.

Stephen Covey was a renowned and highly acclaimed leadership expert. As an internationally bestselling author, he published titles on leadership, self-help, and other areas that have helped professionals and general readers gain lasting success in their careers and profound meaning from their lives. This collection presents some of Covey’s best writing about leadership and management in one magnificent package. Inside you will find:

The 7 Habits for Managers
Stephen Covey adapted his classic The 7 Habits for Highly Effective People for business leaders, helping them develop their leadership skills in ways that are beneficial to their teams and ultimately their companies.

Principle-Centered Leadership
Learn the powerful principles Stephen Covey taught to many of the world’s top executives and most influential leaders. Align your organization’s resources and structure to increase long-term performance and create a high-trust culture—the ultimate competitive advantage.

The 4 Imperatives of Great Leaders
It was Stephen Covey’s firm belief that leaders make all the difference in creating great organizations. InThe 4 Imperatives of Great Leaders, Covey reveals the keys he utilized to help leaders unleash the full potential of their team members.

This powerful collection provides all of the keys you need to become an exceptional leader. Covey’s proven success with managers and time-tested wisdom will help you hone your leadership skills, no matter your field or situation.

We only get one chance to prepare our students for a future that none of us can possibly predict. What are we going to do with that one chance?

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. Most of our children are not prepared, and we know it.

Parents around the world see the change and know that the traditional three Rs—reading, writing and arithmetic—are necessary, but not enough. Their children need to become far more responsible, creative, and tolerant of differences. They need to increase their ability to think for themselves, take initiative, get along with others, and solve problems.

Business leaders are not finding people whose skills and character match the demands of today's global economy, including strong communication; teamwork; analytical, technology, and organizational skills—young people who are self-motivated, creative, and who have a strong work ethic.

How will we bridge this ever-widening gap? The Leader in Me is the story of a growing number of extraordinary schools, parents, and business leaders around the world who are preparing a generation of children to truly lead their own lives and meet the great challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

The Leader in Me shows how easy it is to incorporate these skills into daily life. It is a timely answer to many of the challenges facing today's young people, businesses, parents, and educators—one that is perfectly matched to the global demands of the 21st century.

Learn the powerful principles Dr. Stephen R. Covey has taught to many of the world’s top executives and most influential leaders. Align your organization’s resources and structures to increase long-term performance and create a high-trust culture—the ultimate competitive advantage.

This audio program is for you if you have ever thought or said these words:

• “He/she spends money like it grows on trees.”
• “We just don’t have time for each other.”
• “If it weren’t for the children, there wouldn’t be enough in this marriage to keep it afloat.”
• “When am I going to be a priority?”
• “I never feel understood.”
• “I just can’t trust him/her!”

In today’s world, the desire to create a strong marriage and family is not enough. It takes a new mind-set, a new skill-set, and a new tool-set to deal with the challenge. If we are to respond effectively to the changes, our relationships must be grounded in principles of effectiveness.

The principles of the 7 Habits provide a time-tested mind-set and skill-set. Millions of people around the world are using the principles in the 7 Habits to grow stronger.

In this two-CD audio program, Dr. Stephen R. Covey and his wife Sandra—along with his brother Dr. John M.R. Covey and his wife Jane Parrish Covey—offer insights and personal experiences in applying these proven principles to marriage and home.

CD 1 is a live recording of a presentation featuring Dr. Stephen R. Covey and his wife Sandra on the 50 years of marriage.

In CD 2, Dr. John M.R. Covey and his wife Jane introduce the basic principles and practices of the 7 Habits as they apply to marriage and family. John and Jane have taught the 7 Habits all over the world to thousands of people.

Change your child’s future starting today: Learn how to use Stephen R. Covey’s proven 7 Habits to create a leadership program for kids of all ages so they can be more effective, more goal oriented, and more successful

In today’s world, we are inundated with information about who to be, what to do, and how to live. But what if there was a way to learn not just what to think about, but how to think? A program that taught how to manage priorities, focus on goals, and be a positive influence?

The Leader in Me is that program. In this bestseller, Stephen R. Covey took the 7 Habits that have already changed the lives of millions of readers and showed how even young children can use them as they develop. These habits—be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek to understand and then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw—are being adapted by schools around the country in leadership programs, most famously at the A.B Combs Elementary school in Raleigh. Not only does it work, but it works better than anyone could have imaged. This book is full of examples of how the students blossom under the program—the classroom that decided to form a support group for one of their classmates who had behavioral problems, the fourth grader who found a way to overcome his fear of public speaking and wound up taking his class to see him compete in a national story telling competitive, or the seven-year-old who told her father than they needed to go outside and play because they both needed to “sharpen the saw.”

Perfect for individuals and corporations alike, The Leader in Me shows how easy it is to incorporate these skills into daily life. It is a timely answer to many of the challenges facing today’s young people, businesses, parents, and educators—one that is perfectly matched to the growing demands of our certain future.

In any conflict, the 1st Alternative is my way and the 2nd Alternative is your way. The fight usually boils down to a question of whose way is better. There are many methods of "conflict resolution" but most involve compromise, a low-level accommodation that stops the fight without breaking through to amazing new results. The 3rd Alternative is about more than just an armistice - it's about creating a new and improved reality. The 3rd Alternative transcends traditional solutions to conflict by forging a path toward a third option, a 3rd Alternative that moves beyond your way or my way to a higher and better way - one that allows both parties to emerge from debate or even heated conflict in a far better place that either had envisioned. With the 3rd Alternative, everyone wins. To a world of escalating strife and contention, 3rd Alternative thinkers like those Covey profiles here bring creative solutions, peace, and healing. His wide-ranging examples include various groups and individuals as living examples of how to create new and better results instead of escalating conflict, as well as how to build strong relationships with diverse people based on an attitude of winning together. Beyond conflict and compromise, The 3rd Alternative unveils a radical, creative new way of thinking. It is a groundbreaking but practical work that demonstrates why 3rd Alternative thinking represents the supreme opportunity of our time.

Stephen R. Covey presents a practical and philosophical guide to solving problems - large and small, mundane and extraordinary - that confront all families and strong communitites. By offering revealing anecdotes about ordinary people as well as helpful suggestions about changing everyday behavior, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families shows how and why to have family meetings, the importance of keeping promises, how to balance individual and family needs, and how to move from dependence to independence. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families is an invaluable guidebook to the welfare of families everywhere.

In this powerful audio book, Stephen M.R. Covey articulates why trust has become the key leadership competency of the new global economy. Covey convincingly makes the case that trust is a measurable accelerator to performance and that when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down, producing what Covey calls a "trust dividend." Covey reveals the 13 Behaviors common to high-trust leaders throughout the world and demonstrates actionable insights that will enable you to shift your behavior to increase trust in all your relationships. Like a ripple in the pond, The Speed of Trust begins within each of us personally, continues into our relationships, expands into our organizations, and ultimately encompasses our global society.

Outlines a model of leadership designed to overcome poor morale, low performance, and high turnover while building engaged, healthy teams.

CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING BOOKS EVER WRITTEN, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has guided generations of readers for the last 25 years. Presidents and CEOs have kept it by their bedsides, students have underlined and studied passages from it, educators and parents have drawn from it, and individuals of all ages and occupations have used its step-by-step pathway to adapt to change and to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for 25 years. It has transformed the lives of Presidents and CEOs, educators and parents— in short, millions of people of all ages and occupations.

What would happen if a top expert with more than forty years of leadership experience was willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It could change your life.John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in the new 10th Anniversary Edition of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined the insights learned from his forty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered only as a communicator like Maxwell can.Find out why . . .~ Abraham Lincoln went from militia captain to private during the Black Hawk War~ Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France wins were made possible because of good leadership ~ So many people lost their lives or got stranded during the Katrina disaster in New Orleans~ The CEO of the world’s ninth-largest retailer has a no-frills office, answers his own phone, and takes a salary that puts him in the bottom 10 percent of CEOs~ Henry Ford nearly sent his own company into bankruptcy~ The Law of the Lid is the most important leadership principle you will ever learnAll these issues and more are explained in this revised and updated The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Like them or not, the laws of leadership govern your personal and organizational effectiveness.“Everything rises and falls on leadership,” says Maxwell. “These laws carry consequences with them. I’ve seen them at work in more than ninety countries around the world. Apply the laws and people will follow you. Violate or ignore them, and you will not be able to lead others. But here’s the good news: every one of the laws can be learned.”

What would happen if a top expert with more than forty years of leadership experience was willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It could change your life.John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in the new 10th Anniversary Edition of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined the insights learned from his forty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered only as a communicator like Maxwell can.Find out why . . .~ Abraham Lincoln went from militia captain to private during the Black Hawk War~ Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France wins were made possible because of good leadership ~ So many people lost their lives or got stranded during the Katrina disaster in New Orleans~ The CEO of the world’s ninth-largest retailer has a no-frills office, answers his own phone, and takes a salary that puts him in the bottom 10 percent of CEOs~ Henry Ford nearly sent his own company into bankruptcy~ The Law of the Lid is the most important leadership principle you will ever learnAll these issues and more are explained in this revised and updated The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Like them or not, the laws of leadership govern your personal and organizational effectiveness.“Everything rises and falls on leadership,” says Maxwell. “These laws carry consequences with them. I’ve seen them at work in more than ninety countries around the world. Apply the laws and people will follow you. Violate or ignore them, and you will not be able to lead others. But here’s the good news: every one of the laws can be learned.”

Unleash the hidden power of trust and change lives and impact organization with proven, patented techniques.

In a compelling and reader-friendly style, Stephen M.R. Covey and long-time business partner Greg Link share enlightening principles from people and organizations that are achieving unprecedented prosperity from high-trust relationships and—even more inspiring—also attaining elevated levels of energy and joy.

With penetrating insights about the world’s most successful leaders and organizations, the authors lay out a practical and actionable formula that makes trust a performance multiplier for leaders, teams, organizations, and even countries. They show why trust is fast becoming the most consequential life and leadership skill of our time—a career-critical competency required to navigate and compete in this perilous twenty-first-century interdependent, global economy. Covey and Link teach how to cut through traditional either/or thinking to extend “Smart Trust,” enabling you to exercise sound judgment in a low-trust world by minimizing risk and maximizing possibilities.

?[Crucial Conversations] draws our attention to those defining moments that literally shape our lives, our relationships, and our world. . . . This book deserves to take its place as one of the key thought leadership contributions of our time.? ? From the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People?The quality of your life comes out of the quality of your dialogues and conversations. Here?s how to instantly uplift your crucial conversations.? ? Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul®The first edition of Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene and revolutionized the way millions of people communicate when stakes are high. This new edition gives you the tools to: ? Prepare for high-stakes situations? Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue? Make it safe to talk about almost anything ? Be persuasive, not abrasive

This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations working side-by-side in the workplace: the Traditionalists (born before 1945), the Baby Boomers (born 1945-1964), Gen X (born 1965-1980), and the Millennials (born 1981-2001).

Haydn Shaw, popular business speaker and generational expert, has identified 12 places where the 4 generations typically come apart in the workplace (and in life as well). These sticking points revolve around differing attitudes toward managing one’s own time, texting, social media, organizational structure, and of course, clothing preferences. If we don’t learn to work together and stick together around these 12 sticking points, then we’ll be wasting a lot of time fighting each other instead of enjoying a friendly and productive team. Sticking Points is a must-read book that will help you understand the generational differences you encounter while teaching how we can learn to speak one another’s language and get better results together.