From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People—hailed as the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century—The 3rd Alternative turns Dr. Stephen R. Covey's formidable insight to a powerful new way to resolve professional and personal difficulties and create solutions to great challenges in organizations and society.

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 introduces a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving, transcending 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 than either had envisioned. With the 3rd Alternative, nobody has to give up anything, and everyone wins.

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.

Executing strategic goals is the greatest challenge in business today. Aligning the organization's work teams with your most important objectives is a never-ending battle. In addition, keeping teams engaged and focused on the top goals is critical. Imagine an organization where every team—from senior leadership to the front line—is focused on the most important priorities and committed to achieving the Wildly Important Goals.

FranklinCovey has studied the topic of execution for several years in thousands of teams and in hundreds of organizations. Our research shows that execution breaks down in four ways:

1. People and teams don't know the goals. Either there are too many goals or the goals aren't clear.
2. People and teams don't know what to do to achieve the goals. The goals are not translated into day-to-day activities.
3. People and teams don't keep score. Few can tell at any moment if they are on track to achieve the organization's critical goals.
4. People and teams are not held accountable. For results, employees need relevant and timely feedback and regular accountability.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution will help you eliminate these breakdowns.

Executing strategic goals is the greatest challenge in business today. Aligning the organization's work teams with your most important objectives is a never-ending battle. In addition, keeping teams engaged and focused on the top goals is critical. Imagine an organization where every team—from senior leadership to the front line—is focused on the most important priorities and committed to achieving the Wildly Important Goals.

FranklinCovey has studied the topic of execution for several years in thousands of teams and in hundreds of organizations. Our research shows that execution breaks down in four ways:

1. People and teams don't know the goals. Either there are too many goals or the goals aren't clear.
2. People and teams don't know what to do to achieve the goals. The goals are not translated into day-to-day activities.
3. People and teams don't keep score. Few can tell at any moment if they are on track to achieve the organization's critical goals.
4. People and teams are not held accountable. For results, employees need relevant and timely feedback and regular accountability.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution will help you eliminate these breakdowns.

This is a special live and impromptu recording between Dr. Stephen R. Covey, best-selling author ofThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and his son, best-selling author ofThe Speed of Trust, Stephen M.R. Covey: A Conversation on Trust. Just like the ripples caused by throwing a pebble in a pond, trust begins within each of us personally, continues into all of our relationships, expands into our organization, extends into our marketplace relationships, and ultimately encompasses our global society at large.

Create A Great Career—Your job will be a great job because you are the one doing it! You'll make a great contribution rather than just filling a job description.

Know Your Strengths—You bring a unique, conscience to the world of work.

Define Your Cause—The business world teems with fascinating challenges and opportunities. You'll find the cause that matters most to you.

Build Your Village—You'll create your own community of people who can help you in your great career—and whom you can help in turn.

Master the Job-search Process—You'll make a resume that actually works for you and never suffer through a job interview again.

Create A Great Career—Your job will be a great job because you are the one doing it! You'll make a great contribution rather than just filling a job description.

Know Your Strengths—You bring a unique, conscience to the world of work.

Define Your Cause—The business world teems with fascinating challenges and opportunities. You'll find the cause that matters most to you.

Build Your Village—You'll create your own community of people who can help you in your great career—and whom you can help in turn.

Master the Job-search Process—You'll make a resume that actually works for you and never suffer through a job interview again.

The New York Times bestselling author and co-author of Great Work, Great Career share the secrets of getting and keeping the job you want. This three set audio program teaching you how to create your ultimate job and make an extraordinary contribution includes the following:

• You'll learn the importance of becoming a solution, not a problem to an organization. Discover how to start making the contribution you'd like to make by focusing on your talents, passion, and conscience. This audio also provides tips on how to network in a way that leads to success in both becoming more employable, and in advancing your career
• Learn elements to help you create an effective resume covering five main elements: resume do's, including the top requirements for a great resume; how to write a highly targeted resume and then get it in the hands of a person who can make a decision; and finally, cover letters. By the end of the audio, you'll have a good draft of your resume and all the information you need.

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.

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.

Advocates that employees should focus their attention on what the author defines as the key drivers of cash, profit, assets, growth, and people to evaluate the viability of their organization and their prospects for advancement.

Trust continues to be the most pivotal element needed in successful relationships—from the personal to the political to business. With compelling examples, convincing research, and penetrating insights, Covey and Link teach people how to develop optimal trust relationships by mastering Smart Trust. Stephen M. R. Covey's first book, The Speed of Trust—a #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller— teaches the fundamentals of trust—what it is, how it is established, and how it can be regained when lost. Now, there is a new, more urgent crisis: This is an era of extreme distrust—of the government, our institutions, and in our personal and professional relationships. The economic crisis was a categorical loss of confidence in our interdependent global economic relationships and systems, and the world is in desperate need of a system that can restore that trust.

Smart Trust addresses the seeming paradox that in spite of current historic low levels of trust there is also striking evidence of people, companies, and countries that are prospering from high trust. Smart Trust offers hundreds of examples around the globe—individuals, teams, organizations, markets, and industries—that have created cultures and relationships of high trust and are enjoying remarkable benefits—prosperity, energy, and joy. Smart Trust offers a proven formula to teach what they are doing and how they are doing it. Listeners will learn how to integrate these exceptional examples into all aspects of life—institutional, cultural, and personal. Smart Trust is filled with Covey's principles and strategies for creating environments that thrive because of trust. There has never been a more important time for this discussion.

“Smart Trust is without doubt one of the most powerful and seminal books of our age” (Warren Bennis).

After illustrating the global relevance of trust with his book The Speed of Trust by selling more than one million copies in twenty-two languages, Stephen M. R. Covey again illuminates the hidden power of trust to change lives and impact organizations in Smart Trust. In a compelling and readable style, he and long-time business partner Greg Link share enlightening principles and anecdotes of people and organizations that are not only achieving unprecedented prosperity from high-trust relationships and cultures but—even more inspiring—also attaining elevated levels of energy and joy.

     The sustainable success these leaders and enterprises are exhibiting is paradoxically being produced in what has proved to be the lowest trust climate in years, if not decades. Smart Trust shows what they are doing and the five actions they are commonly taking to prosper, against the odds, in the same circumstances causing so many others to fail.

     With penetrating insights illuminated by their unique access to many of the world's most successful leaders and organizations, the authors lay out a breakthrough process and skill set in 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.

     Smart Trust has met the strict scrutiny of business leaders around the globe and is validated by research from multiple sources that confirms that high-trust organizations outperform low-trust organizations by nearly three times. Smart Trust shares findings that verify how enduring success, vitality, and happiness are directly related to the level of trust in our relationships—whether in our professional or personal lives.

     Find out why trusted people are more likely to get hired or promoted, get the best projects and bigger budgets, and are last to be laid off. This sea-changing book will forever shift your perspective as it reveals and validates, once and for all, the transformational power of trust. Reading Smart Trust will increase your probability of thriving in this increasingly unpredictable marketplace. The more unpredictable it becomes, the more your (and your organization's) sound judgment and ability to trust in this low-trust world will give you a tremendous competitive advantage—and the capacity to navigate the uncertainty low trust creates.

A legacy work from the multimillion copy bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People—hailed as the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century—The 3rd Alternative introduces a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving.

One of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans, Dr. Stephen R. Covey has helped millions transform their lives. In The 3rd Alternative Covey turns his formidable insight to creative problem solving, presenting a powerful new way to resolve professional and personal difficulties and create solutions to great challenges in organizations and society.

The 3rd Alternative transcends the traditional solutions to conflict—my way or your way—by forging a path toward a creative solution—a third option—that is far better than what either party proposes. Covey profiles in this work a wide range of innovative 3rd Alternative thinkers in fields including business, politics, law, education, policing, health, and family. Through stories and examples, Covey tells listeners how to build strong relationships with diverse individuals based on the notion of winning together and demonstrates how this can generate innovative solutions and growth.

Beyond compromise, beyond mediation, The 3rd Alternative represents a radical, creative new way of thinking. Dr. Covey considers this his legacy work—a groundbreaking, but practical work that demonstrates why 3rd Alternative thinking represents the supreme opportunity of our time.

This book uses a fable about Simon the Pieman to illustrate the power of trust and the balance of choice, analysis, emotion, judgment, and personal courage needed to exercise trust in organizations, relationships, and other areas of life. Following the story are exercises and discussion questions to ask at times when trust matters. No index is provided. Hutchens, an author and developer of learning products, and Rellaford, a storyteller and facilitator and coach to executive teams, are both involved in FranklinCovey's Speed of Trust practice. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Stephen R. Covey ha creato appositamente per te queste carte basandosi sui principi illuminanti del suo best seller "I sette pilastri del successo". Covey svela come, vivendo con integrità e onestà, si possa conquistare il potere di superare le abitudini che ci ostacolano e che frenano il nostro successo.

Scritto da un apprezzato studioso di tematiche manageriali, Stephen R. Covey, e dalla consulente di change management Jennifer Colosimo, questo libro è rivolto a chiunque sia in cerca di un lavoro o di una carriera più gratificante. Lavoro, Carriera, Successo vi fornirà idee e strumenti pratici per diventare indispensabili nel percorso professionale che sceglierete. Create la vostra carriera di successo: riuscirete a offrire un contributo significativo, senza limitarvi a svolgere delle mansioni contrattuali. Scoprite i vostri punti di forza; definite la vostra causa; diventate esperti nel trovare lavoro.

Much more than a grammar and punctuation handbook, the renowned FranklinCovey Style Guide™ helps you: • Produce documents that reflect quality writing standards.• Access more than 110 topics from A to Z, covering everything from document design, graphics, and parts of speech to punctuation, sentence style, and word choice.• Create documents from start to finish and avoid writer's block.• Write effective letters, memos, and resumes with the help of more than 30 model documents.• Design effective, understandable graphics that enhance and convey your message.• Discover and prioritize information.FranklinCovey is a leading provider of leadership, personal productivity, and effective communication workshops. Two programs—Writing Advantage™ and Technical Writing Advantage™--help you learn how to write documents that achieve the results you expect. Both workshops feature the FranklinCovey Style Guide.NEW IN THE FIFTH EDITION The most current guidelines on email, information management, and online documentation. Learn how to manage the flood of email coming at you and get results from the email you send. Find out how to add distinctiveness and power to your online presence.Updated best practices for graphics. Here's the best current thinking on visuals for documents and presentation, charts, color, illustrations, maps, photos, and tables—including all-new examples.Guidance on global English. There is a new section on English as a second language for business professionals, as well as updated guidance on international business English.Valuable new insights for knowledge workers. Learn new ways to think and process information better in updated sections on thinking strategies and the writing process, as well as practical guidance for managing projects and meetings.Model documents for today. As email supplants traditional business letters and memos, you need new models to follow. See the “Model Documents” section for updated samples of sensitive emails, reports, proposals, procedures, and resumes.Everything in this fifth edition has been updated to help you meet the communication challenges of the high-tech, high-demand business world of today.

A new 2010 Edition, updated with 130 color photographs and completely revised text featuring numerous tales of adventure to reinforce the powerful message.

Turn Daily Setbacks and Dramatic Challenges into a Key Component of Success

Adversity is one of the most potent forces in life. It shapes your character, clarifies your priorities, and defines your path. It can also fuel your greatness. Each of us faces a rich assortment of adversities every day, ranging from minor hassles to major setbacks and challenges, even tragedies.

Nobody knows this better than blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and adversity expert Dr. Paul Stolz. In this exciting new edition of The Adversity Advantage, this dream-team joined forces to offer incredible experiences and practical science to teach you how to turn life challenges into a powerful advantage.

Weihenmayer, who is the only blind person to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits, shares his struggles on high mountains to turn adversity on its head and do the impossible. Co-author Stoltz has spent decades decoding the human relationship with adversity and is the creator of the globally acclaimed Adversity Quotient.

Fully revised and updated, this new edition of The Adversity Advantage offers lessons from real-life adventure, seemingly insurmountable challenges, and extensive research to help you achieve greatness. This unique book provides an exciting and insightful framework for surpassing obstacles and reaching higher goals. Its seven proven principles will help you harness the adversity in your life and turn it into agility, innovation, energy, and happiness:

TAKE IT ON!

SUMMON YOUR STRENGTH

ENGAGE YOUR CORE

PIONEER POSSIBITIES

PACK LIGHT, PACK RIGHT

SUFFER WELL

DELIVER GREATNESS, EVERY DAY

Let The Adversity Advantage inspire you to overcome obstacles, no matter how daunting! 

“The very process of studying this book led me to look carefully at myself with an awareness of how the challenges of my life can be the very fuel that will enable me to swim against the stream, against cultural currents, against all forms of adversity inherent in my most important goals.”

—From the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Ph.D., author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

La leadership fondata sui principi: un approccio inside out a lungo termine, orientato allo sviluppo di persone e organizzazioni. La chiave per gestire le sfide che ci troviamo ad affrontare oggi è il riconoscimento di un nucleo centrato sui principi sia all'interno di noi stessi, sia delle nostre organizzazioni. Covey ci offre delle intuizioni e delle linee guida che ci possono aiutare ad applicare questi principi al lavoro come a casa, portandoci non solo ad una nuova comprensione di come aumentare qualità e produttività, ma anche ad una riscoperta dell'importanza di costruire relazioni personali e professionali per godere appieno di una vita bilanciata, gratificante ed efficace.

How to Create Your Ultimate Job and Make an Extraordinary Contribution

No one has ever faced times like these. Great corporations totter, jobs disappear by the millions, and vast new economies seem to grow up overnight.In this book, Dr. Covey and Bob Whitman teach you how to apply four key prinicples to guarantee predictable results in good times and bad: *EXcellent Execution Winning companies have simple goals with clear targets and strong follow-through. All team members know what to do to precisely execute goals.*High Trust Levels With All Stakeholders Low trust slows you down and raises your costs-especially in times of turmoil. But when trust levels rise, everything speeds up and costs go down.*Achieving More With Less In tough times, everyone tries to do more with less, but the real question is "more of what"? Winning companies focus on giving more value-not just cutting back.*Transforming Fear into Engagement Unpredictable times create fear, stress, and worry-fatal distractions when you need total focus. Winning organizations entrust people with a mission they can believe in, channeling their anxiety into resutls.

Inspiring stories andpractical insightschallenge readers to live alife of everyday greatness.

Best-selling author Stephen Covey andReader's Digest have joined forcesto produce an extraordinary volume of inspiration, insight,and motivation to live a life of character and contribution.The timeless principles and practicalwisdom along with a "Go-Forward Plan" challenge readers to make threeimportant choices every day:

1. The Choice to Act - your energy
2. The Choice of Purpose - your destination
3. The Choice for Principles - the means for attaining your goals

Topics include:

• Searching for Meaning
• Taking Charge
• Starting Within
• Creating the Dream
• Teaming with Others
• Overcoming Adversity
• Blending the Pieces

Withstories from some of the world's best known and loved writers, leaders, and celebrities, such as Maya Angelou, Jack Benny, and Henry David Thoreau, and insights and commentary from Stephen Covey, the Wrap Up and Reflections at the end of each chapterhelp create a project that can be used for group or personal study.

The #1 bestselling audiobook of all time, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. In honor of this amazing milestone, five of Stephen R. Covey's most indispensible audio programs have been brought together in this value-priced collector's edition library, including:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Living the 7 Habits

The 8th Habit

Principle-Centered Leadership

First Things First

The wisdom and expertise that has become synonymous with the name Covey is respected the world over and with The Stephen R. Covey 20th Anniversary Collection listeners will get more of his renowned experience and advice than ever before. From problem-solving, to organization and time management to creating personal and professional balance, this unique collection has the answers listeners and Covey devotees are looking for.

Selling is the second oldest profession, often confused with the first! The notion of selling carries a lot of baggage. As it has developed, sales has often become a fear-based relationship. Customers are afraid that they will be "sold" a bill of goods, or that a salesperson will talk them into something that doesn't help them succeed.

On the other hand, salespeople fear they won't make the sale. If they "lose" enough sales, they won't make quota, and they won't personally succeed. In their quest to "close the deal," even some of the world's largest, quota-crazed organizations have, at times, developed a reputation for salespeople who are illusive, ignorant, and arrogant.
Buyers don't trust sellers. Because they aren't trusted, sellers have to guess, and often guess wrong. Buyers prove themselves right and create higher hurdles. And so it goes, with neither client nor consultant achieving success.

Helping Clients Succeed(TM) is fundamental to the success of any business. This program teaches the listener to become totally client-focused, break down the barriers of dysfunctional business development, and find rewarding, productive business relationships. With honesty, clarity, and authenticity, Mahan Khalsa cuts through the nonsense and focuses on getting results and helping clients succeed.

For the Seven Oaks friends, there is always something to do. Whether they're singing along with Pokey Porcupine's harmonica or playing soccer with Jumper Rabbit, everyone is having fun and learning all sorts of things. These seven stories show how practicing the 7 Habits makes this possible for the whole Seven Oaks Community.

From learning how to take charge of their own lives to discovering how balance is best, the Seven Oaks friends have tons of adventures and find out how each and every kid can be a happy kid!