文档介绍：Book Summary
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is still on the bestseller lists
having sold some fifteen million copies. And, people want to know more about Covey's The
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. So, we decided to review The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People in more detail.
Borrowing slightly from the concepts of Quantum Mechanics, The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People begins with the astute observation that people perceive the world differently,
and because we view the world with our own unique "lens," it is difficult to separate the
observation from the observer.
Covey says that we all have our own paradigm, which is our own map of how we perceive the
world and how we think the world should be in our ideal view. Covey writes, "The way we see
things is the source of the way we think and the way we act."
Covey goes on to explain: "...[T]hese paradigms are the source of our attitudes and behaviors.
We cannot act with integrity outside of them. We simply cannot maintain wholeness if we talk
and walk differently than we see. ... To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very
little good in the long run if we fail to examine the basic paradigms from which those attitudes
and behaviors flow."
So, part of achieving insight involves making a "