Effective Managers and Leaders build habits that lead to their success. Stephen Covey, in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, outlines seven habits that effective people follow:

1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Things First
4. Think Win-Win
5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the Saw

I work with many great Leaders and Managers and I see these habits in all of them. I can’t recommend these habits enough. When applied correctly, these habits will lead to success. Learn them, practice them, live them.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, Revised editionStephen R. Covey’s incredibly successful book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is a pathway to wisdom and power. It offers a revolutionary program to breaking the patterns of self-defeating behavior that keep us from achieving our goals and reaching our fullest potential. Covey describes how to replace bad habits with a principle-focused approach to problem-solving. This edition has a new foreword and afterword by the author, different from the original version. Paperback.