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Recognized as one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans, Dr Stephen R. Covey has dedicated his life to demonstrating how every person can truly control their destiny with profound, yet straightforward guidance. As an an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author, his advice has given insight to millions.
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Leadership by Stephen R. Covey Get other Stephen Covey 7 Habits AudioBooks click here The 4 Imperatives of Great Leaders Stephen R. Covey - Leadership - Audio Book CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 3 CDs Great organizations are created by great leaders—leaders who can unleash the highest and best contribution of their team toward their organizations’ most critical strategic priorities. Leadership: Great Leaders Great Teams Great Results is FranklinCovey’s flagship leadership-development program. It takes a “mind-set skill-set tool-set” approach to developing leaders who can unleash the talent and capability of their team against the organization’s highe extra info.....
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Habit 6- Synergize - Dr Stephen R Covey Brand New : 70 minutes 1 CD LEARN THE HABIT OF CREATIVE COOPERATION FROM THE AUTHOR HIMSELF World-renowned expert in leadership and organization Dr. Stephen R. Covey presents an in-depth look at Habit 6 of The 7 Habits Synergize. Filled with never-before-released material from Dr. Covey this CD includes new and insightful examples in the author's trademark engaging speaking and teaching style. * The Highest Activity in Life: Habit 6 is about working with others to create solutions that value others as well as yourself. In this in-depth audio program Dr. Covey teaches that high-trust relationships are comprised of people who value their differences buil more.....
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Brand New : 63 minutes 1 CD LEARN THE HABIT OF EFFECTIVENESS FROM THE AUTHOR HIMSELF World-renowned expert in leadership and organization Dr. Stephen R. Covey presents an in-depth look at Habit 1 of The 7 Habits Be Proactive. Filled with never-before-released material from Dr. Covey this CD includes new and insightful examples in the author's trademark engaging speaking and teaching style. * You Can Take Control: Habit 1 takes head-on the "victim mentality" that paralyzes and hampers so many people. Habit 1 says "You are not a product of your circumstances; you can choose your response to every situation you face." * More Than an Audio Book: This is not a reading of the Habit 1 chapter from extra info.....
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First Things First by Stephen R. Covey Get other Stephen Covey 7 Habits AudioBooks click here learn how to balance your life First things first - abridged 1 CD by Stephen R. Covey Audio Book CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 1 CD ABRIDGED First Things First is a revolutionary guide to managing your time by learning how to balance your life. Traditional time management suggests that working harder smarter and faster will help you gain control over your life and that increased control will bring peace and fulfillment. But in the first real breakthrough in time management in years the authors of First Things First apply the insights of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to our daily pro find out more.....
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Stephen R. Covey (born October 24, 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) wrote the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Other books he has written include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. His latest book, The 8th Habit, appeared in 2004.
Covey lives with his wife Sandra and their family in Provo, Utah, home to Brigham Young University, where Dr. Covey taught prior to the publication of his best-selling book. A father of nine and a grandfather of forty-nine with his wife, he received the Fatherhood Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative in 2003.
Dr. Covey established the "Covey Leadership Center" which, on May 30, 1997, merged with Franklin Quest to form FranklinCovey, a global professional-services firm and specialty-retailer selling both training and productivity-tools to individuals and to organizations. Their mission statement reads: "We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere". In 2008, Dr. Covey launched The Stephen Covey's Online Community. The site is a mash up of online courses, goal management and social networking. He uses it as a place to teach his most recent thoughts and ideas on current topics and self leadership. Covey holds a BS degree in Business Administration from University of Utah in Salt Lake City, an MBA from Harvard University, and a Doctorate of Religious Education (DRE) in Mormon Church History and Doctrine from Brigham Young University. He also holds membership of the Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey's most well-known book, has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1989. (The audio version became the first non-fiction audio-book in U.S. publishing history to sell more than one million copies.) Many of the ideas and much of the language recast the content of the classic 1966 Peter F. Drucker book The Effective Executive, wherein Drucker wrote: "Effectiveness, in other words, is a habit",[citation needed] and which includes a chapter called "First Things First". In Covey's version, he argues against what he calls "The Personality Ethic", something he sees as prevalent in many modern self-help books. He instead promotes what he labels "The Character Ethic": aligning one’s values with so-called "universal and timeless" principles. Covey adamantly refuses to confound principles and values; he sees principles as external natural laws, while values remain internal and subjective. Covey proclaims that values govern people’s behaviour, but principles ultimately determine the consequences. Covey presents his teachings in a series of habits, manifesting as aprogression from dependence via independence to interdependence. Dr Stephen Covey 7 Habits Audio Books in New Zealand
The Habits
* Habit 1: Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Choice
* Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind: Principles of Personal Vision
* Habit 3: Put First Things First: Principles of Integrity & Execution
* Habit 4: Think Win/Win: Principles of Mutual Benefit
* Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood: Principles of Mutual Understanding
* Habit 6: Synergize: Principles of Creative Cooperation
* Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw: Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal
Follow-up titles to The Seven Habits aim both to add to the original and to form a cohesive philosophy on personal, principle-based leadership. They come in the format of audio books as well (such as the title Beyond The 7 Habits). Covey has also written a number of learning-books for children. His son, Sean Covey, has written a version for teens: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens. This version simplifies Covey's 7 Habits for younger readers to better understand them.
Covey's latest book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness (published in 2004) functions as the sequel to The Seven Habits. Covey claims that effectiveness does not suffice in what he calls "The Knowledge Worker Age". He proclaims that "[t]he challenges and complexity we face today are of a different order of magnitude." The 8th habit essentially urges: "Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs..."
In March of 2008 Dr. Covey launched the Stephen Covey's Online Community. The site is a mash up of online courses, goal management and social networking. Dr. Covey uses it as a place to teach his most recent thoughts and ideas on current topics and self leadership, his books as well as goal setting and reaching. The content is shared via videos, podcasts, printable text and online activities. Users are also able to set personal goals, track their progress and share their progress with others within the community. The community is currently growing at a rate of over 1000 users a week.
Gay-rights groups have criticized Covey for his activity in opposing same-sex marriage in Hawaii in the early 1990s.
Religious views
As a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Stephen Covey has authored several devotional works for Latter-day Saint or Mormon readers, including:
* Spiritual Roots of Human Relations (1970)
* The Divine Center (1982)
* 6 Events: The Restoration Model for Solving Life's Problems (2004).
Evangelical writer Bill Gordon suggests that Mormon theology and cultural practices undergird Covey's writing for a general audience. Specifically, note the notion of "agency" (comparable with Covey's emphasis on "choosing" or "choice") and Covey's belief in a personal God. Himself "[s]ensitive to accusations that his books are little more than Mormon teachings repackaged as management training, Covey says he never introduces religion or politics into his books or worldwide seminars."
Covey served a two-year mission in England for the LDS Church. Covey also served as the first president of the Irish Mission of the Church starting in July of 1962. When Covey studied business at Harvard he would on occasion go and preach to crowds on Boston Common.
Honors and awards
* 2003 Fatherhood Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative
* The Thomas More College Medallion for continuing service to humanity
* The Sikh's 1998 International Man of Peace Award
* The 1994 International Entrepreneur of the Year Award
* The National Entrepreneur of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership
* One of Time Magazine's 25 most influential Americans (1996)
* Accepted the inaugural nationally-acclaimed California University of Pennsylvania's Corporate Core Values Award from the California University of Pennsylvania on behalf of the FranklinCovey Corporation at the "national Franklin Covey Conference" (December 2006).
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NSW wine production overtakes SA
A Bureau of Statistics report says New South Wales has overtaken South Australia as the country's largest wine-producing state.
Brian Smedley from the South Australian Wine Industry Association says the state has been hit hard by reduced water allocations for irrigators and extreme heat during 2009.
"The issue that we need to go forward with is to secure our water to ensure they we have sufficient quality and quantity of water," he said.
"I think we also need to ensure that we have and are exploring new market opportunities so that we have actually a place for this wine to be sold and for sales to match out production."
Mr Smedley says it is hard to predict whether South Australian production will keep declining.
"At this stage that's probably hard to tell, I mean because we expect a lower grape crush this year even because of the amount of grapes that is coming through for our crush this year we probably expect less than we had last year," he said.
"I guess it will just depend in terms a whole range of variables right leading through to this vintage how much water's available next year etcetera."
Cattle industry urges beefed up roads investment
Beef transporters say massive investment is needed to carry Queensland's meat around the country if the industry is going to more than double in the next 20 years as predicted.
The president of the Livestock Transport Association of Queensland, Liz Schmidt, says the Government should increase its investment in the beef industry.
She says the current transport system will not be able to handle increased production.
"The challenges at the moment are actually being able to carry out the transport tasks that's there," she said.
"Like if we have a couple of inches of rain on some of the roads around the state and they close it down or reduce it to an 80 per cent load limit, so to get the number of cattle they're talking about out of those areas, there would be huge investment needed on those roads."
Ms Schmidt says trucks are already at maximum capacity transporting beef around the country.
She says the state's road system has been neglected for far too long.
"It needs to happen - if this is what's being proposed and it's out there for discussion, I guess there needs to be something done and it needs to start right now," she said.
Fire crews grapple with refinery tank leak
Emergency crews were working to contain a petrol leak at a refinery in Melbourne's west overnight.
Mobil workers were draining the unleaded petrol from a 3.5 million-litre tank at Altona. They said it would take 12 hours to empty.
The refinery is surrounded by wetlands. Kororoit Creek, which flows directly into Port Phillip Bay, is on the refinery's southern boundary.
Fourteen trucks and more than 70 firefighters are on the scene along with police and Environment Protection Authority officers.
Commander of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Trevor Woodward, says the tank has sprung several leaks and firefighters fear the tank may collapse.
"We have several leaks coming from the base of the tank," he said.
"It gets worse, because the structural integrity of the tank is now being questioned.
"What we are doing is blanketing the surrounding area in foam and setting up several monitors to deliver foam around the tank.
"Then we are withdrawing our troops to a safer distance."
An alarm at the premises alerted emergency crews to the incident at 11.47pm (AEDT).
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Young people grill Rudd over election promises
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was forced to defend his government's record on delivering key election promises during a forum with 200 young people on Monday night.
The young Australians packed into the old House of Representatives chamber in Canberra to put Mr Rudd through his paces live on ABC1's Q&A program.
Climate change, a Commonwealth takeover of the health system and the economy were hot topics, but the audience were also keen to discuss issues affecting them such as the legal drinking age and racism against international students.
One student accused the Prime Minister of breaking a key election pledge to provide each student in years 9 to 12 with a computer.
"We've said a computer for every young person at secondary from Year 9 or above by 2013 or thereabouts," Mr Rudd replied.
"We're on track to doing that. We have about 260,000 computers out there at schools now. That is a fact."
The students were pleased they had an opportunity to pose tough questions to Mr Rudd, but there was some disappointment among the audience.
"Kevin was polished. I think he clearly anticipated a lot of the questions that were coming out," 24-year-old Kevin Wishart said after the forum.
"He managed to deflect a lot of the issues."
Australian National University student Fleur Hawes, 19, agreed.
"Partly a bit of political rhetoric again. We've heard it it all before," she said.
"But it was nice to see it in person and it was really enjoyable.
"I think there should be more youth forums to have youth voices heard in the community. Even if you aren't able to vote, at least have your voice heard."
Some participants felt issues such as same-sex marriage, financial support for university students, education and indigenous topics should have been covered.
"I think some of them [Mr Rudd] avoided quite cleverly," said 16-year-old Canberra high school student Amanda McDonald.
"I think some of the questions were quite carefully selected and there should have been more of a range."
During the forum Mr Rudd said he would like to see the legal drinking age lifted to 21 given that alcohol was a major factor in road crashes involving young drivers.
"If the evidence is there and it is capable of being proven that it works, then we (will) look at these things and make a decision," he said.
"Drinking rates of young teenagers is going through the roof and hugely affecting their ability to manoeuvre a car."
Mr Wishart says the forum is an example of Australia's unique democracy at work.
"To get an opportunity to talk to your elected official one on one in that sort of town hall situation doesn't really come around in many democracies," he said.
"It's a great opportunity and it's good of Kevin to come out and do it. And I think a lot the school children here will probably be a little more informed when they go to the ballot box. "
Canberra student Jacob Kairouz, 15, says the show provided a rare opportunity.
"I think it's fantastic that we get to have a say and voice our opinions to the Prime Minister," he said.
Abbott moves to override Wild Rivers laws
The Federal Opposition moved to override Queensland's Wild River legislation in parliament overnight.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott introduced a private members bill that he says is an attempt to defend the interests of Aboriginal traditional owners affected by the legislation in Cape York.
The Act was introduced by the Queensland Government to prevent rivers on the peninsula from being damaged by farming and tourism.
Mr Abbott says the State Government has erred significantly in taking away traditional owners' ability to use their land as they see fit.
He told parliament that if Aboriginal people cannot use their own land that it is not really theirs.
"We have the power in this parliament to make laws to ensure that the Indigenous people of Cape York are given back their birth right in respect of their land," Mr Abbott said.
Mr Abbott last month visited Far North Queensland to tell Indigenous leaders of his views.
The Bligh Government, however, labelled Mr Abbott a hypocrite, saying his visit and plans were a political stunt aimed at shoring up support in the next federal election.
