THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

PRESENTED BY- GROUP NO. 8

THE CONQUERORS

NAME ROLL NO.

NISHI GOYAL 42
MAHIMA MALVIYA 77
SHIKHA KUMARI 93
JAMUNA CHAUDHARY 112
RAJ NARAYAN SINGH 74
VINAY BAUNTHIYAL 17
MANISH DAYAL 70
TAUHID AALAM 188
ANKIT VARYANI 13
DIGVIJAY SUTAR (GL) 121
 INTRODUCTION
• Title of the Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Author of the Book: Stephen R. Covey
• Name of the Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Place of Publication: United States
• Year of Publication: 1989
 BOOK OVERVIEW

• The book, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” is divided into Parts 1-4.
• It was created in the awake of conditions of 90’s when America and its citizens needed
higher productivity in business.
• Author is of the opinion that habits develop as a result of repeated actions and at certain
level of commitment.
• Habits pass through the maturity continuum to become permanent part of life.
• Human habit takes shape based on knowledge learnt (what to do and why), skill acquired
(how to do) and spirit of motivation developed (want to do).
• Check your stance and bring your inner self out. In other words, look at your personal
character, paradigms and object first.
• Some habits are related to human instinct. Some are circumstantial.
1. BE PROACTIVE.

• We have the freedom to choose our reactions to stimuli. We do not have to live by the scripts
that family or society has given us.
• We accept full responsibility for our life the way conscience tells us that it was meant to be
lived.
• Life is before you. You need to design it. Your decisions will choose the way of life you choose
for yourself.
•You can choose success, failure, gratification, gloom, valor or fright. Every step in life leads
you towards a new opportunity. If you want to produce desired results, do the things
differently.

2. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND.

• What do I want people to say about me at my funeral?

• By writing our own eulogy or creating a personal mission statement, we create the ultimate
objective or person first, and work backward from there.
• Begin with the end in mind means to visualize the end from the beginning in principles. One
should keep the end of his life. Visualize your death scene. This is a good exercise to test
imagining power of your mind.
3. Put first things first.
• It is based on principle that things that matter most should not leave at the mercy of
things that matter least.
• Say “No” when you feel things are getting disturbed and you are going out of schedule.
• Select your priorities and stick to these. If you are able to put first things first, you are
saving your time, cost and energy.

4. Think win/win.
• It is based on principle of mutual understanding.
• Either you are in practical life or in play ground, win does not mean you are to win at any
cost.
• It is a thought of win, gives you psychological edge and keeps unnecessary complexes
and worries away from your mind.
5. Seek to understand, then to be understood.

• Without empathy, there is no influence. Without deposits in the emotional bank account
of relationships, there is no trust.
• Genuine listening gives precious psychological air to the other person, and opens a
window on to their soul.
• Communication is a natural phenomenon. Choice of words provides substance to human
communication.
• Human beings learn to speak at the age of two years but he takes many years to learn
how to make choice of correct words.

6. Synergize.

• Synergy results from the exercise of all the other habits.

• It brings forth ‘third alternatives’ or perfect outcomes that cannot be predicted from
adding up the sum of the parts.
• Universe is variable. It undergoes change in every second.
• This habit of developing synergy is in human nature. He likes to remain in groups.
Isolation is against his nature.
• Almighty has created human brains for learning, and exploring. Invention of a computer
machine is evident. It has been developed on the pattern of human brain. Success of
human life can be achieved through habit of synergy in every walk of life.
7. Sharpen the saw.

• We need to balance the physical, spiritual, mental and social dimensions of life.
• ‘Sharpening the saw’ to increase productivity involves taking the time to renew ourselves
in these areas regularly.
• Sharpen the saw means to develop your brain faculties physically, socially, mentally and
spiritually.
• Keep watch on your physical fitness, social public connecting, acquiring knowledge, skill
and aptitude (KSA), and concentrating “self” to improve inner self.
 LEARNING FROM THE BOOK
•Covey’s book strikes a nerve because it shows many people what genuine responsibility is
about.
•To blame ‘the economy’ or ‘my terrible employer’ or ‘my family’ for our troubles is useless.
•To have fulfillment and personal power, we have to decide what we will take responsibility
for, what is in our ‘circle of concern’. Only by working on ourselves could we hope to expand
our ‘circle of influence’.
•All the lessons/ habits from this book can be mentioned here. I want to incorporate all of
these habits in my whole personality.
•Human society needs mini paradigm always for behavior improvement. Here paradigm lies
in eyes of the beholder. It refers to perception to see the world. What we see, we get a print
of it in our mind.
•The 7 Habits gives readers the means for changing the little to transform the big.
 CONCLUSION
It has been said that Covey’s seven habits are merely common sense. On their own they may
be, but put together in that sequence and with the philosophy of principle- centeredness to
support them, they can produce the synergy that Covey celebrates. The 7 Habits gives readers
the means for changing the little to transform the big.
THANK YOU!!!