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Average Rating: Rating: - Leadership based on virtues, not rules this follow-up to Covey's enormous and enduring bestseller, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, he applies the same framework to leadership in organizations. If you have read and remember the first book, you may find little really new in this one, although a slightly different angle on the familiar material may be more rewarding than re-reading the first. Whether or not you agree with or find useful all of Covey's seven habits, the virtue-based approach of this work can deliver the goods more lastingly than rule-based approaches that fail to change your basic method of operating. Drawing on a heritage that goes all the way back to Aristotle, Covey's habit/virtue approach to life and our priorities allows him to show convincingly that business and ethics can comfortably live together. In the midst of the incredible change continually afoot in the Innovation Economy, Covey's message is to find the principle-centered core in ourselves and our organizations. Principle-centered leadership is the natural outcome of applying Covey's original message to those in executive positions of all kinds. What is the downside to this approach? Only that this means no quick fixes. Principles and habits take hard work and may look less attractive than books offering techniques and gimmicks for improved leadership effectiveness. In the end, managers know that this downside is not real, since the quick tricks either don't work or soon fail. Covey's approach can help you find the stable, guiding core amidst the mad tumble of the business world. Rating: - A dud compared w/ the 7 Habits If you are proficient in The Seven Habits and you have a management or leadership career, this book could be a valuable tool. I would recommend reading The 7 Habits first, as a sound foundation to help you understand this book. Families and especially individuals will find little to gain from this career-oriented book. It isn't as easy to apply, confirm, or understand as the 7 habits. It contains some fresh material but much of it is a repeat from the 7 Habits. Much of Principle-Centered is repetitive within itself. This book is very pale and disappointing in comparison with The Seven Habits. In it, Covey attempts to negate Freud's theories by saying they were developed his theories from the study of neurotic and psychotic people. I wonder if it would follow then that Covey's books would not help such people. This book is more sermon-like and preachy than his other books. Rating: - Corner Stone I found the book intriguing. The book makes great common sense and has many quotable quotes. The foundation truths about leadership: "The Law of the Harvest"; "Life is one indivisible whole." Organizational ecosystem; four leadership paradigms; efficiency vs. effectiveness; trustworthiness is foundational; and seven chronic organizational problems are examples of a few the important lessons to learn. If you read nothing else this year on leadership, Principle-Centered Leadership is my first and best pick. All other leadership books are commentary. The book is a great read and keeps me well centered in an ever changing world of advice and new techniques.

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