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Tag: Stephen R. Covey

August 11, 2012

Read this if you do timesheets: Seven strategies to get the blue bar under the orange line

“Have you done your timesheets?” This question is loathed by managers and staff alike in a professional services firm. I don’t propose to have the… Read more

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    Oh Chad, I enjoyed the first few paragraphs…
  • Adele
    Adele
    Great article. I'm beginning to explore new ways…
  • Barry
    Barry
    Could you not be transparent and share how…
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October 3, 2011

Covey’s seven habits for a digital agency – Habit 7: Sharpening the saw (maintain your energy and plan your renewal strategy)

Habit Seven proposes that the four areas of physical, mental, spiritual and social renewal should be planned and integrated. Far from having all the answers,… Read more

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May 29, 2011

Covey’s seven habits for a digital agency – Habit 6: Synergy (in project teams, work life balance, and values)

Synergy happens when an end result is greater than the sum of each contributing part.  If you are looking for fulfilment in your day job,… Read more

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    good post... just need to follow it up…
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April 13, 2011

Covey’s seven habits for a digital agency – Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then be understood (no one wants a web site)

I was a ten years old when I first saw the tire swing diagram hanging on the wall of the family printed circuit board manufacturing… Read more

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    I had forgotten about the swing diagram. :)…
  • Gareth
    Gareth
    I always love reading your POV on Covey.…
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February 13, 2011

Covey’s seven habits for a digital agency – Habit 4: Win-Win or No Deal

Hearing the clichéd notion of “win-win” raises immediate concern that one party is attempting to manipulate the situation towards a less than equitable proposition.  In… Read more

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May 24, 2010

Covey’s Seven Habits for the Digital Agency – Habit 3: Putting first things first

What is the most important thing you can be doing right now? We asked ourselves that question in the studio as we munched Cocoa Pops… Read more

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May 2, 2010

Covey’s Seven Habits for the Digital Agency – Habit 2 (part 2): Finding and keeping your centre

What would you consider your centre?  Where are your values focused and from where do you draw your security, guidance, wisdom, and power?  These are… Read more

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    Allen
    The diagram on Finding your Center. Once you…
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April 8, 2010

Covey’s Seven Habits for the Digital Agency – Habit 2: Keeping the end in mind (the java jedi mind trick)

If you have dealt with anyone you have considered a “client” or “customer”, you join millions who have followed a fairly typical five-step approach.  You… Read more

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March 9, 2010

Covey’s Seven Habits for the Digital Agency – Habit 1: Be proactive

We recently started a morning “breakfast club” in the studio, and first topic is the desktop reading of Covey’s .Seven Habits of Highly Effective People…. Read more

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