Study on Leadership and Responsibility

Running head: LEADERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY
Leadership and Responsibilities
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey is one of the popular
books in the category of self-help, which was published in the year 1988. With record sales of
over 10 million copies, the book is one of the best selling of its domain. The universal ideas of
effectiveness principal that have been mentioned within the book can be adopted by people under
all types of profession that will help them to seek maximum achievable success in all respective
fields. The purpose of the current study is to provide my own personal experience about the ideas
that has been mentioned by the authors about the principles of effectives. I will also mention
about the principles of the book that has been effective in my life since I became aware about the
relevant facts related to the book.
The central idea of the book revolves around the principles that the path to achieve
success in the professional life by gaining effectiveness will remain same throughout all ages.
The idea of true north principal is highly effective according to me is due to the fact that it help
to focus upon the ways to improve the ethical aspects of one’s individual character. The morality
of an individual’s character has a strong influence in the overall success that is obtained in the
professional career. Hence, I believe it is highly critical to modify the elements of one’s
character according to the effective principals that has been mentioned within the book of Covey.
With rapid changes that have been occurring in the fast moving world of modern days, people
across all types of professions are commonly adopting unethical ways to achieve success. This I
believe is mainly due to the lack of ability to endure some objective for longer period. The main
objective of the book is to raise resolve the issues that are encountered by the society due to all

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types of unethical principals that are adopted to achieve success at individual level. The book
have strongly focused upon the ideas related to the paradigm shift, which can help to overcome
the barriers related to individual level of barriers to get the effective level of information needed
to improve the professional career.
The book of at the concept of Seven Habits that I believe can be adopted by all successful
professional Corporate in order to make improvements in personal career. The primary habit that
is mentioned within the book is about being independence, which will provide us the opportunity
to gain the ability of self mastery. Being proactive is a primary element offering independence.
As we are being more proactive, it is possible to overcome the challenges from beforehand. One
of the essential characters that are needed to improve upon the prospect of an individual’s
corporate life is to have effective skill of interpersonal communication. A proactive individual
will also be eager to improve upon their interpersonal skill of communication that can help them
to overcome all future challenges. It is also possible to improve over individual skills that are
needed to stay advance within the workplace.
Second most important element or habit that has been mentioned in the book is to have a
clear idea about the future perspective. An individual needs to have a clear idea about what they
want in the future career. This I believe will help them to plan better in the present. As an
individual is constantly, able to review they are mission in personal and professional level it can
be possible for them to make necessary change in the character and personal habits. The
individual can also decide upon the path they want to follow depending upon their strengths and
weakness that can help them to achieve success in personal and professional life.