Cameron Resources Internal Newsletter: 7 Habits & Leadership

This report presents an internal business newsletter created for Cameron Resources, a recruiting company, focusing on Stephen Covey's 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People'. The newsletter aims to encourage staff to attend a leadership retreat by exploring the book's main ideas. It covers key concepts such as being proactive, prioritizing tasks, beginning with the end in mind, thinking win-win, seeking to understand, synergizing, and sharpening the saw. The newsletter includes a summary of the book, recommendations, inspirational quotes, and advice for leaders and employees, emphasizing the importance of self-acceptance, communication, and leadership. The report also highlights opportunities for employee development and provides a review of the book's impact on workplace dynamics. This document, available on Desklib, showcases the application of Covey's principles in a professional context, with a focus on enhancing leadership and communication skills within an organization.

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- By Stephen Covey
The book was first published in the year 1989. This book is based on self-help. The book
describes the importance of goal attainment according the ethics of one’s character. Covey
simplifies the demonstration with the example of simple fable of ‘the goose that laid golden
eggs’. Covey describes the notion of paradigm shift of different perspective of different people.
All the habits mentioned in this book intended to achieve individual independence.
The habits mentioned in this book are effective for each individual irrespective of the
profession. According to Covey, the seven habits an individual must possess are mentioned as
follows (Books, 2017).
 Be proactive – It refers to the ability to take the responsibility of one’s own activity. It
requires constant review of the individual’s mission and vision. Clarification should be
there considering the position a person may achieve in near future.
 First thing first – It is referring to the distinguishing elements between leadership and
management. According to this book, leadership speaks about differentiating the tasks
according to the urgency. Covey mentioned an order for determining the urgency of
tasks. The order is – urgent and important, not urgent but important, urgent but not
important, and not urgent and not important.
 Begin with the end in mind – It is referring to having the vision to work in accordance
with the planned schedule. Focusing on the responses and initiate the activity with
constant expansion.

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 Think win win – it refers to possess an winning attitude for every assignment one
perform during the course of their profession.
 First seek to understand, then to be understood – having empathetic nature for
understanding is a wise decision. It has a greater incorporation with Greek Philosophy
(Ethos, Pathos, and Logos).
 Synergize – it refers to combining the strengths and provide a positive attitude for
teamwork.
 Sharpen to view growth – It is the process to balance the resources within an individual.
It helps to create long term effect in the field of individual growth.
Anniversaries or milestones
Jim Collins foreword the 25th anniversary edition of this book to give a tribute to Covey
family for the highly effective father. According to Jim Collin, Covey emphasized on the concept
of self-renewal in the field of leadership and creativity.
Ten reasons for recommending this book
 It gives you chance to interpret yourself from the perspective of the world.
 The book is inspirational enough to initiate positive action in near future.
 Instead of improvement one can expand the self.
 One can break down the limitation for the self.
 An individual can create own projects to monitor the growth.
 The book allows a person to enjoy the spirit of learning.
 It develops a sense of self-acceptance within an individual.

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 The book will help to handle the internal and external conflicts a person encounter in
professional life.
 It provides a scope to priorities one’s responsibilities any further (Diver, 2018).
 After achieving the true essence of the book one can enjoy the feeling of true happiness
with self-satisfaction.
Behind the scenes
The elements in this book mentions the seven habits one should possess to become
efficient individual being. Practicing the seven habits will provide the individual a defined target
to achieve in the near future.
Recommendation for additional reading
This book belongs to the genre of self-help. There are other books on the same concept
that will allow the readers to conduct a comparative study and implement the acquired
knowledge in near future. The list of the books include
 My exaggerated Life by Pat Conroy
 The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
 The Myth of Male Power by Dr. Warren Farrel
Inspirational Quotes
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way” – John C. Maxwell
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are
a leader” – John Quincy Adams

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“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do let them surprise you with their
results.” – George S. Patton
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are
least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down – Charles F.
Kettering.
Business changes
Every individual employee possess different perception for the leadership of the
organization. Strict leadership enables negative impact on the workforce environment. Hence,
the book discloses that leadership should embody the change the employees want to see within
the organization. The book gives a lesson to the leaders to manage and motivate the employees
who are the basic pillars of an organization.
General advice
 Rational reading of the book will help the employees and leaders to implement the use of
these seven habits.
 These will change the employees’ perspective towards leadership.
 An individual will be able to understand the importance of self-acceptance or self-
actualization.
 According to Arianna Huffington, this book will help to retain the physical, spiritual and
mental health of a particular individual being.
Getting access to the book

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One can directly buy the book from the stores. There are e-books available for reading
purpose. The e-books enhances the availability for the common readers. One can easily study the
review about the book before purchasing it from the stores.
Opportunities
The company values the true meaning of the book. The development program is based on
the actual essence of the book. The training opportunity will help the employees to develop the
seven habits mentioned in the book by Stephen Covey.
Reviews
According to the critique the book has a positive impact on the readers. In the domain of
self-help, this particular example will be truly effective for the employees to positively handle
the workplace pressure. It will allow the leaders to manage the workforce environment with
efficient implementation of all the habits.

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References
Books, W. (2017). Summary and Analysis of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful
Lessons in Personal Change: Based on the Book by Steven R. Covey. Open Road Media.
Diver, A. J. (2018). Can Covey's 7 Habits Produce a Highly Effective Plastic Surgeon?.