The first part of the book focuses on how to find your voice – this includes using your birth-rights or birth-gifts, and expressing your voice. To do this, you need to (a) find your unique personal voice, then, (b) embrace leadership as a choice and inspire others to find their voices. Get a detailed overview of the implications of the IKW age, learn more about the whole-person paradigm, and understand what it means to take the Path of Mediocrity vs the Path of Greatness from our full 15-page book summary. The key of this era is to unlock human potential by recognizing the Whole-Person, and this is what the 8th habit is about – unlocking a third dimension to the 7 habits, to move from “effectiveness” to “greatness”. For the IKW Age, we need a shift to the “Whole-Person Paradigm”, to recognize that people are not “things” to be controlled and motivated, but complete beings with mind, body, heart and spirit. To make quantum leaps and thrive in this new era, we need to change the lenses from which we view our world. In the book, Stephen Covey details how each shift in civilization brought paradigm shifts in thinking, a displacement of 90% of traditional jobs, with a productivity improvement of 50 times. We’re living in the Age of Information/ Knowledge Worker (IKW), but still thinking and operating like the Industrial Age. Mankind has an unprecedented amount of choice, and we don’t know what to do with it. The challenges we face today are not due to technology or globalization, but the inability to harness human potential. Besides the human pain, there’s a significant cost of not harnessing our workforce’s potential, and of personal and organizational failure. There’s a gap because we all possess huge potential and desire to live a life of contribution and meaning, yet most of us are not thriving in our organizations, and are feeling dis-empowered. In this free version of The 8th Habit summary, we’ll give a synopsis of the big ideas from the book.ĭespite all our technological and productivity breakthroughs, people are feeling frustrated, lost, stressed, empty, and insecure. The 8th Habit adds a new dimension to Stephen Covey’s best-selling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to address how we can unlock human potential and greatness. However, to address the root of our challenges today, we must go beyond effectiveness, to unlock the greatness in each of us. Without knowing the right things to do, people can’t keep up with the rapid changes, much less deliver results. In today’s ever-changing world, being effective is no longer a choice – it’s a requirement.
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