Presented to PSA-Dallas by John Raymond Stone Mascio



1/7/97

This presentation is based on the work of Dr. Covey and is an 

overview of some fairly detailed and complex material.



Some of you will find it valuable, others will not ?click?. 

There is no real ?New Material?, but only a new structure. 

The material is all common knowledge and most of you will 

know it already. All Covey is doing, is tying all the ?bits 

and pieces? in to a coherent whole.

Habits 1-3 - Private victory - the foundation

1) Habit of Personal Vision

2) Habit of Personal Leadership

3) Habit of Personal Management



Habits 4-6 - Public victory - Leadership

4) Habit of Interpersonal Leadership

5) Habit of Communication

6) Habit of Creative Cooperation



Habit 7 - maintaining balance, growth, PC, education

7) Habit of Self-Renewal

Definitions and slides to follow.

Habits are patterns of behavior composed of 3 over-lapping 

components:

          * Skills: how to

          * Knowledge: what to, why to

          * Desire: want to



Learned not inherited, therefore of our second nature not 

first nature



We are NOT our habits.



In the essay ?The common denominator of Success? Albert E. 

Gray says, ?All successful people have the habit of doing the 

things failures don?t like to do. The don?t like doing them 

either, necessarily, but their dislike is subordinated to the 

strength of purpose.?



Successful people daily weave habits of effectiveness into 

their lives to achieve the desired results. Dislike for a 

task is subordinated to the goal.

Covey found in the first 150 years of the US, the Success 

Literature concerned itself with the "Character Ethic" over 

personality development. Traits like, temperance, sincerity, 

humility, courage, integrity, honesty, industry, and thrift.



The character ethic taught that there are certain principle 

of effective living that can not be violated if one wishes to 

be "successful".



Since the 1930's the emphasis has shifted to personality or 

influence techniques, methods, and skills. They are geared 

toward "quick and painless" results. It teaches success is a 

function of public image, of attitudes and behaviors, skills 

and formulas that lubricate the process of human interaction. 

Often becoming manipulative or deceptive.

Character is what we are, not how we act (technique). We can 

change techniques and still be who we are. We have a constant 

inner core that guides and directs our actions in a 

consistent fashion.



Techniques w/o character can appear to be deceptive or 

manipulative.

A principle.



Habit are powerful forces in our lives. They can hold us 

back, or keep us on course. They are consistent and 

unconscious patterns that allow us to express our character 

and produce or effectiveness --- or our ineffectiveness.

Results are only part of effectiveness. A key part, but only 

part. It also has the second dimension of enhancing and 

preserving our assets.



Our assets are: physical health, mental alertness, emotional 

stability, skills, knowledge, values, and relationships. Not 

just Money, equipment and buildings.