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Date: 4 Dec 1994 08:07 EST
From: Michael O'Rourke (Michael_O'Rourke_Patterson@HUD.GOV)
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Source: AGREE ( Improve Leadership and Management of Executive Branch )
Current Status: DEFERRED
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Steven Covey, who coined the word "proactive", wrote books like "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", and "Principle Centered Leadership", offers the best framework for realizing the goals cited above. Tom Peters offers good ideas, and so do others, but none of them have the vision and breadth of Covey's work. You can order a free guide for developing mission statements, his free unique weekly time prioritizer and planner, &c. from 1-800-255-0777. For example, when I called training "sharpening the saw", from Covey's retelling of the old story of the man too busy cutting wood to sharpen his tools, my boss instantly understood my point. The proactive things I do, few as they are, never fail to delight and amaze clients. They stare at me in disbelief that a government employee would not only want to satisfy their request, but even ask questions to understand their needs better and meet them better. I wish my Department used his training, in place of the expensive stuff they have now which all staff disregard. His stuff very nicely ties everything discussed here in one neat package. We do so many piecemeal, negative goals. We need "big-picture" goals that "grab people in the guts", that engage their emotions, that make them want to throw their hearts and souls into their work. Covey offers a path to proactivity. I want to work in an office where more than half the people put their hearts into their work, where they stay a little later, willingly, where they willingly do job-related stuff at home because they like their jobs so much. Covey offers the only path I've ever seen. I was in a workplace which was run similarly. We did things our bosses imagined were impossible. We saw potential where they didn't. But that is it, isn't it, one must first see the invisible in order to do the impossible.

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