The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey

* Habit 1: Be Proactive
Synopsis: Take initiative in life by realizing that your decisions (and how they align with life's principles) are the primary determining factor for effectiveness in your life. Take responsibility for your choices and the subsequent consequences that follow.
* Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Synopsis: Self-discover and clarify your deeply important character values and life goals. Envision the ideal characteristics for each of your various roles and relationships in life.
* Habit 3: Put First Things First
Synopsis: Plan, prioritize, and execute your week's tasks based on importance rather than urgency. Evaluating if your efforts exemplify your desired character values, propel you towards goals, and enrich the roles and relationships that were elaborated in Habit 2.
The next three have to do with Interdependence (i.e. working with others)
* Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Synopsis: Genuinely strive for mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Valuing and respecting people by understanding a "win" for all is ultimately a better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had gotten his way.
* Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
Synopsis: Use empathetic listening to be genuinely influenced by a person, which compels them to reciprocate the listening and take an open mind to being influenced by you. This creates an atmosphere of caring, respect, and positive problem solving.
* Habit 6: Synergize
Synopsis: Combine the strengths of people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals no one person could have done alone. Get the best performance out of a group of people through encouraging meaningful contribution, and modeling inspirational and supportive leadership.
The Last habit relates to self-rejuvenation:
* Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Synopsis: Balance and renew your resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle.

this was part of an administrative course I had to take for my masters 




carry on 


(salutes everyone)

Habit 9: Don't get caught.

Habit 11:  Bapu.
Synopsis: Am.

13. Grab your company's logo and colors and do a flashy Powerpoint using lots of buzz words like best of breed, synergies, sunsetting, rationalization, low hanging fruit, and so on ad nauseum.  Be sure to have an org chart showing your CEO (or boss) on top like the sun god or something with an aura around him/her.  Have a generous sprinkling of acronyms that you can even make up.  People will  be afraid to ask what they are, and if they do, you can just say it's above their pay grade.

Rules rule!

Bruces

15. Attempt to crush others whose solutions appear to work better than your own.
(Edison electrocuting an elephant with AC power to show how much more dangerous it is than DC power.  Edison, and others, claimed an AC generator was impossible, but Nikola Tesla did it and partnered with Westinghouse.)

Katie - Thanks for the other ones about Edison.  Have often suspected he got more credit than he deserved.

12. Steal other people's ideas and tout them as your own.
 
"Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you’re working on." - UbiquitousBubba.
I.E
Light Bulb -  UbiquitousBubba  (CoffeeHouse)
Phonograph -  UbiquitousBubba (CoffeeHouse)
Motion Pictures - UbiquitousBubba (CoffeeHouse) 
 

7 and 8.   Steal other people's ideas and tout them as your own.

"Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you’re working on." - Karyn.
I.E
Light Bulb - Karyn (CoffeeHouse)
Phonograph - Karyn (CoffeeHouse)
Motion Pictures - Karyn (CoffeeHouse)

(lost count): Sell to idiots.

Synopsis: There are people who will buy anything if you make claims about "aligning energies" or use crystals.

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???: Think of Ethical Challenges not as challenges but as opportunities.

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17. When you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your Bull-S***.

That's how I fell in love with Bapu 

And the rest is history.