By applying the 8th Habit, we can truly achieve greatness at all levels: • Personal Greatness, as we discover our 3 birth-gifts, and cultivate them to demonstrate vision, discipline, passion and conscience; • Leadership Greatness, as we choose to find our voice and inspire others, regardless of our position; and • Organizational Greatness, as organizations systematically unlock, align and direct people’s potential toward higher goals.
Book Summary - The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
The challenges we face today are not due to technology or globalization, but the inability to harness human potential.
Mankind has an unprecedented amount of choice, and we don’t know what to do with it. We’re living in the Age of Information/ Knowledge Worker (IKW), but still thinking and operating like the Industrial Age.
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.
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
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.
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.
We’re all born with “birth-gifts” of talents, intelligences and infinite potential
Three of your most important birth-gifts are: the freedom to choose, natural laws/ principles, and 4 intelligences/ capacities (mental, physical, emotional and spiritual).
Your voice (or calling) is where your talents, passion, and conscience converge with what the world needs.
. Apply your talents (natural gifts and strengths), passion (what naturally excites, energizes, and motivates you), to a human need (which people are willing to pay for), that calls to your conscience (the quiet, small voice inside that tells you what’s right)
Through their struggles, they expanded and manifested their 4 intelligences via 4 attributes: their Vision, Discipline, Passion and Conscience
