Covey - The 7 habits of highly effective people
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<strong>The</strong> principles involved in stewardship delegation are correct and applicable to any kind<br />
<strong>of</strong> person or situation. With immature <strong>people</strong>, you specify fewer desired results and more<br />
guidelines, identify more resources, conduct more frequent accountability interviews,<br />
and apply more immediate consequences. With more mature <strong>people</strong>, you have more<br />
challenging desired results, fewer guidelines, less frequent accountability, and less<br />
measurable but more discernible criteria.<br />
Effective delegation is perhaps the best indicator <strong>of</strong> <strong>effective</strong> management simply because<br />
it is so basic to both personal and organizational growth.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Quadrant II Paradigm<br />
<strong>The</strong> key to <strong>effective</strong> management <strong>of</strong> self, or <strong>of</strong> others through delegation, is not in any<br />
technique or tool or extrinsic factor. It is intrinsic -- in the Quadrant II paradigm that<br />
empowers you to see through the lens <strong>of</strong> importance rather than urgency.<br />
I have included in the Appendix an exercise called "A Quadrant II Day at the Office"<br />
which will enable you to see in a business setting how powerfully this paradigm can<br />
impact your <strong>effective</strong>ness. As you work to develop a Quadrant II paradigm, you will<br />
increase your ability to organize and execute every week <strong>of</strong> your life around your deepest<br />
priorities, to walk your talk. You will not be dependent on any other person or thing for<br />
the <strong>effective</strong> management <strong>of</strong> your life.<br />
Interestingly, every one <strong>of</strong> the Seven Habits is in Quadrant II. Every one deals with<br />
fundamentally important things that, if done on a regular basis, would make a<br />
tremendous positive difference in our lives.<br />
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