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Research Paper on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Author: Daniel Nase  | Posted: 01-12-2007 | Comments: 0 | Views: 42 | Rating: (72)  (?) 
 This book shows us “How habits affect our character” and “how character affects our destiny”.1 It encourages us to live by specific “principles”, which represent the seven habits of highly effective people.2 There are many more principles that contribute to your overall success, but these ones are specifically geared to help you build a foundation for maturity, accomplishing your goals, and continuous growth. The seven habits help us develop into highly effective people by living them everyday. Habits are the convergence of knowledge, skill, and desire. This book also explains how we move through the maturity continuum by adopting the principles of each stage in our daily lives. Initially, we start as dependent people working towards independence and the private victory. If we learn the first three habits, we move from dependence to independence.
The first habit is “Be Proactive”.3 Have you ever lived your life in reactive mode? You feel like you have very little control over what happens to you. You are always stressed and trying to put out fires at the last minute. Deadlines are past due and your boss is not happy with your performance. You take you spouse for granted. Your relationships with family, friends, and your significant other are weak or deteriorating.
You get up, go to work, and do the same robotic things every day of your life. Sounds like hell, doesn’t it? Being proactive is a lot like being motivated and organized. It is setting priorities and timelines, and working towards your goals everyday. It means always having a gap or buffer created by being ahead of your personal and professional expectations. Imagine how much better your life would be “at home” and at work by taking a more proactive approach to what is really important.4 After we live the first habit, we focus on the second habit.
The second habit is “Begin with the end in mind”.5 This means that we are always focus on our goals and making sure that are efforts and behaviors align with those goals. It requires that we monitor ourselves and consider the details that will influence our lives both personally and professionally. After we live the second habit, we focus on the third habit.
The third habit is “Put first things first”.6 This means that we prioritize what is most important and work on those things first. Covey used the example of having an executive put all the big rocks in a glass container. The big rocks represented what is most important. After the big rocks were in the container, they poured in the small rocks. The small rocks represented the things that were not important. However, if they put the small rocks in first, they would not be able to fit the big rocks in the glass container. After we live the third habit, we become “independent”.7 Now we start working towards interdependence and the public victory. If we learn habits four through six, we move from independence to interdependence.
The fourth habit is “Think win / win”.8 This means creating a situation that is better than compromising, which is lose / lose. It is also better than win / lose, which is the private victory at the expense of others. Win / win means that both parties get what they want. One thing that I noticed is that it is easy to create win / win situations when you are being proactive and much harder when you are being reactive. I think this is more than just psychology; being reactive dramatically reduces your options. After we live the fourth habit, we focus on the fifth habit.
The fifth habit is “Seek first to understand, then to be understood”.9 This means that we must understand others and show that we value their point of view before we can create win / win situations, resolve conflicts, and focus on the public victory. How do you feel when someone voices their demands and ignores your feedback or point of view? You may not want to help in any way, because a person that only thinks of their own needs is selfish and they do not care about your situation. After we live the fifth habit, we focus on the sixth habit.
The sixth habit is “Synergize”.10 This means working as a team and working towards becoming a highly effective team by building “trust”, respect, and inspiring people by showing consistent leadership and successes over a long period of time.11 After we live the sixth habit, we become interdependent. Now we work on the seventh habit to improve our effectiveness.
The seventh habit is “Sharpen the saw”.12 This means that we periodically review our goals and behaviors to determine whether we are living the seven habits.
Studying the seven habits alone will not change our lives unless we are willing to change and examine our thinking and even our perceptions. It means learning them to the degree that they are second nature in everything we do. You can ask any great martial artist, athlete, or expert what the secret to their success was, and they will most likely tell you practice and attitude. Practice is making an investment in ourselves and consistently improving our skills, our habits, and our effectiveness. It is also “investing in others” by building teams. Attitude mirrors “emotional intelligence”, because it influences whether we quit when fail or learn from it, dust ourselves off, and keep working towards our goals.
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Covey, Stephen. “The 7 habits of highly effective families.” Working Mother 1997: 43.
Covey, Stephen. “Covey on Trust.” Training & Development 1996: 50.
Covey, Stephen. “Investing in people.” Nursing Management 2003: 32.
Covey, Stephen. “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989
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About the Author:Daniel Nase
Serial Entrepreneur, Writer, Inventor
Daniel Nase is the Chief Executive Officer of Real Estate Pros in beautiful Southern California and the former CEO and Managing Director of Infinity Group. Infinity Group consisted of Infinity Financial Services, Infinity Productions, Infinity Home Improvement, Infinity Home Mortgages, Nase Consulting, Sunrise Charity Foundation, and the Wealth Building Foundation. Daniel has built and designed numerous companies and hired, trained and managed literally thousands of contactors and employees.
At age 15 Daniel attended Pacific Lutheran University in the Advance College Program and spent a lot of his time reading graduate papers in the university’s library. Many of his instructors and mentors were amazed with his ability to think outside the box in business, medicine, mathematics, chemistry and physics. Daniel started working on advanced calculus, Riemann equations and theoretical physics while he was attending Washington High School. He also participated in Air Force JROTC and earned a private pilots license through Clover Park Technical College.
Daniel joined the military at age 16 with parent permission and worked as an Apache / Chinook Helicopter Mechanic for several years before being recommended for an elite officer program in the Nuclear Field. For three years he was engaged in the Navy’s rigorous training program in Advanced Electronics and Nuclear Physics in Orlando Florida. He graduated at the top of his class and spent 9 months in the Mediterranean before being honorably discharged.
Daniel was promoted faster than any other manager in history at Primerica for his strong work ethics and strategic planning ability and was regarded by his direct managers as a Senior Vice President in Training for consistently recruiting and training 300 new contractors per month. Daniel Nase is also an expert negotiator and built multiple strategic alliances with large companies including All Fund Mortgage and USA Holdings – Fixed Division as an EVP.
Daniel designed and built the AMTECH Thermonuclear Converter at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in July of 1997. This nuclear device provides electricity to deep space satellites and was created during the Pathfinder Mission. He also worked on X-ray tubes, electroplating, making silicon carbide crystals, electronic drafting, and generating 3D images in Silicon using two scanning lasers. He earned this prestigious summer internship through the MSEP program with Scott Minnix at the University of Washington and Linda Rodgers at NASA.
In 1997 and 1998 Daniel helped build a mainframe computer from scratch as part of the Work Study Program. He also learned basic AutoCAD and networked all of the computers in the University’s four-story Astrophysics building. After he built the mainframe, Daniel ran tests and recorded events in the University of Washington’s fusion reactor and also worked on the RAM Accelerator.
Daniel took a non-executive role in Infinity Group to work as an Installation / Retrofit Engineer III for several years in the semiconductor industry. This is were he applied his training in the military by doing work in network engineering, applications engineering, robotics, UV optics, pneumatics and advanced electronics troubleshooting for KLA-Tencor Corp. He was responsible for installing and aligning Starlight and Lightning series reticle inspection systems throughout the world. This gave him the opportunity to improve his speaking ability in German, Japanese and French.
Daniel is a very talented Strategic Planner and possesses a unique gift for Corporate Finance and solving complex business problems. Daniel Nase actively performed as a Business Consultant with Nase Consulting in a wide array of industries over the last five years with focuses mainly on Project Management, Human Resources and Corporate Finance. Mainly, he assisted his mentors with PhD’s because he hadn’t earned his MBA yet. Daniel Nase was also trained as a tax planner, stock broker and financial advisor at American Express. He realized that direct sales was not his passion and decided to take a different career path as a Project Manager, HR Manager or Executive with a great company.
Recently, Daniel worked as the Managing Director in Training for K Group, he assisted the current Managing Director with overseeing global operations in the US, China, India, and Singapore. The holdings of K Group included two universities, an enterprise software / IT company, a textbook publisher, a movie productions company and a non-profit association for international businesses.
Daniel would best be described as a very creative, visionary leader. He is loyal, organized, self-motivated and is both highly capable of leading, managing and implementing large projects as he is able to pay attention to details and develop highly effective business strategies in Marketing, Operations, Finance, and R&D.
Daniel Nase
Email: daniel.nase@gmail.com
Cell: 253-230-6617
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