The challenges and complexity we all face in our relationships families professional lives and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude.

In order to thrive innovate excel and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age we must build on and move beyond effectiveness.

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to greatness.

Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in todays new reality requires a sea change of new thinking a new mindset a new skillset a new toolset in short a whole new habit.

Stephen R.

Covey is an internationally respected leadership authority family expert teacher organizational consultant founder of the former Covey Leadership Center and cochairman of Franklin Covey Co.

He has made teaching PrincipleCentered Living and PrincipleCentered Leadership his life s work.

He holds an M.

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from Harvard and a doctorate from B.

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where he was a professor of organizational behavior and business management and also served as director of university relations and assistant to the president.

For more than thirty years he has taught millions of individuals and families and leaders in business education and government the transforming power of principles or natural laws that govern human and organizational effectiveness.

Dr.

Covey is the author of several acclaimed books including The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People which has been at the top of the bestseller lists for more than ten years and was chosen by readers of Chief Executive magazine as the number one most influential book of the twentieth century.

More than twelve million copies have been sold in thirtytwo languages and seventy countries.

His books PrincipleCentered Leadership and First Things First are two of the bestselling