During a recent conversation with a friend of mine who works in sales, he made reference to "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People". (Sales - wouldn't ya know it!)
Although I had never heard of it before, he assured me it is an enormously popular self help book. So I looked it up.
The following, in case you are wondering, are the habits or highly effective people:
- Be Proactive.
- Begin with the End In Mind.
- Put First Things First.
- Think Win/Win.
- Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood.
- Synergize.
- Sharpen the saw.
I would suggested that the aforementioned habits could be marketed just as effectively as a Beginners Guide to Serial Killing.
5 comments:
Oh God. I went on a management training course with my last job and they spent 3 days reiterating this list under various forms in an attempt to make us efficient people. *shudder* Maybe that explains my serial killer tendencies since.
Sounds fascinating - or is that mind numbingly excruciating?
A mate came back from one of those tony robbins motivation lectures last year and couldn't hold a conversation without spewing incredibly irritating 'sales talk' every few minutes. "Blue sky thinking" my friggin swinging mickey!
"Begin with the end in mind." Trying to figure out the desirable/likely end result is the number one thing that stops me doing any work. Effective my arse.
Years ago when I worked in a bookstore one of the sections I had to run was business where that covey book was a big seller.
All the dudes who bought it looked like potential serial killers or wife beaters.
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