7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Author: Mao Yong
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Are you willing to work like a camel without complaining? Do your interests change like a chameleon? Are your life goals persistent like a snail? Is your thinking bold and adaptable like a gecko? Do your interpersonal relationships maintain a safe distance like hedgehogs? Is your career development flexible like an earthworm? Is your knowledge structure complex and rigid like a dinosaur? What are the key abilities of high-efficiency individuals? This book lists and elaborates on these abilities.
The First Ability: The Snail's Perseverance
If you don’t rush for success and persistently work toward a goal, you will definitely achieve it.
The Second Ability: The Earthworm's Flexibility
Endurance is a way for humans to adapt to natural selection and social competition.
The Third Ability: The Camel's Accumulation
To seize opportunities and defeat opponents, you must first learn to accumulate. Accumulate morality, character, and intelligence.
The Fourth Ability: The Chameleon's Adaptability
Handle problems flexibly according to changing and evolving circumstances.
The Fifth Ability: The Gecko's Holistic Perspective
Pursue the bigger picture. Preserving the main while sacrificing the secondary is a profound strategy—a strategy of yielding to achieve progress, retreating to advance. It is a wise and compassionate approach.
The Sixth Ability: The Hedgehog's Safe Distance
When making friends, don’t blindly trust others’ friendship. Be cautious, set up multiple defenses.
The Seventh Ability: The Dinosaur's Survival
View society and people with a changing mindset, respond to changes with constancy, and always maintain the initiative to stay invincible.
The qualities that Fortune 500 companies value in leaders and employees must include goals, compassion, and a positive work attitude in the workplace.