Stephen R. Covey on Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Team, Great Results

Stephen R. Covey

Jan 2012 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Stephen R. Covey

About this audiobook

From the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes this audiobook on becoming the best leader you can be.

Great organizations are created by great leaders—leaders who can unleash the highest and best contributions of their teams toward their organizations' most critical strategic priorities.

It takes a “mind-set, skill-set, tool-set” approach to developing leaders who can unleash the talent and capability of their team against the organization's highest priorities. In addition to drawing from a proven legacy of developing effective leaders, Stephen Covey also taps into the best thinking of well-known leadership experts, including Fred Reichheld, Clayton Christensen, and Stephen M. R. Covey.

This program addresses the specific challenges leaders face every day including:

-Building trust and influence with others
-Defining a team's purpose and the "job to be done"
-Creating a strategic link between the work of the team and the goals of the organization
-Connecting the work of the team to the organizations economic model
-Aligning the four essential systems of execution, talent, core work processes, and customer feedback

About the author

Recognized as one of Time magazine’s twenty-five most influential Americans, Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) was an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author. His books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in thirty-eight languages, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. After receiving an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University, he became the cofounder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, a leading global training firm.