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In a recent issue of Time Magazine, there is an interview with Stephen Covey about his new book, The Leader in Me, which tells how several principals nationwide applied his "7 Habits" to their schools. Included in the book and article are Combs Elementary, where principal Muriel Summers developed a leadership magnet school.
In the interview, Covey noted that Combs made the 7 Habits its value system, so that when "teaching a science class with a team experiment, the instructor would say [to the team], You came up with a solution that was better than either one of you proposed separately. But look at what you had to do to get there. You had to discipline yourself. That's Habit 1: Be proactive. You also had to come up with a vision, or the second habit, Begin with the end in mind. Then you lived by that and practiced what you learned -- Habit 3: First things first. So little by little it became part of the culture of that school. So everyone became, in a sense, a leader, even if you were the leader of cleaning the classroom."
You can find the article here.
Posted by Bill Poston at 10:30 AM on December 2, 2008 | Leave Feedback
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