Dotmad (on .Net)

Become more effective in achieving your goals

I'm currently in the lecture "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", aimed for IT managers (mostly non-developers):

• Society tends to be focused on developing technical skills instead of better behavioral models.
• See-Do-Get Loop: Your actions are affected by your perception, and this leads to results, which in turn affect (again) your perception (feedback loop).
• Therefor it's harder to change "DO" habits because you are fight habits you already have, so the focus should be on paradigm change - changing your perception.
• Seven effective habits:
  1. Being pro-active - don't react to a situation, but choose where and how to initiate action (don't be led to responses)
  2. Begin with a defined goal in mind
  3. Begin with the important stuff
  4. Win/Win thinking
  5. Diagnose before your prescribe (try understanding the other before being understood)
  6. Create synergy
  7. "Make the saw sharper" - keep working to develop better skills and acquiring new ones