Centered Leadership Stephen Covey is one of the nation's most sought-after management experts, whose philosophy of management is based on trust, integrity, empowerment, and a vision of quality that's shared throughout an organization. Covey is the founder and chairman of Covey Leadership Center and has made teaching principle-centered living his life's work. Covey holds an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate from Brigham Young University, where he taught organizational behavior and business management. For more than 25 years, he has taught millions of people in business, government agencies, and educational institutions the transforming power of principles rooted in the unchanging natural laws that govern human and organizational effectiveness. In an interview with Provider magazine, Covey discussed principle-centered leadership and how it can change an organization.
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Once these principles become deeply felt in people's hearts and minds, they then align everything else toward those principles. For instance, if they decide that true teamwork and cooperation are very important, they align their information and reward systems around that. This allows an organization to adapt with change and run with it, get excited by it. When you have something that does not change, like principles, you can optimize change. When people don't have something that is changeless inside, they can't adapt to change.