Stephen R. Covey, who adopts a principle-centered approach in solving personal, professional, and family problems and is one of the pioneers of the total quality approach; based on striking examples gradually determines the habits that enable us to keep up with change for an honest, harmonious, peaceful and prosperous life, and shows the ways to reach the wisdom and power necessary to benefit from the opportunities created by change.
From a very early age we are accustomed to breaking down problems, dividing the world. Although this makes it easier for us to deal with complex tasks and issues, we pay a high, unseen price in return. Henceforth, we cannot see the results of our actions, and we lose our ability to connect it to a further stage. When we try to see the painting as a whole, we try to put the pieces together again in our minds, to sort and arrange all the pieces. However, this is a futile effort, we cannot achieve the real image by combining the parts of a broken mirror. The tools and ideas presented in the Fifth Discipline are meant to destroy the illusion that the world was created from separate, unrelated forces. The day we give up on this illusion, we can establish "learning organizations". In such organizations, people constantly expand their capacities to achieve the results they want. New and enthusiastic ways of thinking are nurtured, collective aspirations are not curbed. People are constantly learning how to learn together. As said in an issue of Fortune magazine, "Forget your old, worn-out ideas about leadership. The most successful company of the 1990s will be something called a learning organization." Our ability to learn faster than our competitors may be our only competitive advantage. As the world becomes more interconnected and more complex and dynamic features predominate in business, work should be more "learner". The Fifth Discipline is a candidate to be every manager's bedside book.
Yes, you can do, achieve and attain anything you want in life. Robbins, the greatest master of the magic of mental power, with these subtleties; the state of your mind determines what you can be, what you can do and what you can't do, all successful outcomes can be modeled and how to reprogram your mind to dispel fears, how to improve your relationships with others, how to be a persuasive communicator and how to instantly resonate with anyone you meet, as you explain how to remodel other people's success for yourself, how to master the five keys to wealth and happiness, to True Success; His enthusiasm infects everyone like an epidemic.
Robbins calls it the new science of personal success. And you will call it the best thing you have ever encountered in your life.