1. Hullo, my covey! What's the row?

2. A covey of teenage girls strolled by, their hands tucked into their back pockets.

3. The four resulting stacks correlate with the Covey Quadrants.

4. Pleased to have found a covey, I started back.

5. But Allen thought Covey had made a mistake by starting with a personal or corporate mission before figuring out what steps to take.

6. Stephen Covey calls this working within your circle of influence and it's a much more comfortable and effective place to operate from than stressing over things that are totally beyond your control.

7. Mrs. Covey is shocked when she hears of this step.

8. Dr. Steven Covey’s classic discussion of the Time Quadrant is relevant here.

9. Finally, Covey also understands that life can’t be all business all the time so the last section is dedicated to renewing yourself so you don’t miss out on the important things in life.

10. Dr. Covey compares being in the world today to being in permanent whitewater: "We live in a constant, churning, changing environment.

11. Stephen Covey presents this habit as the most important principle of inter-personal relations.

12. Stephen Covey, the self-help guru and author of the best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, lists as one of the habits “Begin with the end in mind.”

13. As Stephen Covey says, 'Seek first to understand' -- knowing why this person's behavior bugs you is the first step to changing your reaction to it.

14. The Big Nurse comes into the day room with her covey of student nurses and her basket of notes.

15. As the late afternoon sun slants down, I wander the ruins of Quispiguanca with Alan Covey, the archaeologist from SMU.

16. They let me stumble about on the trails for a time before my clumsiness flushed a covey of doves from their rest.

17. In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey tells us that the first step to a better life is the realization that we are free to choose how to react to circumstances.

18. The turbulence of the software and systems delivery space defines our era of constant change, which author Stephen R. Covey compares to steering through a river's whitewater rapids.

19. The CEO must manage the enterprise as a symphony conductor, getting all parts of the enterprise to play “ensemble, ” or with “synergy, ” to use Stephen Covey’s term.

20. I’ll also say that I think some of this is an “Urgent” versus “Important but not Urgent” scenario, using the timeless Steven Covey framework. Cutting short-term costs is usually urgent.

21. Forget David Allen and “Getting Things Done”. So long Stephen Covey and your Seven Habits.

22. In his book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey often stresses that we need to begin with the end in mind.