HOW A LEADER DEMONSTRATE 7

HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE

PEOPLE
Group Members:
Hira Naz
Saqib Nisar
Samra Hassan
Hafsa Ramzan
Hammad Hassan
 INTRODUCTION
• Elon Musk a South African-born American the
entrepreneur was born on June 28, 1971.
• Attended Queen University in Kingston, Ontario, and the
University of Pennsylvania.
• In 1997, he received Bachelor’s degree in physics and
economics.
• Created a video game at the age of 12.
• Founder of the electronic-payment firm PayPal, SpaceX,
and Tesla.
 Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
According to famous author Stephen R Covey, there are “Seven habits of highly effective
people”:
• Habit 01: BE PROACTIVE
• Habit 02: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
• Habit 03: PUT FIRST THING FIRST
• Habit 04: THINK WIN-WIN
• Habit 05: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD
• Habit 06: SYNERGIZE
• Habit 07: SHARPEN THE SAW
 HABIT 01: BE PROACTIVE

• Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. Proactive

people recognize that they are “response-able.”

• They don’t blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for

their behavior.

• They know they can choose their behavior. Proactive people

focus their efforts on their Circle of Influence.
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 01: NETSCAPE EFFORT

• Job at Netscape
• Degree in Economics and Physics.
• Pursue his on idea and started Zip2.
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 02: SPACE X CRISES

• In June 2002, Musk founded SpaceX.
• Failure of first three rocket launches.
• Huge success of fourth launch .
• Received a contract from NASA.
HABIT 02: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND

• This habit is based on imagination, the ability to envision in your

mind what you cannot at present see with your eyes.

• It is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There
is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 01: MUSK EARLY LIFE GOAL

• Elon Musk was very clear about what he wants
• Musk's father insisted to go to college in Pretoria, Musk became
determined to move to the United States
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 02: LEAVING STUDIES AND STARTING

BUSINESS
• Leave studies
• In 1995 he founded Zip2, a company that provided maps and business
directories to online newspapers
 HABIT 03: PUT FIRST THING FIRST

• It is about life management as well as your purpose, values, roles,

and priorities.

• If you put first things first, you are organizing and managing time
and events according to the personal priorities
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 01: SCHEDULING

• He follows a very detailed and specific daily schedule
• He breaks his calendar into five-minute slots
• Things that seem to be not much of importance are left to do later.
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 02: STRATEGIC MULTITASKING

• Musk multi-task strategically because without this skill managing three
companies will be quite impossible.
 HABIT 04: THINK WIN-WIN
• Win-Win sees life as corporative arena not competitive
• This habit lead towards a change in personality
• We just not see the profit but also seek for providing appropriate benefit
to customers
• If not following we would lose opportunities
• E.g., UBER
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 01: BUYING TWITER

• IN APRIL 2022, MUSK DECIDED TO BID FOR THE ENTIRE
COMPANY AT A VALUE OF $54.20 a share for $44 billion
• He said I want to make twitter better than ever
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 02: FOLLOW THE BLISS

• Space X is emphasizing Win-Win situation
HABIT 05: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN
TO BE UNDERSTOOD

• In order to seek to understand, we must learn to listen.

• Before we can offer advice, suggest solutions, or effectively interact

with another person in any way, we must seek to deeply understand them
and their perspective through empathic listening.
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 01: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

• Elon Musk desire to address the issue head-on, and communicate
that to employees, showed great leadership.
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 02: EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS

• People who work with him always says that Elon is always working, he
spends a large amount of time at his office
• He also expects nothing less from his employees and chooses to “lead the
charge” instead of “cracking the whip.”
 HABIT 06: SYNERGIZE

• Synergize is the habit of creative cooperation, teamwork, open-

mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems.

• It’s a process through which people bring all their personal experience
and expertise and can produce far better results than they could
individually
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 01: TEAMWORK IN ELONS ORGANIZATION

• Elon Musk understands that teamwork is a necessity for any team or
business to succeed.
• Elon Musk leads by “doing” more than “telling”.
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 02: SYNERGY IN ELON ALL BUSINESSES

• Elon has created synergy within his businesses Solar City, Tesla, The
Boring Company and SpaceX
 HABIT 07: SHARPEN THE SAW

• It means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have you.

• Sharpen the Saw keeps you fresh so you can continue to practice the
other six habits.
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 01: SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DIMENSION

• Elon Musk is the first richest man in the world, having net worth of $212 Bn
• Musk is investing most of his time and wealth to gift a second home planet to
humanity
 Evidences from the life of Elon Musk

EVIDENCE 02: MENTAL DIMENSION

• When Musk was in grade school, he was reading ten hours a day,
devouring everything in his library and the entire Encyclopedia Britannica
and completed a six-month BASIC course in just three days
Thank YOU!