The seven habits of highly effective people

Five Dimensions of Win-Win 
 
   Think Win-Win is the habit of interpersonal leadership.  It involves the exercise of each of the 
unique human endowments -- self-awareness, imagination, conscience, and independent will -- in our 
relationships with others.    It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits. 
      It takes great courage as well as consideration to create these mutual benefits, particularly if we're 
interacting with others who are deeply scripted in win-los. 
   That is why this habit involves principles of interpersonal leadership.  Effective interpersonal 
leadership requires the vision, the proactive initiative, and the security, guidance, wisdom, and power 
that come from principle-centered personal leadership. 
   The principle of win-win is fundamental to success in all our interactions, and  it embraces five 
interdependent dimensions of life.  It begins with character and moves toward relationships, out of 
which flow agreements.    It is nurtured in an environment where structure and systems are based on 
win-win.    And it involves process; we cannot achieve win-win ends with win-lose or lose-win means. 
      The following diagram shows how these five dimensions relate to each other. 
      Now let's consider each of the five dimensions in turn.