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In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity--principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

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384 pages
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November 9, 2004
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5.5 x 0.9 x 8.44 inches
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0743269519
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges. Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more. This isn't a quick-tips-start-tomorrow kind of book. The concepts are sometimes intricate, and you'll want to study this book, not skim it. When you finish, you'll probably have Post-it notes or hand-written annotations in every chapter, and you'll feel like you've taken a powerful seminar by Covey. --Joan Price

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The late Skip LeFauve President, Saturn Corporation/General Motors Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People played a major role in the development of Saturn's operating systems and philosophy. Our commitment to quality and to our customers has its roots in The 7 Habits.

Ken M. Radziwanowski AT&T School of Business Picture someone going through the best experience they've ever had in terms of training -- that's what they say. People credit the 7 Habits with changing their lives, with getting back on track personally and professionally.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Free Press; Revised edition (November 9, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743269519
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743269513
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.44 inches

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Self-Helpy Yet Actually Helpful

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2009

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I require that my students read this in intro to modern philosophy. As simplistic as such self-help lit can be, I require that they read short two-page workbook summaries of each habit for all my classes, or the text itself, as the model helps students apply critical thinking to their own lives.
For instance, for Fairfield's first strategic goal of integrating learning across the core, Covey's habit of synergizing suggests ways to seek commonalities across seemingly disconnected issues, problems and people. Likewise for the second goal of integrating living and learning, the "Be Proactive" habit helps students see what they can control in their lives, and what they can't. My undergrads are often shocked to realize, for example, that they choose to be in class and can control whether they go or not. Likewise, "Seek first to understand" teaches concrete ways to deal with every kind of conflict--whether between warring roommates, battling opinions in class, or competing theories in readings. Time comes, I could also share all my short Pass/Fail writing assignments I give using the habits.
Mind you, Covey is limited as is any text. As Dr. Paul Farmer, the activist at the core of the book Mountains Beyond Mountains, suggested, we in consumer culture need to get beyond personal "effectiveness" to responsible citizenship--something Covey himself hints at, although his ideas can be abused by the most self-interested. I'd grade it an A-.

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Good ideas, shame about the presentation

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2007

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I think this book important, not because of the quality of the content, but because it is so popular - ranking #49 in sales on Amazon as I write this seventeen years after first publication. Read this book to have a shared reference point with the many others who have also done so, then you can jump straight to "let's Habit 4,5,6" without a whole lot of explanatory discussion.

So what are the ideas? The meat to this book are the seven habits:
1. Be Proactive - be responsible for your actions
2. Begin with the End in Mind - spend time visualizing who you want to be, how you want to be remembered. This was probably the best part.
3. Put First Things First - prioritize relentlessly, distinguish between `important' and `urgent'
4. Think Win/Win - think of positive outcomes for others as well as for yourself
5. Seek First to Understand Then to be Understood - listen actively and empathically to others
6. Synergise - look for things you can achieve with others you may not have thought of doing alone
7. Sharpen the Saw - seek a healthy balance in life between exercise, study, service and prayer, and grow yourself continuously

The first three habits are grouped together as leading to `Private Victory' - personal independence, the second three habits are grouped together as `Public Victory' - interdepenece with others. They are also portrayed as building upon each other in sequence. The book is subtitled `Restoring the Character Ethic' and does not claim to offer any quick fix.

So what don't I like? For a book that claims to be the result of substantial research, and which mentions the importance of self-education and reading quality literature, there is a remarkable lack of references, of any bibliography. Biographies of Franklin, Jefferson, Frankl and Sadat are mentioned, and Fromm is quoted, but in 300 pages of text only three books are actually cited. I found the work insular, setting up and breaking down straw man arguments, and in general not especially deep or sophisticated. The introduction first belabors `paradigm shifts' - a fashionable 80's phrase that dates the book - and that our perceptions shape our reality, then the `golden goose' metaphor is beaten to death - surely there must be more ways to illustrate balance between short term results and long term investment. The diagrams are lame. Overall, apart from the discussion of personal mission statements, I was glad to reach the end of the book, rather than excited or inspired to further action, which was a shame because the framework outlined here is basically sound, and a step up from the moral neutrality of NLP.

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Rollis Fontenot III

Hands down one of the best personal development books you will ever read

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2009

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This is a book you will want to read all the way through and then go back and work on each of the 7 habits individually. Dr. Covey is able to share the information in a practical way that can be applied to our personal life as well as family, business or any other relationships. The first 3 habits are personal and are part of the private victory, the next 3 habits deal with relationships and are part of the public victory. The last habit is self-renewal, the sharpening of the saw. There are so many nuggets of information in this book that you will find useful in your life. The concept of P/PC productivity, interdependency, emotional bank accounts, effective delegation and time management among others are covered in detail here. All the concepts and ideas presented in the book are based on sound principles and you will find that many of them find precedence in wisdom from the Bible. This book is a must-read in personal development and is one of my favorite books.

Matthew M. Howell

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2012

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I won't say this book changed my life. I will say, however, that despite the fact that I loathe most self-help pop-psychology crapola, upon finishing it, I immediately bought this book for 3 of my friends. Covey has a gift for distilling the principles of dealing with people. Some of them may seem obvious once stated, but many you would not necessarily have arrived at on your own, or not with the same degree of sharpness, definition and context that he provides. It is well, well, worth a read, possibly even once every year.

Furthermore, unlike many books of this genre, it smacks very little of self-satisfaction or aggrandizement on the part of the author, and seems to genuinely come from a place of empathy and a desire to better the world via helping the people in it.

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Jon Boy

One of the best personal productivity books for business and personal life

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2014

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One of the most famous and best selling business books and rightly so.

As it says in the title the book clearly states the top 7 things that successful people consistently do. It's very well written and therefore easy to read. The 7 habits are clearly explained with nice examples so that you can go away and start doing them.

The power of the book is in its simplicity, just follow the advise and you can make you business and personal life more fulfilling and rewarding - highly recommended.

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Do NOT recommend, appalling quality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2021

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Very poor quality, the front 8 pages all ripped at the bind, front cover was packaged folded in half, discolouring on all pages, very damaged, used and grimey, not as advertised. On my account it nots the order is still 'dispatched' from 2 weeks ago. Do not recommend this seller at all.

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Tara Scott

There are many self-help or improvement guides out there. ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2015

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There are many self-help or improvement guides out there. The simple writing and everyday examples really struck a chord with me.

Paula

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2014

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Fabulous!

gitu

kind of scared

Reviewed in Canada on January 29, 2021

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okay so i’ve been wanting to read this book for the longest time so i got it used cause i don’t care if it’s new. the thing is, when i went to check if the book is nice and everything from the inside, this joker card with a hole in it was on the title page on the inside. that was super weird to me like what even is that?? i asked my friend and he said this was something that happened in bat man and it’s basically joker putting me on his hit list. i’m scared

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