The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Signature) (A Fireside book)

by Stephen R. Covey

"The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People" is a comprehensive program based on developing an awareness of how perceptions and assumptions hinder success---in business as well as presonal relationships. Here's an approach that will help broaden your way of thinking and lead to greater opportunities and effective problem solving.
Be Pro-Active: Take the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.
Begin With an End in Mind: Start with a clear destination to understand where you are now, where you're going and what you value most.
Put First Things First: Manage yourself. Organize and execute around priorities.
Think Win/Win: See life as a cooperative, not a comprehensive arena where success is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others.
Seek First to Understand: Understand then be understood to build the skills of empathetic listening that inspires openness and trust.
Synergize: Apply the principles of cooperative creativity and value differences.
Renewal: Preserving and enhanving your greatest asset, yourself, by renewing the physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional dimensions of your nature. Stephen R. Covey is the most respected motivator in the business world today. Learn to use his "7 Habits Of Highly Effective People" --and see how they can change your life.

• ISBN10: 0671663984
• ISBN13: 9780671663988
• Publish Date: 15 August 1989
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 18 October 2003
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Simon & Schuster
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 340
• Language: English

Reviews

[writehollydavis]

3.5/5 stars. This was a fairly helpful guide for self-improvement, but I found myself not feeling as empowered as I'd wanted to while reading about each habit. I couldn't relate to many of the examples and felt like there was some extra fluff in there that could have been condensed. Still, it teaches some good lessons along the way.

[mbtc]

Some great points to think about. Great insight why it's important to figure out what you stand for and stick to it.

[Hillary]

You remember while you was in collage, your friends that majored in something such as business administration talked about books such as this one and how much it has helped them over the years? While you who majored in a liberal arts degree who thought themselves above such books scoffed as such nonsense. Fast forward 5 years later and it is clear who is making more money and stuff and you start to wonder if there were a timeless piece of wisdom in such books, so you finally get it from the library and see what you may have missed.  This was one of those books.

The idea is there are seven principles of highly effective people. By effective it seems getting people to see things your way or as Covey describes it, an agreement that works for both people.

He outlines each step as a stepping stone to true independence which is really interdependence. By completing each step you supposedly become more and more effective at achieving your goals.

The one thing that surprised me was that Covey states in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is he advocates sticking to a principal centered pardagram. I was under the impression that most “business” books was all about getting ahead but I was mistaken.

Overall I enjoyed this book. It not a literary masterpiece but it does have some good advice.This review was originally posted on Adventures in Never Never Land