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

by Stephen R. Covey

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.

• ISBN10: 0743269519
• ISBN13: 9780743269513
• Publish Date: 9 November 2004 (first published 15 August 1989)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 24 December 2010
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: The Free Press
• Edition: 15th Anniversary ed
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 384
• 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