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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Publisher: Copyright © 1989 by Stephen R. Covey
Published by Free Press / Simon & Schuster, Inc., N.Y.
Used by permission.
This Edition: 2004
First Edition: 1989
ISBN: 9780743269513
No. pages: 384

Category: Career & Self-Development
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In this summary you will learn

  • Seven approaches that effective people take to attain fulfillment
  • How to build your character and shape your life more deliberately

Why you should read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

This book was a publishing phenomenon in the early 1990s, and it deserved to be. Stephen R. Covey managed to repackage an ethical and moral tradition thousands of years in development and make it meaningful to a late twentieth century, secular audience. Most of what you find in this book you will find in Aristotle, Cicero, Benedict, Tillotson and their heirs. Covey adds a few references to psychology, a twentieth century science, and many to Viktor Frankl, a sage of the Holocaust. Covey wraps the mix in a distinctively American can-do program of easy-looking steps calling, mostly, for self-discipline. The result is a quite worthwhile, useful manual for self-improvement. getAbstract.com believes most readers can learn something useful from this book, though some will find the style too familiar and easy-going, and the prescriptions easier to agree with than to act upon, much less adopt as habits.

About the Author

Stephen R. Covey is vice-chairman of Franklin Covey Co., and teaches Principle-Centered Living and Principle-Centered Leadership. Covey is also the founder and former CEO of the Covey Leadership Center. He is the author of several books. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been a bestseller for many years.

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