The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Book Review: Trite, ill-written, bigoted
Summary: 5 Stars
Over-hyped, this book might have made a good page in the old Reader's Digest. I read the first 20 pages and the last chapter. The rehashing of ideas, the overloaded LDS theology, and the sheer number of platitudes rendered my copy fodder for the wastebasket.Book Review: How many books can this guy write about the obvious?
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't believe the reviews for this book. I wasn't presented with anything new or thought-provoking. The only thing I can assume is that those who find this book to be thoughtful must live very sheltered lives!Book Review: Directions for self-change
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading Stephen Covey's "7 Habits" cover-to-cover a few years ago, I picked it up again for a re-read. I can't bring myself to read too many books twice, but this one is worth the effort.As many of the other readers here suggest, the book is not perfect. Certain examples Covey cites and recommendations he issues are so idealistic that they make him seem completely out of touch with everyday life. In addition, his style is so upbeat that it, at times, borders on hokey.
Nonetheless, there's a reason this book have been a business bestseller for a zillon weeks: it presents a sound method for improving your life. This is not a re-write of the "Power of Positive Thinking" - Covey explicitly rejects these types of quick-fix remedies. Instead, it is a plan to restructure your life based on those things that you deem most important. Of course, a plan needs to be executed, and that part can't be done for you, although Covey is glad to assist by selling you a few day planners and a conference or two.
The bottom line is that this book won't change your life. You'll do the changing, and Covey is one of the best sources to explain how.
Book Review: One of the great Life Skills works, a must read!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have just finished another great Life Skills book "The 2,000 percent Solution" by Mitchell Coles and Metz whose 8 Steps does for Corporate Effectiveness what Covey's "7 Steps..." does for Personal Effectiveness. I read Covey's book many years ago and have been fortunate to take the seminar and workshop and still think of and utilize the 7 habits on a daily basis. Both of these books while entertaining and apparently simplistic in their approaches have succeeded in pulling together two complementary approaches that every person from child to elder should not only expose themselves to, but find a way to internalise and thereby help achieve his or her personal and corporate visions and dreams in a more positive and timely manner. The authors of both books have created easy to read reference books that are fundementally important contributions to the bank of knowledge in helping us all attain high achievement and progress at the corporate and personal levels.Book Review: It changed my life, think i'll die happy (3).
Summary: 5 Stars
It's fun to read, it's easy to understand, it will change anybodys life, for the better, obviously. I never had a Bible, now i do. A must for the world to get better.