The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People FROM OUR EDITORS
Despite having sold many millions of copies, Stephen Covey's groundbreaking book remains as fresh, helpful, and important as when it was first published. Such longevity is a testament to the quality of the insights that Covey offers: Eschewing easy fixes and simple-minded formulas, his writings offers a comprehensive and highly detailed program for invigorating your career as well as other aspects of life. You won't be able to breeze through this book (the writing is sometimes complex and involved), and you won't be able to apply Covey's ideas half-heartedly (the vision outlined requires serious effort to realize), but if you're willing to do the work, you'll reap the enormous benefits that many other readers have discovered and put into action.
ANNOTATION
With a balance of theory and practical examples, this guide to personal and professional life describes seven principles of life management. Targeted toward anyone who is interested in personal change, it guides you through private victory, public victory and renewal.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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, honesty, 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.
SYNOPSIS
Stephen R. Covey's incredibly successful book is a pathway to wisdom and power. It offers a revolutionary program to breaking the patterns of self-defeating behavior that keep us from achieving our goals and reaching our fullest potential, and describes how to replace them with a principle-focused approach to problem-solving.
FROM THE CRITICS
AudioFile
Delivered with one of the most genuine voices in the personal development field, the principles in Covey's 1989 bestseller are placed in a new frame by the author's thoughtful comments before and after the unabridged text. The meat of this thinking is well known: Take the initiative, align behavior with beliefs, form partnerships with people you understand and respect, develop yourself. These lessons are still relevant to finding one's rudder in a world that doesn't tell one how and provides no compass. With corporations obsessing over this week's numbers instead of their human capital, Covey's talent for speaking to our deepest aspirations takes center stage again in a lively audio learning experience. T.W. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine