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Summary: Not for the politcally challenged
Review: When it comes to self-help books, I look for results. Personally, I couldn't finish it. I started out gun-ho and created these great elaborate charts to list my activites and "sharpen my saw". I never got past two weeks of making that my habit. I did eventually get into the habit of a simple "To-Do list" and mark items as A, B, or C in respect to Covey's quadrant definitions.If you work in a corporation as a professional non-manager and are NOT naturally politcally poised, keep in mind the "Peter Principle". If your network is not in place, being a procactive enthusiastic ball of fire can "Win-Win" you a permanent vacation in this economy. If you are politcially poised and securely networked, effectively quoting from this book and using the terminology should enhance your career. I will attempt to read-read this book again with an open mind and try to understand what I missed ... besides the whole last half or quarter of the book that I couldn't read any more of. I did get into the habit of being proactive and being of a Win-Win mindset. It became my favorite corpspeak, but beware that there are many who use such jargon only because it's expected ... as jargon ONLY.
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Summary: In-depth look at effectiveness
Review: I decided to read this book in the hope that it would have some interesting practical advice on being more effective. That's what I expected from a best-seller self-help book, at least. I was pleased to find out that it is in a much higher level than that. It has two main distinct parts: the first is about personal effectiveness and management, and the second about social effectiveness. In the first part, instead of giving you some canned daily procedure to follow every day, it discusses the much deeper process of finding what your real goals are, and stepping aside and looking at your life to see if it makes sense as a whole. Instead of giving you a fixed procedure, it considers how one goes about to determine his/her own procedures. At the end of this section it does go at some lenght on some more practical and quite flexible organizational strategies. The second part is a more hands-on take on how social interactions work, and what works and what doesn't when dealing with people. It stresses a non-competitive, no-nagging approach to dealing with people so that the trust raises and true synergistic collaboration emerges. It sounds to me as a very passive way of doing it and seems hard to put into practice. He even gives some examples of possible conversations and they sound a little unrealistic to me, the kind that would make the other person wonder if you have been reading self-help books or something :). However, it does a convincing job in explaining how most of our relationships could be truly collaborative and yet we may often take a competitive approach to them. It also clarifies quite well the kind of subtle defense mechanisms people use when dealing with each other. Overall, a very good book to have you thinking on some important issues.
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Summary: Easy to understand, hard to do
Review: This book has great ideas on how to improve your life. I've read and re-read it many times over the past 10 years or so. It is hard to keep Covey's ideas going on a regular basis, though.
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Summary: Magic Book!
Review: This fairy book has an amazing impact on me.
I think this was the best book that i've read in whole my life.
I found it full of beneficial guidance and influent contents that
its operative instructions would be usefull for my future life. I'll be so grateful if I would be able to have contact with the
honored author of this glory book. Thanks a lot for your attention.
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Summary: When you read it you see yourself
Review: Even if you are a very successful man you will see your bad sides and how to eliminate them. This book can change your life.
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Summary: Miniature edition warning!
Review: Be sure you are not buying the miniature edition, unless that is what you want. I thought I was buying the regular book and was surprised to receive a miniature edition.
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Summary: Don't believe the hype!!!
Review: A boring book. If I would have known that he had an MBA from Harvard I would have reconsidered buying this book. I could have written this book in 20 pages, not to mention in a more entertaining fashion!!! Do not buy this book. I would recommend a book written by Rick Pitino or another coach/successful athlete.
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Summary: A Disappointment
Review: For all the hype this program generates I must say that I am truely disappointed by the quality of this CD. In this CD (with the blue cover) you are constantly interrupted during Covey's interesting seminar, by a woman narrator who talks about what Covey is getting ready to talk about. I felt like I was back in grade school having the book deciphered into "potato head" talk. I will try another version of this book in hopes that it was put together in a better, easier flowing manner.
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Summary: This should get 7 stars
Review: I have the cd rom version of this book and it is truly amazing. What he says isn't all that new. It's just that we forgot. His laws are eqaul to the laws of the universe. For example, win/win. His Idea that we don't have to compete and make our peers our rivals. In fact, successful people have a tendency to make everything win/win rather than win/lose. Someone doesn't have to lose in order for us to win. In fact, if we both help each other we both will win. There is plenty of success to go around. In essence, the golden rule applied to living. This is just one example of his seven laws. Great book. Another self help book I would like to recommend that I absolutely love is called, "The Little Guide To Happiness".
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Summary: Interesting at times, but often pompous and self-satisfied
Review: I am not a big fan of self-help books but I can understand their appeal. Covey is very POSITIVE, his endless encouragement to go out and "quit whining and do something about it" can be infectious (of course this message involves plenty of diagrams and long, tedious passages). If he could keep the book pitched at this level I would be an enthusiast, unfortunately he does not...This book is interesting - partly because so many people swear by it - but I did not find it GREAT and remain slightly puzzled by all those converts.
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