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Summary: Principles for a successful life
Review: There is a gap or space between stimulus and response and the key to both our growth and happiness is how we use the space. Many of us myself included have gone through life without realizing how our actions or words may be perceived by others. We are witness to a fact that many of us work hard but it is a few who proceed to the top. There is a very fine line difference between the two categories; and by sheer awareness one can overcome the slack. Stephan has taken a jab at this by outlining seven essential to a happy successful life.1. Proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Prioritize
4. Think win/win
5. seek first to understand then be understood
6. Synergize
7. Health and fitness I could ramble on each point summarizing partially the jist but the wisdom and broader context would be lost. What I can say is that it will take a short span to read this book, but the benefit if followed closely will be for a lifetime.
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Summary: IT SHOULD BE 8 HIGHLY EFFECTIVE HABITS RATHER THAN 7
Review: They forgot the 8th habit of highly effective people. And that habit is reading and re-reading this book over and over again. I also recommend the book, The Little Guide To Happiness.
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Summary: A bloated, overwritten book
Review: After reading the introduction and first chapter of this book, I closed it and took it back to the library. I never got comfortable with the author's writing style. The book is much longer than it needs to be. The author spends a lot of time reaching main ideas and mostly lectures rather than teaches and explains. This would have been a good long-form essay but it doesn't work as a book. Additionally, the author makes the content more complicated than it needs to be. He turned the compelling into the obtuse. It is unfortunate that he did not employ a ghostwriter.
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Summary: This is pretty good but not really life changing.. for me.
Review: I use audio books when I don't know if I'll want to spend the time reading the book. If I like the audio I buy the print. If not... then nothing. I won't buy the print, but I can't say I didn't like it either. Stephen Covey is good in that I think he hits the core of how to change your life. However I feel that those who have the discipline to go through with what's necessary probably don't need the book. Ha ha. But there IS a lot that IS memorable that I do take with me on a regular basis. Maybe I should listen repeatedly... The book is concept based and has little hype (not motivational which I think is good). Overall worth the while since it's audio and therefore won't eat a lot of time. Who knows, may work well for you.
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Summary: You get out what you put in
Review: We are our own worst enemy sometimes with self defeating behaviors. Dr. Covey does a great job in explaining how to turn your life around, but only if you truly want to work at it. The secret to a more fulfilling life is simply to change our habits. I also recommend Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life to readers who want to change their lives.
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Summary: Excellent Book on Maximizing Effectiveness
Review: 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People', by Dr. Stephen Covey, is a well-regarded and best-selling business book, and for good reason. This book not only offers leadership and effectiveness insight, but it also includes excellent information on time management theories (i.e., personal management) and on character-based interpersonal skills. These are drawn from many highly regarded sources, indicating that Covey did a great deal of research. Much of Covey's effectiveness principles were first 'discovered' by Peter Drucker, the guru of modern management principles. In 'The Effective Executive', written back in 1968 (and definitely worth reading), Drucker published the following five rules of effectiveness for executives (for Drucker, an executive is any knowledge worker): 1) Executives must carefully choose how to spend, and not to spend, their time.
2) Executives must consciously choose what they want to contribute to the organization and ask their subordinates to make such a choice also.
3) Executives must choose people to perform tasks based on their individual strengths and the fit between strengths and tasks--people should not be chosen for whether or not they lack weaknesses.
4) Executives must deliberately choose long-term business priorities.
5) Executives must choose from among all of the alternative opinions offered within their organization. Covey also incorporates Dale Carnegie's ideas on winning friends and influencing people, but he adds to this what he calls the 'character ethic', infusing his Christian faith into his principles. (One assumes that Mr. Carnegie took character as a given back in the 1930s when he wrote 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'.) The results are seven very powerful habits that will help anyone reach their personal and professional goals. So, for anyone seeking improved effectiveness, this book, 'The Effective Executive', and 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' are must-reads.
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Summary: "We are spiritual beings having a human experience"
Review: The essense of Dr. Covey's book could be summarized in Teilard De Chardin's words: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." The Seven Habits are showing us the importance of having principles-centered life as opposed to one governed by occasional moods and prejudices. Once we realize who we are and where we want to be, we could change our environment - we could shape it according to our aspirations, and choose the people and events we want to associate ourselves with. If we let society push us in one direction or another we are never going to develop our full potential as unique beings who have special roles to play.
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Summary: Success is all about habits
Review: Virtually every aspect of your life is determined by your habits and this book clearly shows you how to acquire the habits that have made so many people successful. If you want to change your life, change your habits. I would also recommend a new book that just came out called "The Power of Positive Habits."
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Summary: Thank you Dr. Covey
Review: Six years ago this book helped me to understand proactivity, goal setting and personal management as the foundation of my independence. Two months ago, I was browsing the online reviews and came across a book called Optimal Thinking-How To Be Your Best Self which had been endorsed by Dr. Covey as "A superb treatment of the idea of Personal Best." Optimal Thinking is the best book I have read since The Seven Habits, because it gave me the "HOW" to be my best in every circumstance. Thank you Dr. Covey!
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Summary: Success can be learned!
Review: Success is a habit and like any habit it can be learned. In this outstanding book, Dr. Covey reveals all of the keys to achieving anything you want in life.
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