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Summary: This Book is helpful to people @ ALL levels of Effectiveness
Review: I am Surprised at some reviews as this book is full of wisdom and was obviously written by a great man. Whether you are having serious trouble with life and are truly ineffective or whether you seek more effectiveness in your successful life; this book will benefit you.The Seven Habits are easy to understand and are applicable in a host of life situations. The book DOES, however, require a certain (normal) degree of imagination and intellect, as it does go into deep issues that are difficult to fathom by people who have seriously underdeveloped conscience, imagination and/or self-awareness; the principles are also difficult to apply by those who lack Will. I liked the book, it took more than the average time to read, but it was worth it. I strongly recommend it. I also recommend (for different paradigms) Life Strategies by Phil McGraw, The Prince by Niccollo Machiavelli and Lincoln on Leadership by Donald Philips. You can find reviews on all these books in my members page.
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Summary: Easier to learn when you listen sometimes!
Review: A cassette of an all time favorite. Do I know people who have read the book - Yes! They are very successful and have a ton of friends. My parents also highly recommend the book. I think the audio version is easier to fit into our busy lives these days.
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Summary: Profound!
Review: 7 Habits is brilliant! It offers principled solutions to problems in all avenues of life. I loved this book! Anyone who takes the time to seriously study and ponder what he teaches will be deeply changed and will turn to 7 Habits over and over again for solutions to problems through out life.
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Summary: Handbook for all Parents
Review: Excellent! A must for every family... to be re-read as a guide; it refreshes you and gives you more insights each time you read it
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Summary: Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!
Review: Stephen Covey has gone way over board. This book is pretentious, complicated and exclusionary. Just say it! Four quadrants, seven habits. . .blah, blah, blah. He makes life management way too complicated and his ideas are too abstract and do not "connect" with each other. If you want an "technical" book on the "concept" of life management, this is your book. If you want a practical "life" management book that's easy to understand and apply, try "The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management" by Hyrum Smith.
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Summary: patronizing and disturbing
Review: When Covey gives example situations of codependency, which he does alarmingly often, it is always from the _first person_. Don't listen to everything he says because he berates both himself and the reader throughout the book.
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Summary: Good but wordy - A copy of Dennis Waitley's earlier book
Review: I found this book to be a good book filled with sound, basic principles, but it was a bit wordy. A better book written three years earlier though is Dennis Waitley's "Seeds of Greatness." As far as I can tell, Covey read Dennis' book, added a lot more filler, and somehow got credit (and money) for Dennis' work. Check out Waitley's book, you will like it a lot.
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Summary: Very Important Book...
Review: Great lessons! This book was recommended to me as a teaching tool for personal development, and I have since used it to teach about five hundred entrepreneurs in California. The inspirational messages contained in these worthwhile pages bring lessons that will benefit readers for a lifetime. A person should walk away from this book, and return to it many times, having shifted paradigms, knowing that no time was SPENT reading this book, but their valuable time was INVESTED. Yet another wonderful book in which one can invest and produce lifetime returns is "Danger Close" by Mike Yon. "Danger Close" is the true story of a man who applies these principles at every hard turn in life, and eventually lives to tell his story. "Danger Close" actually received the prestigious William A. Gurley award for creative nonfiction. Mike Yon's book is a reference for many people who "sharpen their saws" on a daily basis. It was great to see the real-life application of the "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" in "Danger Close."
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Summary: From 7 Habits to A Way of Life.
Review: I first read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in 1991, and I got physically sick after reading it. It brought out the fact that my life was seriously out of balance. And 'balance' is one of the main points of Dr. Covey's book. Well, time passed and my life changed. So much so, that now, 9 years later, I not only live the 7 Habits (well, most of the time), I sometimes teach them. The point is, that Dr. Covey's book has changed lives, mine among them. So, if you're at a place where you're ready for a change; where you would like to be more at peace with yourself and also more in harmony with your world...GET THIS BOOK!
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Summary: What a load of rubbish
Review: I was doing pretty well with this book until I came to the part where he was demonstrating effective listening skills with a conversation he supposedly had with his son about staying in school. The conversation was ridiculous to anyone who has teenage children. With just a few choice sentences he convinced his son that staying in school is the right and proper thing to do and the beauty part was the kid thinks he convinced himself! Rubbish! This was a dialogue made up by the author to make a point although he says it really happened. If it did then I'm Santa Claus. I stopped reading at that point.
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