The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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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.

About the Author

Dr. Covey is the author of several acclaimed books, including The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which has been at the top of the bestseller lists for over seven years and tied as the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century in a survey of Chief Executive Magazine's readers.

More than ten million copies have been sold in twenty-eight languages and seventy countries. His books Principle-Centered Leadership and First Things First are two of the bestselling business books of the decade.

Dr. Covey and other Franklin Covey authors, speakers, and spokespersons, all authorities on leadership and effectiveness, are consistently sought by radio and television stations, magazines, and newspapers throughout the world.

Among recent acknowledgments, Dr. Covey has received the Thomas More College Medallion for continuing service to humanity, the Toastmasters' International Top Speaker Award, Inc. magazine's National Entrepreneur of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and several honorary doctorates.

He has also been recognized as one of Time magazine's twenty-five most influential Americans.

Stephen, his wife, Sandra, and their family live in the Rocky Mountains of Utah.

Editorials

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	Warren Bennis author of On Becoming A Leader This remarkable book will be my gift to everyone I know.Skip LeFauve President, Saturn Corporation/General Motors Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People played... read full editorial
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	John Pepper President, Procter and Gamble I've never known any teacher or mentor on improving personal effectiveness to generate such an overwhelmingly positive reaction....This book captures beautifully Stephen's... read full editorial
	Simon & Schuster
	The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People is a comprehensive program based on developing an awareness of how perceptions and assumptions hinder success---in business as well as presonal relationships. Here's an approach that... read full editorial

Customer Reviews

	Covey's the best!
	(Chicago, IL United States) March 31, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars
	If ever there were a bible for time management - in life and business, this is it. Covey is the master of making a simple subject complicated, but then by uncomplicating it, making it simple again. This book will teach... read full review
	"We are spiritual beings having a human experience"
	(Harrison, NJ United States) July 21, 2003 - 5.0/5 stars
	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... read full review
	Aren't I wonderful and smart?
	(Joliet, Illinois) February 11, 2000 - 1.0/5 stars
	Stephen Covey likes himself more than I could stand. I tossed the book aside after a few chapters and haven't missed it since.

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