Summary and Analysis of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change: Based on the Book by Steven R. Covey
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One of the most popular and enduring works of personal-growth literature, international bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People offers life-changing insights. More than a book about business management, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People takes readers through a tiered process of change that begins from the inside and moves outward.
Stephen Covey inspires readers to reexamine their core values, discover their personal mission, and interact in more meaningful ways. Covey provides strategies for personal effectiveness that have helped millions of people around the world live more effective, fulfilling lives.
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Contents
Context
Overview
Summary
Quoting Effective People
Direct Quotes and Analysis
Trivia
What’s That Word?
Critical Response
About Stephen R. Covey
For Your Information
Bibliography
Copyright
Context
Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is one of the bestselling self-help books of all time, spending 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and selling more than 25 million copies worldwide. The appeal of the Seven Habits may lie in their simplicity. While researching the history of self-help for his doctorate at Brigham Young University, Covey found that advice literature in the first 150 years of America’s existence focused on building character, and discussed ethical traits like integrity, industry, and courage. Conversely, the self-help books of the past fifty years consisted of what Covey referred to as shallow pandering.
By returning the focus to the Character Ethic,
Covey’s Seven Habits reintroduced traditional values of success into modern management theory.
Covey’s emphasis on the character and self-determination found in early American success literature,
rather than specific management skills, led critics to accuse the author of simply stating the obvious. One reviewer went so far as to accuse him of peddling banal truisms.
Covey is rumored to have responded: What’s common sense just isn’t common practice.
In other words, although the Seven Habits are founded on common-sense principles, they offer readers strategies for implementing these truisms
into their daily lives.
The message clearly spoke to readers. In 1996, Time listed Covey as one of the twenty-five most influential Americans. In addition to many other self-help titles, Covey published two follow-ups, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families in 1997 and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness in 2004. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People remains a perennial top seller in the genres of business writing and self-help, and its message of self-management continues to be put into action by individuals and organizations around the globe.
Overview
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People opens with the words, There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
This quote from David Starr Jordan introduces the main idea of the Seven Habits: Being an effective person means being principle-driven. If you want to adapt your behaviors to achieve personal and professional goals, you must shift your perspective of the world so that it aligns with your own deep-rooted principles.
The Seven Habits provide a step-by-step process to take a person from dependence to independence, and, ultimately, to interdependence. The