The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

358 pages

English language

Published Aug. 5, 1990 by Simon and Schuster.

ISBN:
978-0-671-70863-4
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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 personal relationships. Here's an approach that will help broaden your way of thinking and lead to greater opportunities and effective problem solving.

Be Pro-Active: Take the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.

Begin With an End in Mind: Start with a clear destination to understand where you are now, where you're going and what you value most.

Put First Things First: Manage yourself. Organize and execute around priorities.

Think Win/Win: See life as a cooperative, not a comprehensive arena where success is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others.

Seek First to Understand: Understand then be understood to build the skills of empathetic listening that inspires openness and trust. Synergize: Apply the principles of cooperative creativity …

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Review of 'The 7 habits of highly effective people' on 'Goodreads'

Timeless advice in the style that late 80s and 90s books do so well. That’s to say there are many gems among the filler talk and assertive religious maxims. And you’ll get expressions like “won’t amount to a hill of beans”, which is a huge bonus.

Just seeing the 7 habits doesn’t give you much to go on. It's the personal, almost offhand, advice peppered in that you read for. Two examples I liked:

"You’ll find that the cause of almost all relationship difficulties is rooted in conflicting or ambiguous expectations around roles and goals."

And, "Satisfaction is a function of expectation as well as realization."

Some topics covered are leadership, time management, habits, productivity, relationships, etc.

The Habits
Be proactive
Begin with the end in mind
Put first things first
Think win-win
Seek first to understand, then to be understood
Synergize
Sharpen the saw

Review of 'The 7 habits of highly effective people' on 'Goodreads'

Synergy is a terrible buzzword.

I listened to a few chapters and decided this kind of "wisdom" really wasn't wisdom at all, just prepackaged, pre-Deepak Chopra nonsense.

But Stephen Covey is the man for keeping this machine running, even after his death with The 5 Choices, a reboot of this tripe for the digital age with three annoying narrators and a truckload of shite.

$$$$$$. That's what this book is about.

Review of 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change' on 'Storygraph'

I wanted to read this book because it's a classic and I've read good reviews of it. The book brings precious and timeless advice but I didn't like the way they were delivered. I think the writing style is boring and the author tries to "over-explain" concepts that are not that complex. And the examples he brings of his real cases with clients or with his family didn't catch my attention, I thought they were uninteresting at the majority of times.
In short, I think the book lacks objectivity and over complicates the subjects. It wasn't a good read for me at all.


Review of 'The 7 habits of highly effective people' on 'Goodreads'

I was a little hesitant to pick up this book, being as that it is classified under self-help/motivational, but I figured that it wouldn't hurt to have a bit of management philosophy reinforcement under my belt. It's funny to think of high power corporate execs reading this book and taking notes about how to be deeper people. But there is indeed quite a bit of food for thought contained in this book, and it is well worth perusing, even if much of its framing must be taken with a grain of salt. Yes, the author seems to be firmly grounded in the 1950s, even as he communicates deeply spiritual and emotional insights. As an example, he feels the need to refer to dealing with other people's feelings as making deposits into their "Emotional Bank Accounts".

I also had to force myself to gloss over overtly Christian propagandizing sections in the …

Review of 'The 7 habits of highly effective people' on 'Goodreads'

Read this way back in like 1997 or 1996 when my manager at MCI at the time enrolled me in a course related to the book. I really took a few of the principles to heart that have made me very efficient in my work and one of my favorite principals was something related to 'taking care of small quick tasks immediately'

I can't remember if it was a habit or just some insight but I seem to recall it as the 2-minute rule and have applied it to a lot of my life. Basically it means if you have small tasks that you can complete in 2 minutes or less you should attack those first to free up time to focus on more important and larger tasks. This ties in with a lot of studies i've read that say that unless you really immerse yourself in a larger task, …

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  • Success -- Psychological aspects
  • Character

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