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Summary: VERY GOOD
Review: Awesome book! It was great to really see what the 7 habits have done for people. It gave me a greater understanding of how the 7 habits work and caused me to want to use them more. After reading this book, I was convinced of how useful the 7 habits are. Excellent book! However, I realized that without having, at least a small foundation of the 7 habits first, I probably would not have even gotten past the first story. Another highlight was Stephen R. Covey's question and answer section in the back. It helped to fill in a few emply spaces in the whole 7 habits phenomenon for me.
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Summary: Typical American "warm n Fuzzy"!!
Review: Covey has yet to realise that his paradigms and visions are merely the application of veneers,with the true person beneath exposed once reality bites! It's like reading the script from Dale Carnegie's life story,strung out into seven dilapidated and antiquetous beliefs. Do yourself a favour,pocket your hard earned cash and get stuck into life..instead of analysing it!!
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Summary: Snake Oil
Review: Covey says all the right things about what we should do and how we should behave - I agree. But what he doesn't do is provide adequate motivation for changes in our behavior - the only motivation is getting others to do what we want: manipulation. True motivation comes from something larger than us - faith in a God who is bigger than our own petty self-serving lives. Covey sells good snake oil, but your money would be better spent on a copy of the Bible.
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Summary: 70 times 7 habits
Review: Despite desperately trying to enjoy this book, and to feel inspired by the real-life stories presented, I was quickly tired of it. I've been and continue to be inspired by the original "7 Habits," but there was little new information presented here.
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Summary: SOLID, BETTER THAN NEIL SNYDER'S BOOKS
Review: Generally, this book does not read as well as Covey's earlier works. He should have looked to improvise upon his earlier works, rather than rehash earlier works. Nonetheless, he remains far and away better than Neil Snyder, who cannot write very well, nor express any thoughts of his own. GO WITH COVEY.
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Summary: Give me a break
Review: Here we have an author who is trying to capitilize on past success without understanding that he owes his audience new ideas. What is amazing to me is that Covey can think that readers are a bunch of suckers who will plop down the money to buy a book with no fresh material. The 8th habit has to be write a book that has already been written and try to pawn it off as a fresh new title. I guess old habits are hard to break.
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Summary: For those into SELF-IMPROVEMENT this is NOT the book.
Review: I am a fervent supporter of Stephen Covey. I love the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and First Things First but I must say Living the 7 Habits is a dissapointment. At first glance, it looks very impressive particularly the idea that it has many stories and the design of the book was attractive. However, having read the book, I find it dissapointing because the stories are not inspiring nor does it touches ones heart. Infact, the short stories in the other 2 books mentioned above are far better than those compiled here. I read the book with the hope that the stories will inspire me and can be useful for me to reach other people (people relate better to stories than straight facts) but I could hardly find any good ones. The stories does not result in paradigm shifts as in the earlier books.
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Summary: The last interview only matters...
Review: I am Covey student. But I am rather disappointed with this book as it was (a) loads of stories loads of repetition (b) loads of emotions short of practicality (c) loads of testaments lack of focus on the reader. I found only tiny section that applies. I like the last interview which I would give it a 4**** !
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Summary: Disappointing, even for Seven Habits Fan
Review: I checked this one out of the library, and was glad I hadn't plunked down my own $$$ for it. I thought the original Seven Habits book was quite interesting and also thought First Things First was worthwhile, but this one just doesn't add anything new.Perhaps if you see yourself in one of the short essays this book may provide some inspiration, but on balance I found few of the stories that I could relate too, and even fewer that provided any real insight into how to apply the Seven Habits. Some of the stories were downright odd - one could be dubbed "I found a win-win by working by my mother's death bed!". The short-story format - including annotations as to which of the seven habits was being applied in the situation (oy vey) - just doesn't allow much opportunity for true insight. Your time would be better spent reviewing the original material and attempting to develop a "real world" way on your own to apply to your life. These stories just don't add anything beyond the anecdotes provided in previous volumes, and the cynic in me agrees with the previous critics who said that it was a device to rehash old material.
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Summary: Great supplement to 7 Habits
Review: I have been a fan and student of StephenCovey for many years. I read and re-read7 Habits, which I believe is one of the best, if not the best personal development books on the racks right now. For those who have written negatively about this book and refer to it as a repeat of Covey's earlier work, keep in mind, that the title is a dead give away to the message---You must "LIVE" the 7 Habits and put them into practice--the stories are so inspiring and prove that the 7 Habits have changed many peoples lives. Two other books that I recommend are Superself and Think and Grow Rich. Also Financial Self Defense, which in my opinion is to personal finance what 7 Habits is to personal growth.
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