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Summary: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Review: If you don't already realize everything that is said in this book, you probably can't read anyway. The book is years old. It spouts common sense, mundane platitudes, making it boring to read and highly ineffecitve.
Amazing what some people succed in getting into print.
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Summary: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Review: I have been reading this book for a little time; I think the main idea is talking about how the family and business can be together if you follow the simple principles described by covey.Too much people who won their work, but they lose their family. This book describe the important occupation in the family of life, Steve didn¡¦t depreciate the occupation value, he just put family become the first change a standpoint creation the life. Steve teach 7 habits can make family become the happy, it include ¡§The Habit of Proactively¡¨, ¡§Begin with the End¡¨, ¡§Put First Things First¡¨, ¡§Think Win/Win¡¨, ¡§Seek First to Understand, than to Be Understand¡¨, ¡§Synergize is the Highest Activity in all life¡¨, and ¡§Sharpen the saw.¡¨ He advocates these base principle are very important for family. Steve synthetics his point, if the person can positive by himself, his can control the way of the life, effective manager the life. If the person can polish himself, he can know how to understand the other person, he can try to find the way to solve their problem. If the person can serious request himself from pileup experience, he can expand his space, it also can help him grow up.
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Summary: What did I learn from this books?
Review: This is a good book that I learned a lot from Stephen R. Covey. He teaches me how to have a good relationship with my friends, family, and co-workers. Before I read this book, I didn't know those habits were so important in my life. I mean I never thinking about those points. After I read this book, I started to follow those points and my life really changes. I know I can control my life if I can exercise management in my life.
It is important to reread this book because it will talk to you in different ways at different stages in your life. I recommend the hardback addition, since it is definitely a keeper.
Our life is our responsibly. The definition of responsibility is "to be Reponses-Able". We are all able to respond. I realized how much I used to live the habits. I feel recharged after re-reading the book. This is one worth reading over and over to further reinforce the concepts.
I am so thankful that my teacher (Mr. Wolf) introduced me to this book. It's changed the way I see the world. It's helping me to realize my potential, and the potential of all around me. It's amazing! I can't recommend this book highly enough. Read it!
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Summary: Leadership: The Fruits, The Roots
Review: "The 7 Habits" by Stephen R. Covey is one of the best books on self-improvement and leadership I have ever read. Deals with the practical aspects of the subject. Highly recommended. For understanding the philosophy behind Mr. Covey's ideas, read "West Point: Character, Leadership,...". The best explanation I"ve ever read.
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Summary: scholarly and pedestrian
Review: Habits are, according to psychologists, conditioned response to stimuli. This means that they can be learned through repetition or reinforcement. Unlike Pavlov's dogs, salivating to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, people are highly complex and dynamic and each react differently to the same or different situations. This book's premise, I guess, is we can acquire habits to deal effectively with these uncertainties. It is a variation on the same theme: "manage things, lead people". Covey's concepts are by no means, original. "Be Proactive", "Think of the End" and "Put First Things First" bring to mind Management by Objectives and Psycho-Cybernetics. "Think Win/Win" parallels I'm Ok, You're OK Transactional Analysis.The value of the book is the way the author synthesized the concepts in a simplistic "7 habits". Although Covey's methods sound pedantic -- coated in the typical Harvardian jargons, while at the same time trying to be off-the -shelf and pedestrian, the key is picking and applying the things that work. If it works for you, that's all that matters.
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Summary: In-Depth Exploration
Review: This book asserts that habits are powerful elements in our lives that pull us either toward or away from happiness. Rather than turning effectiveness, balance, growth and interdependence into an unattainable set of ideals, it presents them as a lifestyle, partners to the 7 habits that are genuine expressions of one's self. I also suggest that anyone interested in expanding their awareness and effectiveness in all areas of life read 'Open Your Mind, Open Your Life' by Taro Gold, a simple, direct and powerful collection of wisdom.
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Summary: Want to improve business/personal relationship?
Review: This book will help you in your relationships with people in your personal life and in the business world. It gives specific ideas of how you can improve many parts of your life from the "inside out". It does this by presenting seven skills of self-mastery. It helped me think of new ideas and ways I could change. I found it difficult to read, therefore I had to go over some parts more than once to understand their true meaning. It is not a book that you can read quickly but it was very good. Don't just read it, study it. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to change their personal and business relationships.
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Summary: What have I learned from this book.
Review: Every time I read this book, I feel that I get lots of ideas and strengths from this book to face lots of challenges in my life. In the book, Steven Covey describes how communication is the foundation of success in family and business.
When we put our pattern to people, we will have problems with communication. For example, parents probably won't listen to children because they feel they are right, all they doing is great to children. It's not respectful to anyone, even though they are young. It's not only happen in parenthood. It could happen anywhere. Later it causes lots of problem because people don't have good communication as foundation. The author shows us where is the problem, and how to solve it. After we know what's wrong and know how to deal it. We can accomplish this skill to each role we play in our life and successfully.
This is a great book showed me how to deal with people and myself. I only need to change my attitude or skills from this book, I'll have see things work out and everyone is happy about the results.
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Summary: Timeless truths
Review: I finished reading the book about 6 months ago and it is still helping me in my life. It is not a quick fix book, but you can see the changes in your life as you apply the principles taught therein. It really gives some insights on how to focus on what is really important in your life, as well as reduce the chaos and stress in your life.
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Summary: Good advice buried in jargon and verbosity-disappointing.
Review: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was first published in 1990. I first read it around 1991 and recently reread it as part of a series of corporate training sessions I'm currently enrolled in. I had some pretty strong impressions about the book when I first read it and this recent reread gave me the opportunity to refresh my mind as to the books specifics (I remember the main points in general), look at the work with a few years more experience and maturity behind me, thus providing me an opportunity to rethink my impressions and opinions. On the whole, my assessment of the book hasn't changed much. I was disappointed with the book back then and remain so today. This disappointment has little to do with the validity of the premise of the book or the relevance of the "7 Habits" it outlines. Covey has some good points to make and the book has some useful insights into what one could reasonably call a "balanced life". My problem is that all too often-well, really, almost continually-the book imposes major impediments to getting at, fully understanding and implementing its major premises. The problems include (1) unbelievable verbosity (Covey seems to think there's no reason to use one word when 7 will do), (2) linguistic pomposity (purportedly this is a book for "your family and business lives" but I ask you, how often do terms like paradigm, intra-this or intra-that, globally, leveraged, matrix and so on, and on, and on get used in your family?), (3) excessive jargonistic gymnastics (see {2} previously) and (4) the hard sell for Covey Enterprise accouterments (order our "helpful" calendar, notebook, pamphlets, and so on, and so on and so on....). In the end, all of the major points could have been made much more clearly and concisely in half the space with much better overall understanding and usability than is available here. The bottom line is this is a book written to be used as a "warm and fuzzy" business-training tool. There's nothing wrong with that as long as it's aimed at the right audience. Unfortunately this is a book aimed at-and written for-executives and all too often imposed on the rank and file. In the end, I doubt either group ever gets what is should out of the excellent ideas and premises that underline the whole effort. In the final analysis, both ten years ago and just recently, I couldn't help but wonder if the book really was written so much as to help the reader or simply a clever device to enrich the author. I'd like to think it's not the latter-there's too much substance here and, in an obscure way, Covey comes across as a good sort-but the simple fact you think about those sort of things virtually automatically renders the book a failure of a sort, which is as sad as it is unfortunate.
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