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Summary: Excellent Message
Review: Great help to me and would be great help to anyone who reads or listens. A must for any manager. Ties in well with the Daytimer product. Only complaint is Dr. Covey's voice on the audio cassette. To me, it is very difficult to listen to.
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Summary: General new age pablum
Review: I'm still waiting for the sequels, second things second and third things third. I cannot believe that this book is so popular. Hitler and Stalin were also highly effective people, so beware.
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Summary: Don't listen to the critics...
Review: This was an excellent book. In fact, it's one of the two best self-help books of all time (the other one being "The Neo-Tech Discovery"). Most of the critics complain that the material is "obvious" or what-not. Well, if it's so obvious, then why aren't more people living their lives in this manner? Sure it's obvious, in fact, it's common sense. Yet, it addresses many vices in our modern, celebrity-worshipping, instant gratification-seeking, sentimentalist society. Is it possible that after reading this book, you could continue to be a loser? Sure it is. Because for all of the greatness of this book, it is just a book, and it can't live your lfie for you. I'd say that if you're unhappy or unfulfilled in life, then read this book and integrate the habits to improve your life. Does that sound simple? It is.
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Summary: Enjoyed it.
Review: Stephen Covey has an excellent way of allowing you to see the obvious. All of us should get in the "habit." If you like this, try "The Lone Ranger's Code of the West" -- principles AND snappy adventures in one book!
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Summary: changing paradigms
Review: this book is a must for all those people who want to pursue their mba. it not only teaches how to live but also changes the way we look at people and things. the best preaching of this book is of the concept of holistic approach. you can mail me so that i can tell you more bout this book.
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Summary: Practical and realistic
Review: Reaching goals requires hard work, not just inspiration. Books and people can inspire but ultimately, it's the hard work that will bring you where you want to go. The book outlines how to do it very well.
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Summary: Overhyped, overmarketed, overrated
Review: Roger Dawson's 13 Secrets of Power Performance, Steven Scott's Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams and Marshall Sylver's Passion Profit & Power are each 10 million times better than this book.
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Summary: If you don't have it, get it
Review: For those who have said that Covey simply used old ideas, I say, "Yes, didn't you read the introduction?" Unlike all the other arrogant self-help and business authors out there, Covey humbly admits AT THE VERY BEGINNING that his work is based upon research of 200 years of work. What Covey has done, and very succesfully, is put all of this learning into a very practical, easy-to-understand, and insightful package. For those who say that it is simply common sense, I would say that everything that is worthwhile is common sense. It just takes someone who has clear thinking to help point out the common sense right in front of our nose.
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Summary: If you're ready for personal change...
Review: First of all, people who have responded negatively to "The 7 Habits" may simply not be ready to incorporate and internalize Covey's principles into their lives yet. They may also have been expecting an easy read, a "quick fix" if you will, and been sadly disappointed. For people who are ready, this book will seem like a beacon of light, giving implementable and easy to follow methods to take control of your life, feel fulfilled personally, be able to give to your loved ones and richen your every relationship. It just makes sense! I found the latter part of the book very powerful in that Covey hits on a key aspect to healthy, happy and effective living: BALANCE. "The 7 Habits" is a guide and reference manual providing you with the tools to take control of your life. It's up to the individual as to where to take that in his/her own life.
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Summary: This book has changed my life
Review: I am somewhat cynical about self-help books but this book really has made a change in my life. In response to previous negative comments: 1. I am extremely sensative to books that get religious and I was not bothered once with this one - I am not religious at all. The only reference to religion may be to wise sayings that apply to becomming successful. 2. The book has been called simplistic - the concepts are simple but profound. If we could only follow the simple ideas this world would be an amazing and happy place. The simple concepts are sometimes the most important. 3. Covey does use old ideas in his book but he presents them in a new way that is easy to understand. I was disappointed when I read books much older than 7-habbits that had the same basic ideas. What they lacked was an understandable way to implement change and a good and enthusiastic idea-weaver like Covey. 4. Comments attacking Covey's personal character have been made but I have not read anything that substantiates them. From the little that I know about him, he is a good and very successful person. Success is not measured by wealth and companies that you own - it is measured by what kind of a person you are. This book has changed me by making me think about the important things in my life. It also made me realize that I was hurting myself by doing things that were against what I believed to be right. This book holds the ideas to help me gain wisdom and success in my life. It is certainly my favorite book.
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