
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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New York Times best seller - over 40 million copies sold
The number one Most Influential Business Book of the 20th century
One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated listeners for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents - millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the 7 Habits with modern additions from Sean Covey.
The 7 Habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work! With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 Habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders.
They include:
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity - principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
- Listening Length13 hours and 4 minutes
- Audible release dateDecember 28, 2003
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB0006IU4C0
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook

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Product details
Listening Length | 13 hours and 4 minutes |
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Author | Stephen R. Covey |
Narrator | Stephen R. Covey |
Audible.com Release Date | December 28, 2003 |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B0006IU4C0 |
Best Sellers Rank | #51 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1 in Business Management (Audible Books & Originals) #1 in Business Management (Books) #1 in Business Motivation & Self-Improvement (Audible Books & Originals) |
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1) Be Proactive.
2) Begin with the End in Mind.
3) Put First things First.
Once they have mastered this they can then accelerate the results they achieve by mastering 3 more skills that enable them to enable others.
4) Think win-win.
5) Seek first to understand.
6) Synergize.
Encompassing these 6 habits is the seventh habit which is
7) Sharpen the saw.
Though the some of the ideas are a little trite or naive together they form a good toolset.
After reading it, I found myself energized by the insight of the book - not on the topic of "success", but on real personal growth.
Much of the value of the book is the perspective change that it offers; even a single reading will have you seeing things in a different light. For those that care to, there are also concrete exercises for putting this new perspective into everyday practice.
I also recommend "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families" by the same author.
Later, when assigned to command the USS Santa Fe, I applied his 7 Habits approach at the organizational level. I gave every officer and chief who reported a copy of his book. We would have seminars discussing the various habits and the application of those habits made Santa Fe a more effective submarine.
It turned out that Stephen was doing some work for the navy and learned about what we were doing on Santa Fe. He expressed an interest in riding the ship and the navy set it up. We were scheduled to conduct a one-day transit from the port of Lahaina on the neighboring island of Maui back to Pearl Harbor. This would be a perfect time for him to ride. It was also when we had set up a family member cruise and were expecting about 80 family members to ride as well.
I was apprehensive about having both events at the same time. I thought the presence of the family members would present a distorted picture of how Santa Fe operated. Further, I wasn't sure how I'd appropriately apportion my time between running Santa Fe, Stephen, and the family members.
It worked out perfectly! Stephen was working on a book for families and held a special talk just for the family members. His message was that they played a critically important role in the success of the ship and placed high value on family. It was a win-win.
Stephen spent the entire day onboard, talking with crew members, looking through the periscope and driving the ship. He was tremendously interested in the people, and how they worked together. Everyone he talked to felt better about themselves afterward, especially me.
He remained interested in how Santa Fe did and was happy to hear of the subsequent successes the ship had, including the selection of 9 of the officers for submarine command. I was honored that he included USS Santa Fe in his book, The Eight Habit, and agreed to write the foreword to Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level
I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to change their direction in life, to get to where they want to be, and become the person they've dreamt of.
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This book, however; even if I needed to 'endure' an unconvincing start, was revolutionary in helping me rewrite my life, help find purpose and deal with my mental health issues also.
I would summerise this book as: ''applied, logical wisdom'.

To be frank, I was not blown away by this book. Yes, there are tidbits of wisdom, but they are scattered sparingly in a seamless array of personal anecdotes, mixed with lengthy phrases in no way aiding what was originally a bald point.
I recovered from the book two very important points which could bring value to most intellectuals: a potential new time-management schedule built on a weekly framework which I will definitely try! The second stresses the essence of self-improvement through continuous reading to live life in crescendo as Mr. Covey so magnificently put it.
I did find the 7 habits to be applicable and relatable. I saw my own values and principles in most of them. Maybe I just did not enjoy the dry writing style and the over-usage of anecdotes. I was maybe hoping for more deep-diving in philosophical which ironically begins to appear at the end of the book in the Final Interview with the author. Overall, I give it 3 stars.


If you're into self-improvement I couldn't recommend this highly enough.
Four generations of time management:
1st generation - notes and checklists
2nd generation - calendars and appointment books
3rd generation - important idea of prioritisation, of clarifying values, and of comparing the relative worth of activities based on their relationship to those values
4th generation - recognises that "time management" is really a misnomer-the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves
5th generation - tbc


Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2020
If you're into self-improvement I couldn't recommend this highly enough.
Four generations of time management:
1st generation - notes and checklists
2nd generation - calendars and appointment books
3rd generation - important idea of prioritisation, of clarifying values, and of comparing the relative worth of activities based on their relationship to those values
4th generation - recognises that "time management" is really a misnomer-the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves
5th generation - tbc

