The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

In the Seven Habots of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, 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.

• Part One: Paradigms and Principles
• Inside-Out
• The Seven Habits — An Overview
• Part Two: Private Victory
• Habit 1: Be Proactive
  Principles of Personal Vision
• Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
  Principles of Personal Leadership
• Habit 3: Put First Things First
  Principles of Personal Management
• Part Three: Public Victory
• Paradigms of Interdependence
• Habit 4: Think Win/Win
  Principles of Interpersonal Leadership
• Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
  Principles of Emphatic Communication
• Habit 6: Synergize
  Principles of Creative Cooperation
• Part Four: Renewal
• Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
  Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal
• Inside-Out Again
• Appendix A: Possible Perceptions Flowing out of Various Centers
• Appendix B: A Quadrant II Day at the Office
• Problem/Opportunity Index

Aaaaarrrggghhh!! I fell for the advertising and bought this crap.

Incoherent, Mormon influenced, "feel-bad and then feel-good about yourself" mumbo-jumbo. On the other hand, I am impressed that Covey managed to build an entire empire on this book. People are more insecure and gullible than even I realise…

Please observe that you must believe in right and left brain thinking (which is mostly discredited nowadays, except as a paradigm) and believe that Covey knows more about Psychotherapy than any real Psychotherapist and disregard his references to modern management thinkers in his own support while he is at the same time debunking all management thinking the last 50 years.

Do I have to say more? This is trash at its worst!