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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780671315283
Edition: Abridged
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, CD
ISBN: 0671315285
Label: Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: January 01, 2000
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio
Features:- ISBN13: 9780671315283
- Condition: New
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Anyone who thinks the audiocassette adaptation of Stephen Covey's bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is a shortcut to reading the book has another thing coming. As a preview, the cassette is worth every one of its 90 minutes; as a substitute for the original, it will only leave you wishing for the rest. There's a reason 7 Habits has sold more than 5 million copies and been translated into 32 languages. Serious work has obviously gone into it, and serious change can likely come out of it--but only with constant discipline and steadfast commitment. As the densely packed tape makes immediately clear, this is no quick fix for what's ailing us in our personal and professional lives.
The tape opens to the silky-smooth, overtrained voice of the female narrator, who's responsible for tying together audio clips from actual Covey seminars. Leaving aside the occasional attempts at promoting Covey and his institute, her script does a first-rate job of making sense of Covey's own intense, analogy-rich style of explaining his habits. There's nothing simple about his approach to becoming an effective person. The first three habits alone--which have to do with personal responsibility, leadership, and self-management--could take years to master. Yet the last four are unattainable, the narrator insists, if you can't acquire the personal security--the "inner core," says Covey--that presumably comes from a mastery of the foundation.
Throughout our lessons, Covey's presence is both learned and thoroughly appealing. He drops references to the likes of Socrates, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Frost with the aplomb of an English professor. And his knack for mixing everyday stories with abstract concepts manages to clarify difficult issues while respecting our intelligence. You could argue that the cassette is nothing more than a clever marketing tool for selling another few million copies of the book. But, even at that, it's worth the investment in time and concentration: in the end, we're moved to learn more about integrating all seven habits in our struggle to become better and, yes, more effective people. (Running time: 1.5 hours, one cassette) --Ann Senechal
Product Description:
In The 7 Habits 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.
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A very good read! You can read the whole way thru once but it's a book that you continually need to read and re-read, time and time again to learn and apply the concepts. It's not a quick-fix self-help book. In the end, it will all be worthwhile. After all, it's your life. Ultimately, it's your choice to live it to the fullest and maximum capacity.
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One of the main points of Dr. Covey's work is that principles are unchanging whereas "techniques" come and go. I've been acquainted with Covey's philosophy for almost 40 years -- which predates this book by about 18. I was fortunate to have Dr. Covey as my Professor of Organizational Behavior when I studied for my MBA back then. I had come out of an undergraduate engineering program and this study was rather foreign to me at the time. The "principles" he taught and nurtured in us then are all ... Read More
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I've spent a good amount of time looking at self-help books and I generally distinguish between those books actually written by psychologists or at least grounded in a theory of psychology, and all the rest. Stephen Covey is not a psychologist and yet his book is written in a very pseudo-scientific style. He doesn't have even one cite in his book, one reference to a study or trial. Virtually every example in this book is anecdotal. And yet the suggestions he makes, in my opinion, are far beyond ... Read More
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It is one of the best books by far on self-development. I bought more copies for my siblings and recommended it to friends and several others.
You will find yourself inside this book. You will come to understand why you are the way you are or why you act/react the way you do. On this book, I have have summarized lines and paragraphs to one word - my name.
Read this book and come to know yourself better.
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I seriously hate this book!! I had to get it for a class I was taking, and ending up and had to do a project on it and it was the worst book I've ever read. It was just a very dry and boring read and I would never read anymore of it then I already have because it was serioulsy that bad!
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