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Be effective in LIFE.. "7 Habits" not just for business!

  • Oct 30, 2009
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I first saw the 7 Habits in a Barnes and Noble around 2000, and thought it might be useful for my engineering business. Other than hearing the occasional reference to it and to Stephen Covey I had no idea what it was about. The principles he covers certainly rang true such as for; being more effective, being ethical, and the pitfall of getting bogged down by putting out continual fires, such that you stop developing your actual business.

His 7 Habits are as he says common sense, but not necessarily common practice. Thinking Win/Win and Seeking to Understand certainly resonated with me. I have had too much experience in business where people are so Win/Lose oriented. From ego driven peers in the dating community, to business managers of fortune 100 companies treating their customers like the enemy. Customers I might add who are spending $100 million to $500 million on telecom infrastructure and technical services!

Emotional maturity applies to business, just as it applies to our personal lives.

Where this book really shined for me was actually on a personal level. My girlfriend had left me at a difficult emotional time. She was my first girlfriend, and the overwhelming sense of loss I felt lead me to work though my personal demons. Covey talks about the Emotional Bank Account. Simple and logical as it may be I’d never heard anyone talk about it, and well let’s just say that when I was younger I was extremely good at depleting the emotional bank account of those who cared about me. For this reason alone it helped me a great deal with my ongoing journey of emotional maturity.

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October 30, 2009
This sounds like a really, really wonderful book. Was it written specifically for business people? Nonetheless, the concept of that Emotional Bank Account is intriguing enough for me to pick up this book. Thanks for sharing!

By the way, I thought you might appreciate this review on Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life, another wonderful self-help book.
 
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His 7 Habits are as he says common sense, but not necessarily common practice. Thinking Win/Win and Seeking to Understand resonated with me.
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ISBN-10: 0743269519 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 9780743269513 (pbk.)
Author: Stephen R. Covey, Stephen, R Covey
Genre: Leadership, Management, Motivational, Paperback, Psychology & Counseling, Success, Covey, Stephen R., Self Help, Protestantism, Careers & Business Life, Personal Growth, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Case Studies, Industrial Psychology, Job Hunting & Careers, Entrepreneurship
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: November 9, 2004
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