'7 Habits' author Stephen Covey dead at 79

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Source: CNN

Author Stephen Covey, whose "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" sold more than 20 million copies, died Monday at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said. He was 79.

Covey's family issued a statement, reported by CNN affiliate KSL, saying he died from residual effects of an April bicycle accident.

"In his final hours, he was surrounded by his loving wife and each one (of) his children and their spouses, just as he always wanted," the statement said, according to KSL.

Covey was "one of the world's foremost leadership authorities, organizational experts and thought leaders," according to a biography posted on the website of his 2011 book, "The 3rd Alternative."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/16/us/obit-stephen-covey/index.html

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I read that book for a class in freshman year of college. Great life lessons for all.

[RKP5637]

1. Yep, I read it too, it was very interesting! I also took one of the Covey seminars that

was provided where I worked.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Habit #8: death. NT.

[RKP5637]

3. One habit that can never be broken, although, I think Cheney is working on it ... n/t

[CBGLuthier]

4. a week of my working life was wasted on that.

Our mantra was highly effective people don't have half day long meetings to discuss how the fuck to be effective.

[upaloopa]

5. I personally can't see how being win win, seeing the end first, taking a look at what is important

you in your life can be a waste of time.

For me he made a significant positive impact on my life. Especially his ideas of time management. I see so many people who think that putting out fires and busting your ass is the only sign that you are effective and he taught us that what most working people call effective is really wasting time.

[sendero]

15. I only recently..

.... read his 7 habits ideas and frankly a lot of them are ones that many of us have intuitively but never in conscious thought.

While I would agree that actually using these ideas to improve your life is not easy, it would be folly to dismiss them because there is a lot of real substance in them IMHO.

[HERVEPA]

7. Perfectly stated CBGLuther

The stuff in these seminars is always rehash from other such seminars, and common sense that an intelligent person should know.

[LanternWaste]

8. Highly effective people have mantras????

Highly effective people have mantras???? Sorry-- that just sounds so deliciously pretentious-- almost as pretentious as half day long meetings....

[CBGLuthier]

11. tele-meetings no less

Ooohh lala.

There were only two of us here and everyone else was in Michigan so by mantra I mean the same thing i said before every meeting began. The Michigan management that had inherited the 2 of us left out of the company of 200 they had bought 3 years earlier had no understanding of what we did our how we did it. We were programmers who supported our own high end product that had nothing to do with the rest of the business.

We were never going to integrate with the rest the only reason we were still around was because we provided valuable tools to customers of the big mighty company and if they got rid of us they would have pissed off 20 of the largest newspapers in the country.

So this tool of a manager makes us all sit in on the phone while the 15 of them go over it. Foo foo worthless drivel.

SHIT like this book is one of the primary reasons america has lost its edge.

I will slit my motherfucking wrists before I ever work in a corporate environment again.

[NJCher]

6. remember hearing about the accident

Never dreamed it would end in death.


Cher

[elfin]

9. he was a VIM - very important Mormon

Wrote other books for the church. This one took off probably because it didn't mention LDS. However, a peek at the habits of very successful people that provides a peek into why this group is so productive without any crazy underwear or tablets getting in the way of the perceptions by others.

[CBGLuthier]

12. the manager who made us read it was a mormon too. God what a fucking scam.

[Tom Ripley]

14. My first thought was "that's one less vote for Willard"

[FedUpWithIt All]

10. I appreciated his books.

We've been working through these habits with our teen girls. They may be obvious to some but it has really helped our kids streamline the process of reaching these same conclusions on their own. Having destinations, working cooperatively, making an effort to relate to another before you share your own perspective...all good stuff.

RIP Mr Covey.

[TuxedoKat]

17. His book for teens

The Six Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make is really good too. My teenager liked it and found it helpful. I heard him talking about it once on a radio program and was really impressed.

[Tom Ripley]

13. Apparently not dying isn't one of them

[Liberal Veteran]

16. Perhaps he can retroactively not die?

[Ishoutandscream2]

18. I'm sorry for his family, friends, and fans.

But his work - put it in the "Who Moved My Cheese" genre. My school district administrators couldn't stop quoting his quick fix solutions. It was as if he were a god. Another one of those authors that management types seem to adore.

[Odin2005]

19. He was a standard "Self-Help" grifter.

I feel sorry for his family, but him personally? Meh.

[jxnmsdemguy65]

20. I feel the same way..

Another dead corporatist, who cares?