'7 Habits' author Stephen Covey dead at 79

was provided where I worked.

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

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.

.... 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.

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

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

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.

Never dreamed it would end in death.


Cher

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Another dead corporatist, who cares?