How to Succeed With People
by Stephen R. Covey
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A collection of short, persuasive essays on how to develop happy and meaningful relationships, this book offers specific and practical strategies for improving your interactions with others. The author shows how to prepare yourself personally by developing strength, patience, self-understanding, and spirituality. He also shares advice on how to build harmony, discipline, and communication in your home..
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Here is how the book starts: "If you were guaranteed that by using one hour a day in a particular way you would both enjoy and be more productive in the other twenty-three hours, would you do it? ..."
- first, physical exercise
- second, planning
- third, medication, scripture study, and prayer
I read this book and found it meaningful long before Seven Habits came out. I found 'How to Succeed with People" much more meaningful, and easier to understand than his later book.
Section 1 concerns Self
Section 2 Relationships
Section 3 Family
Section 4 Leadership
Section 5 General Principles
All 40 chapters in 141 easily read pages.
Having written that, and seeing the chapter titles makes me want to read it again.
- first, physical exercise
- second, planning
- third, medication, scripture study, and prayer
I read this book and found it meaningful long before Seven Habits came out. I found 'How to Succeed with People" much more meaningful, and easier to understand than his later book.
Section 1 concerns Self
Section 2 Relationships
Section 3 Family
Section 4 Leadership
Section 5 General Principles
All 40 chapters in 141 easily read pages.
Having written that, and seeing the chapter titles makes me want to read it again.
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Stephen R. Covey was born on October 24, 1932, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received a degree in business administration from the University of Utah, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a D.R.E. from Brigham Young University. He was a teacher and administrator at Brigham Young University. In 1983, he founded the Covey Leadership Center, a show more training and consulting concern. He wrote numerous books on leadership, personal and organizational effectiveness, and family and interpersonal relationships. His best known book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic, first published in 1989. His other books include Principle Centered Leadership; First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, and to Leave a Legacy; Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People; Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families; The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness; and The 3rd Alternative. He received the Thomas More College Medallion and the Utah Symphony Fiftieth Anniversary Award in 1990, and the McFeely Award of the International Management Council for contributions and service in 1991. He died from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident on July 16, 2012 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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