Leadership Book Review - '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' - Stephen Covey

This is an Executive Summary of the Best Leadership Lessons from Steven Covey’s number one best seller “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."

Although I like this book, I also like to pick on this book… I don’t need 371 pages of feel-good stories to learn the 7 habits of highly effective people. I need 7 sentences to tell me what they are. I am smart enough to figure the rest out. The fluff simply slows me down. Feel-good books sell millions of copies to people who want to feel-good. I don’t want you to feel good, I want you to be good.


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[ScottWaa]

I agree. This is one of the very few books I never finished. It was too wordy, drawn out. I read a lot. This book was highly recommended to me, but has been the greatest disappointment to date.

[TheKaush]

Sir, Your voice and the contents you present are great but please avoid any background music as they act like disturbance ....thank you!!

[timothywilliamson]

Have the book. Haven't read it. Not ever going to. Thanks Bro.😄

[jmanj]

4:15 I'm wondering if you have read "Think and grow rich" by Napoleon Hill. It's an excellent book. It's long, for sure, but I found it to be worth the time and effort to read it, and then to reread parts of it from time to time.

If you're not familiar with Mr. Hill, he was, in my opinion at least, the original (or at least the first in the modern, industrialized era) to write about this type of topic. He was personally involved with Carnegie, Ford, Morgan, and the rest of the "Captains of Industry" in the USA.

My biggest takeaway from his book was his emphasis on avoiding any transaction which does not benefit all who are involved with it, similar to what you stated in this video.

I respectfully recommend to anyone who reads this comment that he or she read this book.

Also, another great video, sir!

[Getsomefit]

I love all your content if you ever need any help or service I’d be honored to work for someone like yourself sir God bless

[jmanj]

1:50 ...because only "pussycats" drink Coors Light...lol

[MsundrstdKidd]

I appreciate this. This book...well. The comments and your ending says it all.

[edv]

Man I love your speeches I really got to get over to the bookstore

[econotalk]

Very well conducted summaries 😃✅📚 🖋️ Great perspectives. Thanks for sharing

[opensourceguy]

Your example of the two students isn’t necessarily true and it’s somewhat unctuous. Yes, top universities like to see balanced applicants. But basically you’re saying if you’re a bit of a political animal, a Uriah Heep if you will, you’ll get far in life. The student on the right is likely to struggle mightily at an academically rigorous university. I’ve seen it first hand. Her not-for-profit work doesn’t make her better at Differential Equations or Statistics. Ask yourself this, Colonel: Would the SF take people based on subjective criteria? Small request: Please lose the techno music, it makes it hard to listen to your message with the unnecessary distraction.

[specter]

Love the videos. It's like having the best parts of the army in my life again without the minutiæ of motor pool Mondays and such

[PCWCFA]

I would like to know how you are finding early retirement. How did you find the transition from a full-on military career to self-directing your days? I believe if you have the proactive trait, having a structure that tells you you need to be doing x, y, and z at a certain time sometimes interferes with your internal planning and optimization. For instance, before I start each day, I already have mapped out the most optimal use of my time to get the maximum amount of work done, but invariably, my time is cut into little less-than-optimal pieces by people wanting you to help them think through basic problems that they could have thought through themselves or illogical prioritization for events that are 6 weeks away when a more urgent matter due the next day is somehow a backburner item. By the end of the day, all I can think of is there is no hope for humanity if the first instinct is always to make your actions dependent on false gating events due from someone else.

[greyson]

Ironic. I got this book at Ft. Bragg at the PX near the JFKSWC

[maineoutdoorsman]

Everyone should watch this video repeatedly.

[footballisunited]

A prime life lesson. Cut through the BS

[papaparsnip]

We spent a whole semester on this stuff in school

[mikefurlong]

Great synopsis - but the typo on "Habit" at 1:10 makes me cringe. Do you have the means to bring this up to standard?

[youindeedsuck]

So did the genius start his own Twitch and make 1M a year playing video games?

Cause if not, he ain't no genius
Video games are awesome, but can also be lucrative