The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People :: The Best eBook

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:15 pm

But here's only four of them. You can't expect to get very far in marketing with a glaring ommission like that!

djm

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:05 pm

I strongly suspect that one habit highly successful people have is that they don't sit around reading self-help books.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:06 pm

I have no desire to be highly effective. What else y' got?

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:17 pm

My question is: Effective at what?

It would be easier, anyway, to write a sensible book about the seven habits of highly infective people:
1. Never wash hands.
2. share needles
stuff like that...

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:31 pm

7 habits seems very excessive. Me, I don't even have one.

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Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:47 pm

Wombat wrote:That does it.

I'm writing a book entitled 'Seven habits of people who think that everything important comes in sevens.'

Oh dear. I hope you haven't sent that off to the publisher yet.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:41 pm

I.D.10-t wrote:I read the 7 chapter titles in the bookstore in 10 seconds. Any one that needs more elaboration than that is wasting their time.

It seems to me that reading only the chapter titles should be one of the seven habits of successful people. But I'd be guessing.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:31 am

How about this book.

The Only Habit Necessary
To effective drunkeness

When does Emm's book come out?

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:50 am

Sooo....with all the critiquing, has anyone here actually read the book in question?
I feel inclined to speak up because I know Steve personally; he has a lot of really great advice for people, and it's not all just aplicable to the workplace.

missy · Post by **missy** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:53 am

actually - I took the "Seven Habits of Effective Leaders" 2 day class about 7 - 8 years ago. There's a LOT of good information, especially about figuring out what is REALLY a priority to you, personnally (instead of having others dictate to you what a priority is) and finding ways to achieve goals.

I also used a Franklin Planner for years (which is based on the Seven Habits) and taught my older son how to use one. I don't think he'd have gotten through high school without it.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:09 am

I think the main issue here is that this thread probably started as spam.

Tyler You know Covey AND Jessica Simpson? Wow. A real hobnobber!!! Can you introduce me to Paris?

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:24 am

Tyler Morris wrote:Sooo....with all the critiquing, has anyone here actually read the book in question?
I feel inclined to speak up because I know Steve personally; he has a lot of really great advice for people, and it's not all just aplicable to the workplace.

Yeah, I had to read it in my Electrical Engineering senior design class
at NCSU (I know, didn't make sense to me, either). It wasn't that bad,
I suppose. It certainly wasn't as fraught with marketspeak as, say,
Who Moved my Cheese. I think his advice on talking to teenagers is
pretty good, and "when negotiating, always keep in mind that failure
is a perfectly viable option" sort of stuff was interesting. But a lot of
the cynical engineers I knew hated it, and thought it was largely
obvious.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:39 am

fearfaoin wrote: Yeah, I had to read it in my Electrical Engineering senior design class
at NCSU (I know, didn't make sense to me, either). It wasn't that bad,

Electrical Engineering? Yikes. I was Computer Science. Much easier and less math.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:49 am

Flyingcursor wrote:Electrical Engineering? Yikes. I was Computer Science. Much easier and less math.

I don't know about that... I doubled in EE and Computer Eng. (which
included a lot of CSC classes), and I'm pretty sure the CSCs had
more math. The only thing EEs took above Calc was Differential
Equations. The CSCs had two Discrete Math-type courses (big-O
notation and proofs and all that), and some other Linear Math class.

missy · Post by **missy** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:00 am

fearfaoin wrote:The only thing EEs took above Calc was Differential
Equations.

The above mentioned classes (four quarters of Calc and one of Differential Equations) was the SOLE reason my degree is in Natural Science instead of Chemistry!!!
I have no problem doing math IN science, but I absolutely HATE taking math classes!!!