Book Report #62

The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People by Stephen R. Covey

I love self-help books. I think Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influence People is fantastic. And I'd heard such good things about this one that I was looking forward to reading it.

What a disappointment. I can't stand when I pick up a book and it assumes I am riddled with deficiencies. The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People assumes that I need to make a zillion changes within myself and purports to tell me how to go about doing that. No thanks. I'm doing fine.

Covey did nothing to convince me that he was even an authority on these matters which made his assertions that much easier to disregard. Plus, his writing was a disgrace. He put no priority on efficient communication. His concepts were simple and the whole thing could have been done in ten pages rather than 300.

General consensus: I'm blown away that this guy has pages of credible sources saying his book is excellent. Now my reliance on these sources is in question.