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    <body><![CDATA[Ever since I worked at the bookstore at Virginia Tech, I would watch the douchebag* business major undergrads buy this book for their classes and look down upon them, and the book by association, as, well, douchebags.<br/><br/>*This is not to say that all undergrad business majors are douchebags. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6459452">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the sign of a great book is when, right inside the cover there is a pull out brochure that encourages you to order more of the authors products - that's some quality shit when you see that.<br/><br/>But the book itself, well it has charts: flow charts, boxed charts, circle charts, up and d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8260036">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think it is necessary to read the book cover to cover. But I definitely suggest flipping through the pages and reading the main points.<br/><br/>The book uses the famous quote by Aristotle &quot;We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit&quot; and suggests t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/446680">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh my Gawd, how much did I hate this one.  We had to read this the summer before a freshman college Intro to Business Class - perhaps I read it at the wrong age?  When Steven Covey starts talking about his kid mowing the lawn and the motivation behind it...ugh!  <br/><br/>Needless to say, I only g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4803676">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[easy to read :) but hard to do :D hahahah]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I told someone that I had just finished &quot;7 Habits&quot;, they remarked, &quot;Covey sets a very high bar.&quot;  I guess I hadn't thought about it that way, because I was too busy flogging myself for all of the time that I was wasting on what he referred to as Quadrant 1 &amp; 3 activities.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26199906">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I keep hoping that one day, I'll read a self-help book that leads to an epiphany that revolutionizes my life. This was not that book. However, it did have a few good points. Here's what I got out of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1538.Stephen_R_Covey" title="Stephen R. Covey">Stephen R. Covey</a>'s 7 habits:<br/><br/><strong>1. Be proactive.</strong> You choose how to respond to what life throw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50980032">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There are a lot of self help/business improvement books out there... but this is the only one I can fully endorse for everyone.  I had seen this book laying around our house growing up and chalked it up to another pop psychology piece of junk.  But I was turned onto the book as one of the best bosse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3967075">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent system for getting more out of life and becoming more who we want to be.  Like any such system, it can only work to the extent that you put it into practice, but consistent application of its principles does generate positive change.  I find this book to be excellent on re-reading as well....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48262873">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If there is a personal guide author on I can recommend reading, it is Stephen Covey.  His book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been a groundbreaking book for me.  I’ve owned this book for over 11 years, read it once and thought it was a good book.  Then I picked it up again and read i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8103067">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the book the placed the name &quot;Steven Covey&quot; on the map of business and leadership literature. <br/><br/>He centered on the &quot;inside-out&quot; approach, that behaviour can be learned and is not entirely instinctive. A person can break old habits and replace them with more pow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50894330">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this way back in like 1997 or 1996 when my manager at MCI at the time enrolled me in a course related to the book.  I really took a few of the principles to heart that have made me very efficient in my work and one of my favorite principals was something related to 'taking care of small quick t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48281194">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Why I Read this Book: There is nothing more valuable than personal development and improvement. This got me off to a wonderful start.<br/><br/>Review:<br/><br/>Stephen Covey is an absolute master mind when it comes to personal change.  I received this book from my family one Christmas while I wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62837444">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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