The 8th Habit Personal Workbook: Strategies to Take You from Effectiveness to Greatness

by Stephen R. Covey

The essential companion workbook to the bestseller The 8th Habit .

From Stephen R. Covey, bestselling author of The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, comes the accompanying personal workbook that will help you further realize the power of this new habit. The world has changed dramatically since Covey's classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was published. The challenges we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude. In order to thrive in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we need to build on and move beyond effectiveness—to greatness. Accessing the higher reaches of human genius and motivation in today's reality requires a whole new habit.

The questionnaires, tests, self-assessments, and other exercises in this workbook provide a hands-on approach to developing the mind-set, skill-set and tool-set for achieving greatness in the Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit will transform the way you think about yourself and your purpose in life, about your organization and about humankind.

Genres: Leadership, Business, Self Help, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published September 5, 2006

About the author

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Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. His most popular book is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. In 1996, Time magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University (USU) at the time of his death.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is Covey at his BEST. The density of wisdom in this book is amazing. It's definitely worth your time.

[Tiago · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked up this book because I really enjoyed The 7 Habits. I can say that I didn't quite like The 8th Habit. A lot of the book was repeating ideas from The 7 Habits. And the additional information, though interesting, could have been presented better. There was even the seemingly nice idea of introducing videos to illustrate some of the concepts in the book (videos available on their website), but 90% of those videos were borderline useless.

I still think this was worth the read, simply because of some key concepts around the 8th habit and the recap on the 7 habits. But I don't know I'd recommend the book.

[Arun Vasudevan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am follower of 7 habits and try to practice it in both personal and family setting. It was one of the books that really inspired me. The main reason 7 habits was a huge success was because it tells Stephen Covey’s personal story for each of the habits and it has a lot of personal examples to relate to. Whereas this book was very dry and it totally did not influence me. This book just piggybacked on the laurels of 7 habit habit. I wouldn’t recommend this book instead I would read 7 habits again.

[Surya Winata · Rating 5 out of 5]

stephen covey memang mantap...buku ini sangat membantu untuk mempertajam apa yang menjadi tujuan hidup manusia..bukan sekedar efektif, tapi mencapai keagungan, yaitu saat kita mencapai hal untuk apa kita ada di muka bumi ini dan bukan sekedar menjadi produk lingkungan..
bahasanya di beberapa bagian agak berat, tapi very inspired me!!layak dibaca n dimiliki..

[Anisa]

recommended strongly by my mom

[Joel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't read the 7 habits yet, but the 8th habit is a good read. Inspiring, if a bit long-winded toward the end

[Erotic Horizon · Rating 5 out of 5]

The 8th Habit Personal Workbook: Strategies to Take You from Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey (2006)

[Riri Azizah Chairiani · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Cheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Stephen Covey books! I need to just keep them on hand as reminders.

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book to those who read 8th Habit by the author, as the title suggests this is a work book.