Jim Collins Every so often a book comes along that not only alters the lives of readers but leaves an imprint on the culture itself. It continues, right here in this book as alive today as when first written. In 1997 it merged with Franklin Quest, founded by Hyrum Smith, a time-management expert, to become the Franklin Covey Company. Covey’s life is done, but his work is not. In 1983 he gambled everything he owned on starting the Covey Leadership Center, a training and consulting concern in Provo, Utah. His thesis was on “success literature” in American history.Īt Brigham Young, he became an assistant to the university’s president and began teaching his self-help ideas on campus, drawing as many as 1,000 students in a single class. He sometimes preached the Mormon doctrine on Boston Common.Īfter another missionary stint, in Ireland, he earned a doctorate in religious education from Brigham Young University.
He spent two years in Britain as a Mormon missionary before returning to the United States to earn an M.B.A. He entered the University of Utah at 16 and earned a degree in business administration. “You’re going to do great on this test,” he remembered his mother saying as he went to sleep the night before a school exam. In an interview with Fortune magazine in 1994, he told of his parents’ constant encouragement. Seek first to understand, then to be understood From top-tier executives to students, Covey’s book was the book to read. This book quickly became an international bestseller and a go-to resources for anyone who wanted to improve themselves. All that people had to do was form habits out of their best instincts, he said, calling his seven nuggets of knowledge natural laws, like gravity. In 1989, Stephen Covey changed the world of self-improvement forever when he published his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
He said he was simply telling people what he thought they already knew: the efficacy of good behavior. More than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies flocked to use a consulting company he had founded. Covey over Thanksgiving in 1994, President Bill Clinton said American productivity would greatly increase if people followed Mr. Covey’s book sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, and also became the first audiobook to sell more than a million copies. The cause was complications of a bicycle accident three months ago, his family said in a statement. Covey, who won a global following and a five-year run on best-seller lists by fusing the genres of self-help and business literature in his 1989 book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic,” died on Monday at a hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
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