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First Things First by: Stephen R. Covey, A.Roger Merrill List Price: £14.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.74 You Save: £5.25 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 158 EAN: 9780684858401 ISBN: 0684858401 Label: Simon & Schuster Ltd Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Ltd Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: January 04, 1999 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd Studio: Simon & Schuster Ltd Sales Rank: 9162 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - DisappointingCovey's '7 Habits' had some good ideas but was too long. This book is also over-written but, for me, contains very little of value. It reads like a course manual and is certainly directed to an American audience. Practically every example involves the office or the family - perhaps the authors think that only executives with a spouse and children have busy lives. Many of the example stories serve only to highlight the wisdom of the authors in solving the problems of others. The stories they relate about their own families are frightening - do they really believe that American families are so dysfunctional that they need to be run like a business, with meetings, schedules, mission statements and feedback? My favourite line appears ... Read More: Rating:  - too much of a (not so) good thingThis is a very thick, dense book, full of words and more words.It is supposed to teach the reader how to get more time for doing those things we all want to do - how to be better organised; if only someone applied the same rules to their book! Getting the main points out of this abundance is not easy -everything is laboured to death and so the progress is slow, with time spent discussing other non-productive ways and reasons for their limitations - Do I care? A person or average intelligence would get it from a few bullet-point statements but the book goes on and on - and on... But that isn't even the worst of it. Reading this book has been one of those 'I could kick myself for buying - let alone reading' ... Read More: Rating:  - Excellent bookI have now read 7 habits and now this book. i find them very interesting and mylife is changing in the right direction if I apply the rules and things Stephen are writting about. My next goal is to attend a workshop on this. it is properly expensive, but I belive it will be worth every cent! Keld Ps: I don't find their web site to very good. But check it out, you can build you own personal missions statement, whitch is pretty cool. they should get into Pocket pc instead of Palm...! Rating: - A fundamental piece of literature - but is it right?Dr Covey appears to have worked out life to a mint here - how to organise every second of your life to what you want to do, and how to make decisions based on what you set yourself. He starts from the roots - and tells you how to lead yourself to form your character, with a singular mission in life based on your values, which form the secondary base of the leadership principles he describes. It's a complicated process which needs all 368 pages to explain, and a lot of effort to start the ball rolling if you are serious about your life. It seems you might as well call this book 'how to live'. But - one problem - doesn't what you value in life (the base upon which his life leading strategy lies upon), change over time - so what you achieve from using ... Read More: Rating: - Sets the direction & energy to persue our Real Goals easiy.I have organized an audio program for one hour of Stephens to my students who are going to be our software engineers. To my surprise they have spent four hours listening and deliberating on the contents of the cassettee and I was amazed because it is not very easy to listen to one subject continuously for four hours, that to with replays. The concept of compass,paradigm and the time matrix are some of the real conceptual tool that can help us in analysing and assessing our goals. Stephen, you book is really great. It would be an honour to meet you, talk to you or at leasy receive a mail from you. Thanks stephen for making careers of so many of my employees purposeful . |
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