Talk:The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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The actual title of the book contains "effective" and not "successful". How can I change the name of the entry?
- Oops. I'll take care of it. If you want to change the title in the future sign in with a username and then use the "move this page" link on the left side of the page. --karlwick
Criticism
The criticism section is pretty weak. There aren't any references provided for the criticism (e.g., "some groups"). So, it might just be anecdotal commentary overheard at a cafe somewhere or perhaps the opinion of the author? How about some substance here? --Davidp 16:22, 3 January 2006 (UTC) 7 habits is totally shit.
This article seems to have been heavily edited by Franklin Covey PR. Frogan 05:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Criticism? This book made me want to puke. It is irrelevant for intelligent and self-motivated people.
No book or speaker will answer all needs. They are there to trigger solutions and insights in intelligent and self-motivated people.
I had thought that Covey's definition of "proactive" was the ability to choose your reaction to any situation or thought, as opposed to just reacting to it? I don't recall Covey ever saying that proactive means, specifically, to take responsibility for your own actions, in those very words. Not that it wouldn't mean that, anyway, but it just sort of comes off as, forgive me, right wing rhetoric while Covey has always been careful about keeping his religion and politics away from his self help career. Pro active essentially means to choose your reaction, that's all. It doesn't necessarily mean to take responsibility for your own action. After all, it's already bad enough that corporations have hijacked the word to make it mean "aggressive" and/or "productive", which the word does NOT mean.
