Stephen Covey: Been a While

It's been a while since I posted here. I have been on holiday.

This has given me a chance to reflect on my position regarding Stephen Covey and the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (STEPHEN COVEY SEVEN (7) HABITS BOOKS: Click ON ME). Am I fixating more on the fluff around his concepts and not enough on what his concepts actually are? Is it even possible to take on the "pure" message of something without taking on the packaging around a message?

Stephen Covey's books suffer, I think, from this problem (STEPHEN COVEY SEVEN (7) HABITS BOOKS: Click ON ME). It is easy to be dismissive of what he says just because of the "pop psych" feel to The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. This is too bad... The Seven Habits is useful stuff and, in many ways, entirely down-to-earth and not at all "New Age." Yet sometimes this is obscured by (a) it's presentation by its publishers, and (b) its presentation by a cynical pop culture which turns its nose up at anything it thnks might be "happy-clappy."

The Seven Habits, then, must actually be read, regardless of the reader's disdain for the pop psych or management "guru" genres, before the reader can assess what he or she actually thinks of the ideas in the books by Covey.

To use a terrible cliche, it is best not to judge a book by its cover, and to remember that an author is often hijacked by his publicists and publishers into having his book packaged with cheese.

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