Whether in his home, on the phone or in encouraging notes along the way, I benefited from his personal mentoring. On a more personal level, Stephen took time to support my own efforts to teach and write. At the height of his fame he was named one of Time magazine’s 25 Most Influential Americans.
The 7 Habits alone has been published in 38 languages.
At more than 20 million books sold, he has clearly been one of the most widely read management thinkers of the last thirty years. Certainly, I have done my fair share of thinking on the principles and ideas he espoused, which have been shared in almost every corner of the world. And by read I mean read, reread, taught, thought deeply about and tried to apply. One group says he was a “snake oil salesman” who “started a wave of BS in the corporate world - all about clichés and posters and one liners.” The other says “he cleared out a lot of BS by making some important ideas simpler to grasp.” Which is it? The comments on these obituaries include two very divergent types.
In a testament to his impact, his passing was news on CNN, The Washington Post and in many other publications around the world. Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, died yesterday.
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