Brian Tracy, author of Psychology of Achievement Stephen R. Today, Forbes remembers him as a man whose book "brought a new language to business."Īnd while the magazine accepts that many of his words - "seek first to understand, then to be understood " "think win-win" - have become cliche, they "still aren't commonly used in practice. John Pepper, President, Procter and Gamble Stephen Covey is an American Socrates, opening your mind to the permanent things - values, family, relationships, communicating. Covey passed away peacefully on July 16, 2012. Covey’s vision of empowering organizations to implement principle-centered leadership in their cultures.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience," Covey said.Īccording to the AP, after Seven Habits, Covey went on to write three other books that each sold more than a million copies. Covey is co-founder/co-chairman of Franklin Covey Company, the largest management and leadership development organization in the world, dedicated to Dr. "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. 'We want to take this to the whole world.'"ĭuring one presentation in 1994, Covey got that message across by quoting French Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. "'We believe that organizational behavior is individual behavior collectivized,' Covey says. "What Covey teaches is this: To do well you must do good, and to do good you must first be good," Fortune reported. Covey, the magazine reports, believed that humans could do their best by achieving a moral transformation. "Covey's management post at BYU led to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which launched a second career as management guru for companies and government agencies, among them Saturn, Ritz Carlton, Proctor & Gamble, Sears Roebuck and Co., NASA, Black & Decker, Public Broadcasting Service, Amway, American Cancer Society and the Internal Revenue Service.Ĭovey's book is perhaps best summarized by a 1994 profile from Fortune Magazine. "He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Utah, an MBA from Harvard University and a doctorate from Brigham Young University. The Salt Lake Tribune gives us a bit of his biography: In a statement, the family said Covey died due the "residual effects" of a biking accident he suffered in April. He then returned to the US and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.Stephen Covey, whose book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People became a seminal guide to leadership, died this morning. "I got so turned on by the idea of training leaders that it became my whole life's mission," he recalled. This experience altered his parents' plans for him to take over the family hotel business.
Encouraged by his parents, particularly his mother, who constantly re-enforced the idea that "You can do anything you want," Covey refocused on his studies.Īt 16, he entered the University of Utah to read business administration, then had a two-year spell as a Mormon missionary in Britain, where part of his work involved training provincial heads of the church. As a teenager he was forced to give up a promising sporting career due to a degenerative bone condition, which left him using crutches for three years. "If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience," he said, "you will find your definition of success."īorn in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1932, Stephen Richards Covey was the son of Stephen and Irene, a close-knit Mormon family on the outskirts of town. In explaining his second habit, "begin with the end in mind", Covey urged people to consider how they would like to be remembered.
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