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Covey established the "Covey Leadership Center" which, in 1997, merged with Franklin Quest to form [[FranklinCovey]], a global professional-services firm and specialty-retailer selling both training and productivity-tools to individuals and to organizations. Their [[mission statement]] reads: "We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere".
Covey established the "Covey Leadership Center" which, in 1997, merged with Franklin Quest to form [[FranklinCovey]], a global professional-services firm and specialty-retailer selling both training and productivity-tools to individuals and to organizations. Their [[mission statement]] reads: "We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere".


In 2009, Covey launched a career development webinar series to help people struggling in the economic downturn. He plans to offer timely and current topics on a regular basis.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}
In 2009, Covey launched a career development webinar series to help people struggling in the economic downturn. Its purpose was to offer timely and current topics on a regular basis.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}


===Stephen Covey Online Community===
===Stephen Covey Online Community===

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Stephen R. Covey
Born(1932-10-24)October 24, 1932
Salt Lake City, Utah
DiedJuly 16, 2012(2012-07-16) (aged 79)
Idaho Falls, Idaho
EducationB.S.
MBA
DRE
Alma materUniversity of Utah
Harvard Business School
Brigham Young University
Occupation(s)Author, professional speaker, professor, consultant, management-expert
SpouseSandra Covey
Websitestephencovey.com

Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was the author of the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Other books he authored include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. In 2004, Covey released The 8th Habit. In 2008, Covey released The Leader In Me—How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

Early life

Covey was the son of Stephen Glenn Covey and his wife Irene Louise Richards. Louise is the daughter of Stephen L Richards, an apostle and counselor in the first presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under David O. McKay.[citation needed]

Education

Covey earned a B.S. in business administration from the University of Utah, an MBA from Harvard University, and a Doctor of Religious Education (DRE) from Brigham Young University. Covey was a brother of Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity. He was awarded ten honorary doctorates.[1]

Books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Main article: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey's best-known book, has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1989. (The audio version became the first non-fiction audio-book in U.S. publishing history to sell more than one million copies.)[citation needed] Covey argues against what he calls "The Personality Ethic", something he sees as prevalent in many modern self-help books. He instead promotes what he labels "The Character Ethic": aligning one’s values with so-called "universal and timeless" principles. Covey adamantly refuses to conflate principles and values; he sees principles as external natural laws, while values remain internal and subjective. Covey proclaims that values govern people's behavior, but principles ultimately determine the consequences. Covey presents his teachings in a series of habits, manifesting as a progression from dependence via independence to interdependence.

The 8th Habit

In 2004, Covey's book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness was published by Free Press (an imprint of Simon and Schuster). It functions as the sequel to The Seven Habits. Covey claims that effectiveness does not suffice in what he calls "The Knowledge Worker Age". He proclaims that "[t]he challenges and complexity we face today are of a different order of magnitude." The 8th habit essentially urges: "Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs..."

The Leader in Me

In November 2008, Covey released a new book The Leader in Me—How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. This book tells the story of how extraordinary schools, parents and business leaders are preparing the next generation to meet the great challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century. The Leader in Me shows how one elementary school in Raleigh, North Carolina decided to try incorporating The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and other basic leadership skills into their school’s curriculum in unique and creative ways. Inspired by the amazing success of Principal Muriel Summers and the teachers and staff of A.B. Combs Elementary School in Raleigh, other schools and parents around the world have adopted the approach and have seen remarkable results.[2]

Other projects

FranklinCovey

Covey established the "Covey Leadership Center" which, in 1997, merged with Franklin Quest to form FranklinCovey, a global professional-services firm and specialty-retailer selling both training and productivity-tools to individuals and to organizations. Their mission statement reads: "We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere".

In 2009, Covey launched a career development webinar series to help people struggling in the economic downturn. Its purpose was to offer timely and current topics on a regular basis.[citation needed]

Stephen Covey Online Community

In March 2008 Covey launched the Stephen Covey's Online Community. The site is a mash up of online courses, goal management and social networking. Covey uses it as a place to teach his most recent thoughts and ideas on current topics and self leadership, his books as well as goal setting and reaching. The content is shared via videos, podcasts, printable text and online activities. Users are also able to set personal goals, track their progress and share their progress with others within the community.

Utah State University

In February 2010, Covey announced his hire as a professor and first incumbent of the Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair in Leadership at the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Huntsman and Covey were longtime friends. At USU, he taught courses, performed research, and helped to establish the Stephen R. Covey Center for Leadership, in order to better train students in innovation and ethics.[3]

Education initiatives

Covey has developed his 2008 book The Leader in Me into several education-related projects. On April 20, 2010 he made his first post to an education blog entitled Our Children and the Crisis in Education which appears on the Huffington Post news and blog-aggregation website. FranklinCovey has also established a website dedicated exclusively to the Leader In Me concept,[4] and it holds periodic conferences and workshops to train elementary school administrators who want to integrate the Leader In Me process into their school's academic culture.[5]

Opposition to same-sex marriage

Stephen Covey had been controversially[6] active in opposition to same-sex marriage, including giving the keynote address at a $1,000 a plate fund-raiser in Honolulu for Save Traditional Marriage 98 ("STM98"), a political action committee sponsoring a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages.[7]

Personal

Family

Covey lived with his wife Sandra and their family in Provo, Utah, home to Brigham Young University, where Covey taught prior to the publication of his best-selling book. A father of nine and a grandfather of fifty-two, he received the Fatherhood Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative in 2003.

Religion

Covey was a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served a two-year mission in England for the LDS Church.[8] Covey served as the first president of the Irish Mission of the church starting in July 1962.[9]

When Covey studied as an MBA student at Harvard, he would on occasion preach to crowds on Boston Common.[10]

Covey has authored several devotional works for Latter-day Saint or Mormon readers, including:

  • Spiritual Roots of Human Relations (1970)
  • The Divine Center (1982)
  • 6 Events: The Restoration Model for Solving Life's Problems (2004).

Death

Covey died at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho on July 16, 2012 at 2:15 a.m, due to the residual effects of a bicycle accident he suffered the previous April.[11]

Honors and awards

See also

Bibliography

  • Spiritual Roots of Human Relations (1970) (ISBN 0-87579-705-9)
  • The Divine Center (1982) (ISBN 1-59038-404-0)
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989, 2004) (ISBN 0-671-70863-5)
  • Principle Centered Leadership (1990) (ISBN 0-671-79280-6)
  • First Things First, co-authored with Roger and Rebecca Merrill (1994) (ISBN 0-684-80203-1)
  • Living the Seven Habits (2000) (ISBN 0-684-85716-2)
  • 6 Events: The Restoration Model for Solving Life's Problems (2004) (ISBN 1-57345-187-8)
  • The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004) (ISBN 0-684-84665-9)
  • Quest: The Spiritual Path to Success by Stephen R. Covey (Editor) (1997), with Thomas Moore, Mark Victor Hansen, David Whyte, Bernie Siegel, Gabrielle Roth and Marianne Williamson. Simon & Schuster AudioBook ISBN 978-0-671-57484-0
  • The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At a Time (2008) (ISBN 1-43910-326-7)
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Network Marketing Professionals (2009) (ISBN 978-1-933057-78-1)
  • The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems (2011) (ISBN 978-1451626261)

References

  1. ^ "Stephen Covey to join USU's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business". Utah State University. 18 February 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  2. ^ Press Release (Oct 5, 2009). "The 7 Habits Inspire Teachers & Students Worldwide". Retrieved Aug 12, 2011. The Leader in Me is being used by more than 150 elementary schools in the U.S., Canada, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Hungary and the Philippines.
  3. ^ Middleton, Diana (February 17, 2010). "Utah State B-School Hires Stephen Covey". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 18, 2010. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ "The Leader In Me". FranklinCovey. Retrieved Apr. 30, 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  5. ^ "Elementary Education Solutions – The Leader in Me". FranklinCovey. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
  6. ^ Yuen, Mike (August 12, 1998). "Sky's the limit on same-sex fund raising". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  7. ^ "Legal Problems for Anti-Gay Marriage Forces in Hawaii". Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons. March 11, 1998. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  8. ^ Smith, Timothy K. (December 12, 1994). "What's so effective about Stephen Covey? The author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People sells a message of moral renewal, and corporate America is buying it. Is this a good thing?". Fortune magazine.
  9. ^ LDS Church Almanac, 2006 Edition, p. 492
  10. ^ Stahle, Shaun D. (May 17, 2003). "New General Authority: Chip off the ol' block". Church News. Retrieved January 4, 2010.
  11. ^ Harvey, Tom (July 16, 2012). "'The 7 Habits' author Stephen Covey dies". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
  12. ^ a b c d e "Academy Fellow Stephen R. Covey, Ph.D." World Business Academy. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
  13. ^ "Dr. Stephen R. Covey To Present at Cal U Sept. 11–12". California University of Pennsylvania. 2007-08-06. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
  14. ^ "Golden Gavel Recipients". Toastmasters International. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
  15. ^ "Trustees hold first meeting of 2007" (PDF). California University Journal. California University of Pennsylvania. March 26, 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
  16. ^ "Covey selected for Utah Hall of Fame". Deseret News. 29 October 2009.

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