Book Review: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

While on vacation I had a chance to hit a few off the ol' reading list. One was a classic personal development book - The 7 Habits for short.

In general when i invest time into such books, my simple formula for evaluating is something like (amount learnt) * (quality of the learning) - CONSTANT * (reading time). Im sure the price of the book should be in there too but let's keep things simple and assume unlimited financial resources. Now i don't know what the constant is or what units everything is measured in...but i hope you get the general idea.

To be honest i was a little disappointed by this wildly read book. Although the quality was high I don't feel i learned enough for a book this size. After the first chapter i was already skimming pages, skipping entire sections and wishing there was a reduced version for lazy business students. I found that there was an excessive use of examples (i particularly fell asleep when he referenced problems/solutions with his wife or son) and rambling that bloated this book. The habits are important and i honestly believe that by improving them you will become a more effective person...i would recommend finding and reading a condensed version.

They say 'you can't judge a book by it's cover'...ha! take a look at the long-winded title and you'll get a feel for the entire book.