name: Stephen R. Covey
birth_date: 1932-10-24 00:00:00
death_date: 2012-07-16 00:00:00
genres: Business & Investing, Nonfiction
avg_rating: 4.14
ratings_count: 978075
about: Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. His most popular book is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. In 1996, Time magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University (USU) at the time of his death.