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Stephen R. Covey
is an internationally respected leadership authority,
family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, founder
of the former Covey Leadership Center, and cochairman of
Franklin Covey Co.
He has made teaching Principle-Centered
Living and Principle-Centered Leadership his life's work.
He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and a
doctorate from Brigham Young University, where he was a
professor of organizational behavior and business
management and also served as director of university
relations and assistant to the president.
For more than thirty years he has
taught millions of individuals, families, and leaders in
business, education, and government the transforming power
of principles or natural laws that govern human and
organizational effectiveness.
Dr. Covey is the author of several
acclaimed books, including The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People, which has been at the top of the
bestseller lists for over seven years and tied as the #1
Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century in
a survey of Chief Executive Magazine's readers.
More than ten million copies have
been sold in twenty-eight languages and seventy countries.
His books Principle-Centered
Leadership and First Things First are two of
the bestselling business books of the decade.
Dr. Covey and other Franklin Covey
authors, speakers, and spokespersons, all authorities on
leadership and effectiveness, are consistently sought by
radio and television stations, magazines, and newspapers
throughout the world.
Among recent acknowledgments, Dr.
Covey has received the Thomas More College Medallion for
continuing service to humanity, the Toastmasters'
International Top Speaker Award, Inc. magazine's
National Entrepreneur of the Year Lifetime Achievement
Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and several honorary
doctorates.
He has also been recognized as one
of Time magazine's twenty-five most influential
Americans.
Stephen, his wife, Sandra, and their
family live in the Rocky Mountains of Utah.
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