1. Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker.
22 Facts About Stephen Covey
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Stephen Covey was a professor at the Jon M Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the time of his death.
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Stephen Covey was athletic as a youth but suffered from a slipped capital femoral epiphysis in junior high school, requiring him to change his focus to academics and a member of the debate team and graduated from high school early.
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Stephen Covey earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Utah, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a Doctor of Religious Education from Brigham Young University.
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Stephen Covey was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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Stephen Covey was heavily influenced by Peter Drucker and Carl Rogers.
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Stephen Covey argues against what he calls "The Personality Ethic", something he sees as prevalent in many modern self-help books.
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Stephen Covey promotes what he labels "The Character Ethic": aligning one's values with so-called "universal and timeless" principles.
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Stephen Covey adamantly refuses to conflate principles and values; he sees principles as external natural laws, while values remain internal and subjective.
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Stephen Covey proclaims that values govern people's behavior, but principles ultimately determine the consequences.
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Stephen Covey posits that effectiveness does not suffice in what he calls "The Knowledge Worker Age".
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Stephen Covey released The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time in November 2008.
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Stephen Covey was a professor at the Marriott School of Management at BYU for several years, helping to establish the Master of Organizational Behavior program, which has since been merged into the MBA program.
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Stephen Covey developed his 2008 book The Leader in Me into several education-related projects.
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FranklinStephen Covey established a Web site dedicated exclusively to The Leader in Me concept, 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.
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Parents of nine children and grandparents of fifty-five, Stephen Covey received the Fatherhood Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative in 2003.
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Stephen Covey was a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Stephen Covey served a two-year mission in England for the Church.
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When Stephen Covey studied as an MBA student at HBS, he would, on occasion, preach to crowds on Boston Common.
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Stephen Covey authored several devotional works for Latter-day Saint readers, including:.
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Stephen Covey was wearing a helmet but according to his daughter, the helmet slipped and his head hit the pavement.
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Stephen Covey died from complications resulting from the bike accident at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on July 16,2012, at the age of 79.