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By Felix Gillette

July 18, 2012 at 2:25 PM UTC

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This article is part of the July 23, 2012 issue of businessweek.

The prophet Moses delivered the Ten Commandments. The psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross came up with the Five Stages of Grief. Stephen Covey gave us The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

A luminary in the field of American self-help by the numbers, Covey passed away on Monday, July 16, in a hospital in Idaho from complications following a bicycle accident. He was 79.