What ‘7 Habits’ Shared With ‘Das Kapital’
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When self-help author and business motivational speaker Stephen R. Covey died last week, few would have suspected that his life’s work shared a central concern with that of Karl Marx.
Covey’s work held enormous appeal for business leaders. His numerous bestsellers, starting with “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” in 1989, were purchased in bulk by human-resource departments, given away in management-training programs, and widely read by women and men straddling that late 20th-century temporal abyss that came to be known as the work-life divide. The book sold more than 25 million copies.