The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

 

Shirley J.                  Adult Non-Fiction                               The Age of Information/Technology        

The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey     432 pages

In this book, Stephen Covey continues from where he left off with The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, his previous book to continue and update now that life is all about the Internet and technology, the age of knowledge thereby, Covey discusses how effective people can continue on their journey to greatness with a new mind set and definitley a new skill set or in his words a new habit by becoming savvy in what he terms the new knowledge worker age - ie. it is all about the information at hand and the technological skills to acquire it.   It is no longer o.k. for any organization corporate or otherwise to think that the skills they acquired 20 or 25 years ago are going to stand up to the rapidly changing world around us.   What worked then may still get you there but if you want to excel and continue to be viable you have to open yourself  up to the idea that as information availability changes we must continue to learn and adapt as access to more and more ways to get information, virtual training and keep up with a constantly faster, better source of pulling any thing mankind can conceive from the invisible lightning that is information access.   A good book as his books all are.   I recommend this one to mature teens on up as there is a lot of corporate talk that younger folks might find not to their interests.