Sometime within the last four years (I think), I thought I read a
review of a book that argued against the principles presented by
Stephen Covey in his 7 Habits books.  I cannot find the book.  Maybe I
was dreaming in dramamine.  Can you find the book?

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 20 Jan 2004 13:40 PST

Do any of these sound familiar?

The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People: Low Effort Lessons in
Mismanaging for Success (1994)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0806515821/

The 77 Habits of Highly Ineffective People (2000)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0836217527/

7 Habits of Highly Defective People (1996)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0787107484/

The 7 Habits of Highly Happy People (1996)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879057319/

The Habits of Seven Highly Annoying People (1996)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1887317023/

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Request for Question Clarification by markj-ga on 20 Jan 2004 15:28 PST

Turtelboy --

There's no way to be sure about this without getting your reaction
first, so I am posting this information as a comment instead of as an
answer.  Could the book you recall be "The Witch Doctors: Making Sense
of the Management Gurus," by by John Micklethwait and Adrian
Woolridge?

It was published in 1996 and excerpted by Business Week in 1999.  Here
is a link to one excerpt that has a lot of negative things to say
about Stephen Covey and his "Seven Habits . . .":

Business Week OnlineThe Wild Side of Management Theory Is Where the Money Is 
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/news/coladvice/book/bk991015.htm

markj-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by markj-ga on 20 Jan 2004 15:30 PST

turtleboy --

Please pardon me for misspelling your screen name above.

markj-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by markj-ga on 27 Jan 2004 05:23 PST

turtleboy --

I remain curious as to whether the book I suggested in my first
clarification request ("The Witch Doctorss: Making Sense of the
Management Gurus") is the one you remember.  If it is, I will post the
information as an answer, along with my search strategy, and close the
question.  If it is not, I expect that other researchers would be
interested in resuming the search, hopefully with the benefit of any
further details that you recall about the book.

markj-ga

I couldn't find your book, but I did find two articles which criticize
the Covey books from a mainstream Christian standpoint:

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c12.html

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c13.html

And here's a description of another article that may interest you:

http://www.lds-mormon.com/covey.shtml