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Covey's latest advice book tells workers how to find their voice.(The Seattle Times)
Byline: Shirleen Holt
SEATTLE _ Business is thick with gurus, from screaming pitchmen to tweedy academics. And as veterans like Tom Peters, Ken Blanchard and Anthony Robbins elbow each other for shelf space, new voices keep coming, urging audiences to break all the rules, to swim with the sharks, to move the cheese.
In that sweet spot where business meets self-improvement, no guru is more popular than Stephen R. Covey. The bald, straight-backed and impossibly energetic author's 1989 book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," is one of the top-selling business books of all time (15 million copies sold and counting). His follow-up, "The 8th Habit," has already reached No. 2 on Amazon.com's business best-seller list.
Corporate executives use the seven habits as leadership tools. Employees use them as personal-development tools. Entire organizations build their missions around them. And it's possible that the latest habit _ find your voice and inspire others to find theirs _ could help reinvigorate the empowerment movement that swept ...
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