Just finished reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do: just get your own copy, read it, and put it aside for later reference. It had been gathering dust on my bookshelf for the last ten years and I wish I had picked it up earlier. Turning up the contents into a truly transforming experience probably requires a lifetime, but it’s never too late to start.
Archive for January, 2003
7 Habits
January 21, 2003Book stories
January 21, 2003I’m more convinced every day that traditional bookstores simply suck. it took “Les Yeux Fertiles” in Lausanne a full year (yes, twelve months) to fill an order I had placed with them. The FNAC anbd Payot outlets in Geneva are no better. I was
looking for a book today and hoping for instant gratification hit those two stores consecutively. Well none of them even had it on file. The book is Personality Plus, by Florence Littauer.A simple search at Amazon.com returns nine references! The same exercise at Amazon.fr returns seven, mostly irrelevant but the actual book I was looking for was included. UPDATED 2003.02.16 @ 12:30 CET – Cheched Payot’s website and the book in question is listed there although they were incapable of returning a reference to it when I stopped by their store. Go figure…
Rate your physician
January 19, 2003Just came across a site providing American Physician and Hospital Ratings.
I wish this were available in Switzerland as well. The market for healthcare lacks even the most basic level of transparency. The best you’ll get is a recommendation from a friend – or worse, a doctor referring you to a friend of hers. Hopefully we’ll get there some ten years from now…
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2003Happy New Year! Please follow this link if you’re looking for 2002′s Blog. And if working on your Netiquette is part of your new year’s resolutions, feel free to get up to speed here.
