More about the 7 habits of highly gullible people.

"positive thinking had become ubiquitous and virtually unchallenged in American culture.

It was promoted on some of the most widely watched talk shows, like Larry King Live and the Oprah Winfrey Show; it was the stuff of runaway best sellers like the 2006 book The Secret; it had been adopted as the theology of America's most successful evangelical preachers; it found a place in medicine as a potential adjuvant to the treatment of almost any disease. " – Barbara Ehrenreich

Brightsided: When Happiness Doesn’t Help

On Stephen R. Covey, the mormon business evangelical:

Covey might be good for individuals unconnected with a large employer and who seek a sense of empowerment through personal introspection and note-keeping.

However, I see in his presentation the sort of stuff Ehrenreich and Chris Hedges (in Empire of Illusion) wrote about.

I used to teach Covey as replacement priesthood lessons in my younger years in the LDS church. Not 7-Habits stuff but a book called Spiritual Roots of Human Relations. Thought it was great.

However, after surviving an attempt by my employer's (State of Washington) managers and many co-workers to force me to attend a 7-Habits Workshop, I observed and listened when they returned and reported how changed and inspired they felt.

I read the materials they were given and noticed what many considered to be personal power quotes high-lighted or printed on sheets of paper stuck to cubicle walls.
... particularly about taking personal responsibility.

Implicit or implied - their general interpretation was that if the agency fails at a large or small task or the office doesn't do well in some endeavor, the worker could or should always be much more to blame than wise management.

The idea of taking on one's self a personal responsibility for a failure of the parent organization is strictly out of a line-authority notion that higher-ups are usually not be blamed or held accountable.

... because it is unreasonable to believe that they do not know what they are doing at all times

... that it is being negative to doubt their wisdom

... which is what Covey's church (and he is active LDS) teaches about it's  prophet/president and line leadership.

LDS membership is taught and encouraged to trust and accept subjection to priesthood authority and leadership who ... in God's true church ... would never be led astray by God.
Covey's business model teaches essentially the same thing.

A common mormon cliche goes like this: “When the prophet speaks discussion has ended.”

So for 7 habits of gullible employees there is this: Listen up by god!

Management could never be wrong or mislead or incorrect. If your organization fails or goes out of business it's YOUR fault and you owe it to truth and personal responsibility to admit and accept the blame.

Perhaps not openly taught in Covey seminars but heavily implied at least in the government agency that paid Covey’s people to sing that song where I work.