{"id":6289,"date":"2012-07-16T20:44:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T00:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2012-07-16T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T00:45:29","slug":"us-motivational-author-stephen-covey-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/us-motivational-author-stephen-covey-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"US motivational author Stephen Covey dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/covey.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6290\" title=\"covey\" src=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/covey.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>Covey was most recently a professor at Utah State University<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>(BBC) Motivational author Stephen Covey, who wrote the best-selling The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has died at the age of 79.<\/p>\n<p>Covey passed away at an Idaho hospital on Monday from complications caused by an April bicycle accident in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was surrounded by his loving wife and each one of his children and their spouses, just as he always wanted,&#8221; the family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Covey reportedly sold more than 20m books in his career.<\/p>\n<p>In April, he was brought to hospital after being knocked unconscious in an accident on a steep road.<\/p>\n<p>His publicist, Debra Lund, said at the time that doctors had not found any signs of long-term damage to his head.<\/p>\n<p>Covey grew up in a tight-knit Mormon family on an egg farm near Salt Lake City,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/fortune_archive\/1994\/12\/12\/80049\/index.htm\">according to a Fortune magazine profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After gaining an MBA from Harvard University and a doctorate from Brigham Young University, Covey became a business management professor at Brigham Young.<\/p>\n<p>With the success of the 1989 publication of Seven Habits, Covey began a management consulting business that proved popular with major companies and government agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covey was most recently a professor at Utah State University (BBC) Motivational author Stephen Covey, who wrote the best-selling The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, has died at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/us-motivational-author-stephen-covey-dies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}