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His insight helped to shape the future of an untold number of businesses, resulting in better jobs and indeed better lives for people around the world. Covey said in the article that he believed that experience helped alter the course of his life.
Warren Tate, of Holladay, spent his entire mission under the leadership of Covey whose young age, Tate said, only made him easier to relate to. Tate said when he got off the plane in Belfast, Covey was there to meet him. Tate had assumed he would get a nice meal at the mission home, but Covey had different ideas. Instead, the man drove Tate and another new missionary downtown, where Covey stood on the steps of a bank and began to teach.
Tate said that in the near 50 years since that time in Ireland, and as he has developed a career in commercial real estate, he often asks himself, "What would President Covey do?
Some people fail in their family lives or don't measure up here and there. His life has been in absolute congruity with what he has taught.
He never let me down. Greg Link, a friend and business partner who knew Covey for 25 years, said Covey always wanted to be an educator and was supported in that effort by his mother.
Covey graduated from the University of Utah, went on to earn a master's in business administration from Harvard and received a doctorate from Brigham Young University. He went on to receive a number of honorary doctorates and many of the state's universities issued statements at his passing. Covey loved that his book "The Leader in Me" is used as the basic curriculum at more than leadership academies for students in grades K The expanse of his teachings spanned from young students to corporations, Link said, as FranklinCovey has worked with 75 percent of the companies on the Fortune list.
Townsend said Covey has transformed Utah into a "mecca" of training and leadership and his impact is hard to measure. But Sean Covey said his father's legacy is rooted in his family, which was his "greatest love. Sean Covey said he cultivated a family culture in which friendships spanned generations. Monitor Daily. Photo Galleries. About Us. Get stories that empower and uplift daily. See our other FREE newsletters.
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