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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

You Can't Give What You Don't Have

Greg Hiebert · 2018
78/100
👍 Worth It

A well-credentialed executive coach — West Point, Harvard Business School, McKinsey, Yale — makes a genuinely useful argument: you cannot lead or give to others if you have neglected your own inner health. The seven-habit framework is practical and grounded in positive psychology research, and the case studies give it real texture. It overlaps with Covey territory, but the author's lived experience in high-stakes leadership settings earns it a shelf of its own.

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