Matt Townsend spent nine years working at FranklinCovey, and four of them working on books with Covey himself, before founding the Townsend Relationship Center.
Covey also founded the Covey Leadership Center, which merged with Franklin Quest in 1997 to form FranklinCovey Co., a company focused on leadership, strategy and individual effectiveness. "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" has sold more than 20 million copies in 38 languages. "It was what he always wished for and a great way to end," Sean Covey said.Ĭovey was once named one of Time magazine's 25 Most Influential Americans and he authored a number of books focused on leadership. Covey's wife, Sandra, and each of his children were with him at the time of his death. We didn't think he would go so soon, but he, all of the sudden, woke up and wasn't feeling well."Īll of Covey's nine children made it back to Idaho Falls Sunday. "He had that bike accident in April and he's been weakening since. "A few days before he was coming home, he started to decline," Covey said of his father. Sean Covey said the entire family had attended a reunion in Montana for the Fourth of July holiday, but most of the family had since returned to their homes. due to "residual effects" of an April bicycling accident. Covey, who made his name teaching and encouraging millions through his bestselling book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," died Monday at the age of 79.Ĭovey passed away at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center at 2:15 a.m. He believed in you and was so positive and that's how he was with everyone." You talk to any one of us kids and the first thing we would say about our dad is that he affirmed the individual, always. You were getting beat up and you kept getting up. "After the game, he waited for me outside of the locker room and I came out and he hugged me and said, 'Sean you were marvelous out there today.' I said, 'No, Dad, that was the worst game I ever had.' He said, 'No. "I played terrible," he told the Deseret News Monday. Sean Covey remembers the game wasn't his best. In one such instance, Stephen Covey made special arrangements to make it back from a work assignment overseas to watch his boy play. SALT LAKE CITY - When Sean Covey was playing football at BYU, his father would sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to attend his games. The most powerful thing about Stephen, honestly, is that he really was, truly, who he said he was.
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