Stephen Covey, The seven habits of highly effective people

There are two ways to learn lessons and bring changes in life. First is the most formative way, learning from our own experience. Eventhough this is the best way, life is too short to experiment on each and everything. By the time we realize certain things, it may be too late.
Other way which may be less effective which is to learn from others or from a book or from a training.
I sought for a training and then found and enrolled for one titled "The 7 habits of highly effective people". That training gave a new perspective to personality development. It is an inside-out approach i.e, to develop inside first before concentrating on personality techniques.
Recently I completed the book by the same trainer, Stephen Covey. I found it to be very useful.

Wiliam Montgomery Watt, The formative period of Islamic thought

Ahl as-sunna wa-l-Jama`a,  "people of the tradition of Muhammad and the consensus of the Ummah" is the main subject of the book titled The formative period of Islamic thought written by William Montgomery Watt. He explained about the formation of main sects and schools after prophet Muhammed till mid tenth century AD which is the end of formatve period, analyzed its course and influence to the mainline Islam.
The book has 3 parts, The Begninngs(632-750), The Century of struggle(750-850) and The triumph of Sunnism(850-945). Part one has  5 chapters - 

Chapter 1 the Kharijites(main topic - murder of Uthman, happening at Siffin, Harura and an-Nahrawan, ibn-al-Azraq and Najda/Najdites), 

Chapter 2 proto-Shiíte phenomena under the umayyads(main topic - 'the family' possessed special qualities), 

Chapter 3 the general religious movement (main topics - politics in umayyad period and Hasan al Basri), 

Chapter 4 God's determination of events(main topic - ummayad claim of divine authority and Qadarites), and 

Chapter 5 Faith and community(Main topic - postponement of a decision about Uthman and Ali, iman vs islam, moral laxity and Murjites and Jahmites).
Part two has 3 chapters - 

Chapter 6 the establishmet of the Abbasids (main topics - theoretical basis of Abbaside rule, Rafidites or Imamites, Zaydites, Uthmanites and the self assertion of Persians), 

Chapter 7 the attraction of reasoning (main topic - begninngs of reasoning and Kalãm, early exponents - Hisham, Dirãr, Bishr al Marisi and an-Najjar, and Al-Kindi and the Falãsifa) and 

Chapter 8 the great Mu`tazilites (main topic - the school of Basra and Baghdad and five principles)
Part 3 has two chapters - 

Chapter 9 the polarity of Sunnism and Shí`ism (main topic - Sunni - canon of Traditions, legal rites or schools, Quranic sciences and Sufîs, and Shî`ites - Ismal'ites or seveners, Zaydism in Yemen and formation of Imamism) and 

the final chapter 10 the maturing of Sunnite theology (main topic - Sunnites - aftermath of Mihna, the hanafites, ibn-Kullab and al-Qalanisi, ibn-Karram and Ahmad ibn-Hanbal, the silver age of Mu`tazilsm, al-Ash`ari and al-Mãturidi from Samarqand, by the death of al-Ash`ari doctrines of creed has attained more or less final form)