Drawing on twenty-five years of teaching and consulting, the author of the best selling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People invites people to centre their lives and leadership around such timeless principles as fairness, equity, justice and integrity that constitute the roots of every family and institution that has ever prospered. Ineffective people try to manage their time around priorities, whereas effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships according to natural laws that are universally valid and constant. Principle-Centred Leadership is the ability to apply these laws to problems and to centre life on the correct principles as the key to personal fulfilment and professional success. The author tackles such issues as the innate human need for progress, how to understand people's potential rather than just their behaviour and demonstrates how lifelong learning as a principle-centred approach can empower relationships at home and at work.