The author invites business readers to center their professional lives around principles of excellence and quality and discusses the six conditions of effectiveness and the patterns of organizational excellence.

"A Fireside book." Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1991. Includes index.

Section 1. Personal and interpersonal effectiveness. -- 1. Characteristics of principle-centred leaders -- 2. Seven habits revisited -- 3. Three resolutions -- 4. Primary greatness -- 5. A break with the past -- 6. Six days of creation -- 7. Seven deadly sins -- 8. Moral compassing -- 9. Principle-centred power -- 10. Clearing communications lines -- 11. Thirty methods of influence -- 12. Eight ways to enrich marriage and family relationships -- 13. Making champions of your children -- Section 2. Managerial and organizational development -- 14. Abundance managers -- 15. Seven chronic problems -- 16. Shifting your management paradigm -- 17. Advantages of the PCL paradigm -- 18. Six conditions of empowerment -- 19. Managing expectations -- 20. Organizational control versus self-supervision -- 21. Involving people in the problem -- 2. Using stakeholder information systems -- 23. Completed staff work -- 24. Manage from the left, lead from the right -- 25. Principles of total quality -- 26. Total quality leadership -- 27. Seven habits and Deming's 14 points -- 28. Transforming a swamp into an oasis -- 29. Corporate constitutions -- 30. Universal mission statement -- 31. Principle-centred learning environments. -- Epilogue: Fishing the stream -- A personal note.