The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a holistic, integrated approach to solving personal and professional problems by becoming principle-centered. This is a revolutionary guidebook to achieving peace of mind within and building trust without by seeking the roots of human behavior in character and by learning principles rather than merely practices.It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.In this in-depth and entertaining exploration of the Seven Habits, Dr. Covey shows how the 7 Habits are not a Aquick fixA but rather a step-by-step pathway to the principles of fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity that give us the security to adapt to change in our family and business livesAas well as the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities such change creates.In harmony with the natural laws of growth, the 7 Habits provide an incremental, sequential, highly integrated approach to the development of personal and interpersonal effectiveness. They move us progressively on a Maturity Continuum from dependence to independence to interdependence.This is not pop psychology or simply a collection of trendy catch phrases. Rather, Dr. Covey helps the listener examine the character attributes that lead to behaviors. By living with honesty, integrity, kindness, and other time-tested principles, listeners find the real keys to changing unwanted behaviors.