The company should consider both its employees and its clients primarily as people—then everything else will come naturally. That is the main idea of this book. If a leader treats employees as partners, not as one of many resources, they achieve fantastic results. If the leader sees clients not as a source of income, but as people he provides a service for, they come back again and again. The author lays out 10 core principles of people-oriented leadership and explains them in detail with examples from the history of the Starbucks coffeehouse chain.