Bibliography

We're reading biographies and business books to identify case examples of virtues in administrative settings and advice on how to grow in those virtues. I chose these books either because I know the author (or subject) and believe that he/she is striving to live a virtuous life, because the book has stood the test of time as a source of wisdom about administration, or just because it looked wise.

Please feel free to suggest new books and/or to offer to read one of the books and contribute to the project, in the comment box below. 


Books about administration

Abbate, John. Invest Yourself: Daring to be Catholic in Today's Business World. North Palm Beach, FL: Beacon Publishing, 2018.  

Abrashoff, Captain D. Michael. It’s Your Ship. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012. 

Arroyo, Raymond. Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2005.    

Ash, Mary Kay. The Mary Kay Way. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.   

Bundles, A'Lelia. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker. New York: Scribner, 2001.

Busch, MacKenzie. The Paperboy: An Oral History of a Living Legend, My Dad, Tim Busch. Parker, Colorado: Outskirst Press, 2020.  

Cathy, S. Truett. Eat More Chicken, Inspire More People: Doing Business the Chick-fil-A Way. Looking Glass Books, 2002. 

Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. New York: Random House, 1998. 

Chouinard, Yvon. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman. New York: Penguin Books, 2016.

Ciocca, Art. Thinking Outside the Box: The Wine Group Story. San Francisco, CA: The Wine Group, 2006. 

Collins, James C. Good to Great. New York: HarperBusiness, 2001. 

Corley, Tom. Change Your Habits and Change Your Life. Minneapolis, MN: North Loop Books, 2016.  (Summarized in Ward, Online Sources below)

Covey, Sean, Jim Huling, and Chris McChesney. 4 Disciplines of Execution. New York: Free Press, 2016.  

Green, David and Dean Merrill. More Than a Hobby: How a $600 Start-Up Became America's Home & Craft Superstore. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2010 

Keller, Gary. The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. Austin, TX: Bard Press, 2013.  

King, W.J. The Unwritten Laws of E ngineering. New York: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001.   

Knight, B. Carolyn. Making it happen: The story of Carl Karcher Enterprises. Anaheim, CA: C. Karcher Enterprises, 1981.   

Koch, Charles G., with Brian Hooks. Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2020.   

Kruger, David Delbert. J.C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. 

LeTourneau, R.G. Mover of Men and Mountains. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 1967.

Luddy, Robert L. Entrepreneurial Life. Raleigh: CaptiveAire, 2018. 

McCormack, Mark H. What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.  

Miller, Norman, Beyond the Norm: The Amazing Story of a Traveling Salesman Who Went the Extra Mile to Become Chairman of Interstate Batteries. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2009  

Monaghan, Thomas. Pizza Tiger. New York: Random House, 1986. 

Rumsfeld, Donald. Rumsfeld’s Rules. New York: Broadside Books, 2013.  

Skrabec, Quentin R. H.J. Heinz: A Biography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.

Stanier, Michael Bungary. The Coaching Habit. Toronto: Box of Crayons Press, 2016.  

Thomas, Seth A. Mastering the Mysteries of Success: 101 Business Lessons Drawn from the Personal Experience of an African Entrepreneur and Billionaire, Dr. Strive Masiyiwa. 2020

Townsend, Robert. Up the Organization. New York: Knopf, 1974.  

Trennert, Jason DeSena. My Side of the Street: Why Wolves, Flash Boys, Quants, and Masters of the Universe Don't Represent the Real Wall Street. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015.

Walton, Sam. Sam Walton: Made in America. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Widmer, Andreas. The Pope and the CEO: John Paul II's Leadership Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Road Publishing, 2011. 

Yoest, John Wesley. The Memo. New York: Post Hill Press, 2017. 

Reference works

Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Theologica. (Cited as part, question, and article, e.g. II-II, q. 47, a. 2.)

Catholic Encyclopedia (CE) 

Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 

Deferrari, Roy J. A Latin-English Dictionary of St. Thomas Aquinas. Boston, MA: Daughters of St. Paul, 1986.  

Peterson, Christopher and Martin E.P. Seligman. Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004. (CSV) All the studies cited in the "Empirical Research" section of each Virtue page are drawn from this comprehensive volume. 

Online sources

Bradberry, Travis. "14 Things Ridiculously Successful People Do Every Day." www.inc.com/travis-bradberry/14-things-ridiculously-successful-people-do-every-day.html 

Freddoso, Alfred J. Translation of the Summa Theologica (in progress), course notes, etc.: https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/

Ward, Marguerite. "9 habits of highly successful people, from a man who spent 5 years studying them." www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/9-habits-of-highly-successful-people.html (summary of Corley). 

This is not a complete bibliography. Sources that are referred to only once are listed under "Further Reading" for the relevant virtue.