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References in Order of Citation

 

Definitions

 

“Morals” and “Ethics” from The Oxford English Dictionary.

 

Colonel John W. Brinsfield, Chaplain Corps U.S. Army, "Army Values and Ethics" in Parameters, Autumn 1998.

 

“Values” from The Oxford English Dictionary.

 

“Values” from Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.

 

“Principles” from The Oxford English Dictionary.

 

“Principles” from Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.

 

Values, Principles and Integrity for Leadership

Random House Dictionary and Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary respectively.

Kim Cameron, “Leading Change: Try Using Virtuousness” in Leadership Excellence, May 2006.

Warren Bennis, various 

Bill George and Peter E. Sims in True North.

Corbert R. King, on the editorial page of the Washington Post,  24 May 2003 recounting what he had earlier told the 2003 graduates of the University of Maryland's, Phillip Merrill School of Journalism.

Moving From Integrity to Character for Leadership

Felicia Mainella , “Leadership Insights and Applications: Character and Leadership” a research paper for the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs. 

William Shakespeare, Sonnet xxxv.

James H. Toner, in True Faith and Allegiance: The Burden of Military Ethics.

John McCain with Mark Salter, Character is Destiny.     

 

Jonathan Alter “Back to the Bagman” in Newsweek November 8, 2010.

 

The Importance of Character for Leadership

 

James E. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner in the “Seven Lessons of Leadership” in the Leader of the Future, Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and Richard Beckhart, eds.

 

Frances Hesselbein in “How to Be a Leader” in The Leader of the Future.

 

David Hackett Fischer Washington’s Crossing

 

Ibid.

 

John Maxwell various.

General  H. Norman Schwarzkopf USA (Ret), graduation speech at the University of Richmond, June 1991.

Wooden on character in both John Wooden Successful Leadership: How to Build a Winning Organization and John Wooden and Jay Carty; Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success.

Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis in Judgment.

How to Start Building Your Character

 

Joseph L. Badarocco, “The Discipline of Building Character” in the Harvard Business Review of January 2006.

 

Benjamin Franklin, The  Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

 

Values

 

Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.

 

Joseph S. Nye in The Powers to Lead,  Chapter 5 “Good and Bad Leaders”.

 

Personal Values=Virtue Ethics

 

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

 

Prof. Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford and Georgetown Univ. “Four Theories of the Good Life” in Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition via the Teaching Company at www.TEACH12.com 

 

Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing.   

 

Admiral James Stockdale “Machiavelli and Management” in Military Ethics.

 

Augustine and Thomas Aquinas from the Oxford Guide to Philosophy.

 

Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg College in The American Mind via the Teaching Company at www.TEACH12.com.

 

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography.

 

Guelzo.

 

Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic.

 

Leadership Values

 

Professor Robert C. Bartlett, “Inside Aristotle’s Greatest Ideas” in Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates and Aristotle via The Teaching Company at www.Teach12.com.

 

Cato from Wikipedia.

 

David McCollough 1776.

 

Cicero, The Oxford Guide to Philosophy

 

Cicero, De Officiis, (On Duties).

 

Robinson.

 

Immanuel Kant quoted in The Oxford Guide to Philosophy.

 

Rushwell Kidder, “Universal Human Values” in The Leader’s Companion (Chapter 64) and the Institute for Global Ethics website.

 

Professional Values =Professional Ethics

 

Jon Meacham “Topic of the Week” in Newsweek January 2010.  Meacham cites the Gregory Hay’s translation of the Meditations  of Marcus Aurelius in the Modern Library Edition of 2002.

 

Prioritizing Your Chosen Values

 

Cicero, De Officiis, (On Duties).

 

Michael S. Kimmel, author of The Gendered Society, quoted in the New York Times, February 24, 2008.

 

James B. Stewart in Tangled Webs cited and discussed in Newsweek April 28, 2011.

 

Walter Issacson “Colin Powell: The Good Soldier in American Sketches.

 

Nye in The Powers to Lead, Chapter 5 “Good and Bad Leaders” and Appendix “A Dozen Quick Take-Aways”.

 

James H. Toner,  "Leadership. Community and Virtue" in the Joint Forces Quarterly, Spring 1996.

 

Joseph L. Badarocco  in his contribution to  the collection Harvard Business Review on Leadership. See also  Joseph L. Badarocco in “Leading Quietly” from Wall Street Journal of April, 5, 2004.

 

 Ed Ruggero and Dennis F. Haley  in The Leader's Compass: A Personal Leadership Philosophy is Your Key to Success. 

 

Dawn-Marie Driscoll, W. Michael Hoffman and Edward Petry in The Ethical Edge.

 

President Barack Obama in speech to the nation January 12, 2011.

 

Principles

 

Oxford English Dictionary.

 

Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.

 

Oxford English Dictionary.

 

Bill George in True North.

 

Donald Phillips, Lincoln on Leadership. 

 

Survey in Chief Executive magazine.

 

Stephen R. Covey in Principle-Centered Leadership.

 

Stephen R. Covey,”Leading by Compass” in Executive Excellence, June 1991 and elsewhere.

 

Covey  “Leading by Compass”.

 

Covey, author’s materials provided at seminar by Covey Leadership Center led by Stephen R. Covey, 1997.

 

See topic “Introduction to Leadership”, sub-topic “The Foundation of Leadership”

 

Richard B. Myers and Albert C. Pierce “Strategic Leadership” in Joint Forces Quarterly Issue 54, 3rd Quarter 2009.

 

See Stephen R. Covey, “Seven Habits Revisited” in Executive Excellence  May 2003.

 

Some Principles to Live and Lead By

 

Aristotle quoted by Professor Robert C. Bartlett, “Inside Aristotle’s Greatest Ideas” in Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates and Aristotle via the Teaching Company.

 

Dr. Samuel Johnson “Life of Sir Francis Drake” in Gentleman’s Magazine July 1740.  Discussed in “Johnson’s Use of Sources in the ‘Life of Sir Francis Drake’ in the Rocky Mountain Review Vol; 42, No.4 (1988) accessed via www.JSTOR.org.

For example in James MacGregor Burns' "Moral Leadership" in The Leader’s Companion, Chapter 61 and in the article "Fourteen Traits, Eleven Principles, But Only One Belief" by Captain Robert F. Simi, USMC in the Marine Corps Gazette June 1996..  

Rushwell Kidder, “Universal Human Values” in The Leader’s Companion, Chapter 64.

Luke 6/31 and Matthew 7/12 in the New Testament.

 

Hadith of Mohammad, provided by FSO Sandie Brito, JMIC student Spring 2003.

 

Tibetian Buddist Aphorism cited by Amanda Russell, cultural anthropologist.

 

Hindu aphorism, President of India quoted in Sophies’ World by Jostein Gaarder.

 

Aubrey Newman in   Follow Me II: More on the Human Element of Leadership.:

 

 Jeremy Bentham in Principles of Morals for Legislation.

  See John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, the writings of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence

Ron Susskind, the One Percent Doctrine:  Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11.

Specific Values and Associated Principles

 

Ludwig Willgenstein quoted by Paul Johnson in Heroes.

 

Habits

 

Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics.

 

Writing about the US Naval Academy Character Development Program in the  U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, April 1995

 

Ronald Reagan, graduation address at the Citadel, 1996.

 

Covey, seminar materials.

 

General Carl Mundy, USMC (Ret.) speaking to a U.S. Naval Institute ethics panel, on 27 April 1997.

 

For an interesting discussion of the character of Thomas Jefferson, see Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.

 

Everett Dirksen quoted on the puzzle pages of USAToday 11 and 12 December 2008.

 

Ethical Decisionmaking

 

William Nolte “Ethics and Intelligence” in Joint Forces Quarterly, Issue 54, 3rd Quarter 2009.

 

Warren Bennis and Noel Tichy, “Making Tough Calls” in Leadership Excellence, June 2008.

 

An American governmental Leader should have a good grounding in the empiricist, utilitarian and liberal philosophies of David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Frances Hutcheson, John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau and others.

 

Richard B. Myers and Albert C. Pierce in “On Strategic Leadership” in Joint Forces Quarterly Issue 54, 3rd Quarter 2009.

 

Charles A. Pfaff, “Officership: Character, Leadership and Ethical Decisionmaking” in Military Review March-April 2003. This conclusion is based on research and discussion in Donald M. Snider, John A. Nagl and Charles A. Pfaff in The Army Profession: Officership and Ethics in the 21st Century.

 

Montgomery Van Wart Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service: Theory and Practice,  “An Ethics Based Approach to Leadership”, Chapter 12.

 






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