FOUNDATIONAL ESSAYS

The writing of essays that provide foundational ideas for ethical leadership is an ongoing project for Desmond Berghofer and Geraldine Schwartz.  For the most part these essays summarize the main ideas of key books that together help to make up a comprehensive worldview for the ethical leader.  These essays provide the central ideas presented in the Ethical Leadership Workshops and in the Facilitator Training programs.  The content constitutes a major part of the extended training of facilitators before they are certified as Facilitators of Ethical Leadership.

The essays also provide a foundation to the Discipline of Ethical Leadership, where a bibliography is provided of the key works.  The essay titles are arranged below under the same categories as used in the bibliography.  For further information about any essay or to enquire more generally about the teaching and learning of ethical leadership, please contact us.

List of Foundational Essays (Including Authors of the Relevant Books)

Ethics

• Ancient Wisdom: Modern World - The Dalai Lama
• Being Good - Simon Blackburn
• Truth, Beauty, Goodness and Unity - Tom Morris
• Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living - Rushworth Kidder
• Ethical Leadership Is Embedded in our DNA

 

 Leadership

• Presence - Peter Senge et al
• Leadership and Transformational Change - Peter Senge et al
• The Servant As Leader - Robert Greenleaf
• Principle-Centred Leadership - Stephen Covey
• Insights on Leadership - John Gardiner, Parker J. Palmer, Joseph Jaworski
• Finding Our Way - Margaret Wheatley
• Leadership and Greatness - Peter Kostenbaum
• Overcoming Life's Disappointments - Harold Kushner

 

Psychology

• The Power of Relationships - Bruce Lipton, Daniel Goleman et al

 

Science

• Parallel Worlds: Search for Meaning in the Reality Revealed by Physics - Michio Kaku
• The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
• Science and the Akashic Field - Ervin Laszlo
• Science and the Re-enchantment of the Cosmos - Ervin Laszlo
• Entangled Minds - Dean Radin
• Natural Law and the Unified Field - John Haeglin
• The Field - Lynne McTaggart
• The Intention Experiment - Lynne McTaggart

 

Ecology

• The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery
• The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock
• An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore
• Connections: The Web of Life, A Roundtable of Leading Thinkers, State of the World 2006 - The Worldwatch Institute

 

Sociology

• The Integral Approach - Ken Wilber

 

History

• The Great Transformation - Karen Armstrong
• A Short History of Progress - Ronald Wright

 

Economics

• The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
• Gaian Democracies - Roy Madron and John Jopling

 

Spirituality

• Integral Spirituality - Ken Wilber
• The Isaiah Effect - Gregg Braden
• A Global Family - Frank Parkinson