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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 Josephson Institute of  Ethics . www.josephsoninstitue.org

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

“Principles” from The Oxford English Dictionary.

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

The Importance of Values and Principles.

Warren Bennis, various 

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

James E. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner in The Leadership Challenge: How to Accomplish Extraordinary Things in Organizations.

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

Bill George and Peter E. Simis 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.

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.          

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

The Importance of Character

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.

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

How to Start Building Your Character

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”.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

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

Admiral James Stockdale “Machiavelli and Management” in Military 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.

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography.

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

Cicero, De Officiis, (On Duties).

Immanuel Kant from The Oxford Guide to Philosophy.

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

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.

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.

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.

 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.

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, 3^rd Quarter 2009.

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

Some Principles to Live and Lead By

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, 3^rd 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, 3^rd 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 21^st Century.

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