Here is the List of Books Every
Catholic Business Leader Should Read
The Books Every Catholic Business Leader Should Read has three sections; Personal Development, Professional Mastery and Spiritual Maturity.
Personal Development
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Heroic LivingEach of us has a special purpose in life—do you know what yours is? In Heroic Living, best-selling author and former investment banker Chris Lowney combines the proven practices of Ignatian spirituality with his business expertise to help each of us discover our mighty purpose in life and develop a personal life strategy to achieve it. By merging Ignatian Spirituality with astute business knowledge, Lowney provides the tools and strategies needed to make practical, long-term life changes that move us away from our fractured, compartmentalized lives and toward the satisfaction and wholeness that each of us desires so deeply. Author – Chris Lowney -
Amusing Ourselves To DeathIn the forward of Amusing Ourselves to Death, author Neil Postman compares 1984 and Brave New World. He states that Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World is a society driven by pleasure through entertainment, leisure, and sex would be our undoing. He down-played Orwell’s vision of the future in 1984, where government overreach is responsible for the death of free speech and thought. Turns out he was wrong. Society is going down both paths at the same time. Author – Neil Postman -
1984The Party keeps its citizens under constant surveillance, monitoring even their thoughts, and arresting and “vaporizing” individuals if they show signs of discontent or nonconformity. The Party’s figurehead is Big Brother, whose mustachioed face is displayed on posters and coins, and toward whom every citizen is compelled to feel love and allegiance. Author – George Orwell -
Brave New WorldEvery individual is conditioned both before and after “birth” (there are no mothers) to conform to the moral rules of the World State and to enjoy his or her predetermined job. Each caste is conditioned differently, but all castes are conditioned to seek instant gratification, to be sexually promiscuous, to engage in economic consumption, and to use the drug soma to escape from all unpleasant experiences. The Director calls such conditioning “the secret to all happiness and virtue.” Author – Aldous Huxley
Business Mastery
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Virtuous LeadershipLeadership is character and character is developed through the human virtues. Virtuous Leadership defines each of the classical human virtues most essential to leadership – magnanimity, humility, prudence, courage, self-control and justice. It demonstrates how these virtues promote personal transformation and the attainment of true leadership. Author – Alex Havard -
From Temperament to CharacterOur temperament when understood, undergirds the efforts of all persons to flourish and achieve excellence. It recognizes that temperament does not determine goals (much less outcomes), but instead gives shape and color to the efforts of human beings to flourish through mastering the virtues to ascend from temperament to character, and are no longer slaves to our natural inclinations but have achieved self-mastery in true human freedom. Author – Alex Havard -
Beyond SurvivalOldie but a goodie. Although it was written in the mid-1970’s this book is timeless in the description of a typical business owner and the internal struggles they have and need to address in order to manage a well-planned succession and a graceful and porfitable exit. Author – Leon Danco -
Traction: Get a Grip on Your BusinessThe book is an overview of The Entrepreneurial Operating System® which is a practical method for In Traction, you’ll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key components of your business. You’ll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Author – Gino Wickman -
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About ItAnother oldie. In a nutshell, build processes and then hire and train employees to run the processes. Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Author – Michael E. Gerber
Spiritual Maturity
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From Christendom to Apostolic MissionFrom Christendom to Apostolic Mission helps us understand that we are living in a new cultural situation: no longer in Christendom, where the momentum of culture will naturally help people move toward Christ and his Church, but in a post-Christendom culture that requires a mindset of Apostolic Mission to counteract the influence of culture to help people know, love and follow Jesus and his Gospel. Author – University of Mary -
Divine IntimacyThis book of meditations on developing your interior life is a classic and is seeped in Carmelite spirituality. It offers two daily meditations in liturgical arrangement which enable the soul to enter the conscious presence of God and to reflect on the theme of the day. These are followed by a ‘Colloquy’ that helps the person at prayer to start a friendly conversation with God where acts of praise and love, petition and thanksgiving are made, together with good resolutions for the future. Here we are at the very heart of prayer, which is a heart-to-heart encounter in faith with the living God. – Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen O.C.D. -
Reclaiming Catholic Social TeachingList Item DescrIn out times, many clergy and laymen alike argue that Catholic social teaching requires that we support the demands of a vast — and largely secular — welfare state. With the comprehensive works of Pope Leo XIII as his guide, Esolen shows readers that Catholic social teaching is far more generous and human than any government programs can be, and that there can be no coherent and harmonious society without a full Christian understanding of he nature of man, his eternal destiny, the sanctity of marriage, and the important role of the family in all aspects of human life. Author – Anthony Esolen -
Reclaiming Vatican II: What It (Really) Said, What It Means, and How It Calls Us to Renew the ChurchDuring the past five decades, the Second Vatican Council has been alternately celebrated or maligned for its supposed break with tradition and embrace of the modern world. But what if we’ve gotten it all wrong? Have Catholics—both those who embrace the spirit of Vatican II and those who regard it with suspicion—misunderstood what the council was really about? Author – Fr. Blake Britton -
The Art of Dying WellRather than turning away from death, great saints such as Robert Bellarmine, the author of this book, use it as a lens through which to view life from the right perspective ― God’s perspective. Seen this way, death becomes for them ― and can become for you ― a source of spiritual liberation rather than a reason for fear, enabling you to love the world as it ought to be loved and to answer your final summons with joy. St. Robert Bellarmine makes it simple for you. He explains sixteen things you can do to put your life in order now, so you’ll start living better today and be prepared for death whenever it comes. Author – Saint Robert Bellarmine
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