Ethical Leadership - Recommended Reading List
What comes to mind when you think of leadership skills? High IQ and great people skills? Ability to manage and motivate people? And how about being a “good person”? Since leaders determine culture, being a person of high moral virtuousness becomes a key prerequisite for combating the spread of toxic corporate cultures.
Our recommended reading list for someone aspiring to become a better person and a more Ethical Leader:
- Book: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, by Immanuel Kant, 1785
- Book: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress, by Peter Singer, 1981
- Blog Post: Leadership, by Ethical Systems
- Digital Article: A New Model for Ethical Leadership, by Max Bazerman, Harvard Business Review, September-October, 2020
- Digital Article: Building An Ethical Career, by Isaac H. Smith and Maryam Kouchaki, Harvard Business Review, January-February 2020
- Digital Article: Building An Ethical Company, by Isaac H. Smith and Maryam Kouchaki, Harvard Business Review, November-December 2021
- Digital Chapter: Ethical and Moral Leadership, by Sage Publications, 2020
