Patron Saint of Business Management : A New Management Style from a Wise Monk.
Title:
Patron Saint of Business Management : A New Management Style from a Wise Monk.
Author:
Farago, Anna.
ISBN:
9781897415788
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (178 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- The Life of Saint Benedict -- History of the Benedictine Order -- Asceticism and Monasticism -- Rule 1 Of the Kinds of Life of Monks -- Rule 2 What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be -- Rule 3 Of Calling the Brethren to Counsel -- Rule 4 Of Obedience -- Rule 5 Of Silence -- Rule 6 Of Humility -- Rule 7 Of the Divine Office During the Night -- Rule 8 How the Divine Office Is to Be Said During the Summer Season -- Rule 9 Of Reverence at Prayer -- Rule 10 Of the Deans of the Monastery -- Rule 11 Of Excommunication for Faults -- Rule 12 How Concerned the Abbot Should Be About the Excommunicated -- Rule 13 Of Those Who Having Often Been Corrected Do Not Amend -- Rule 14 Whether Brethren Who Leave the Monastery Ought to Be Received Again -- Rule 15 How Young Boys Are to Be Corrected -- Rule 16 and 38 Cellarers and Priors-Assistants -- Rule 17 Of the Tools and Goods of the Monastery -- Rule 18 Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own -- Rule 19 Whether All Should Receive in Equal Measure What Is Necessary -- Rule 20 Of the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen -- Rule 21 Of the Sick Brethren -- Rule 22 Of the Aged and Children -- Rule 23 At What Times the Brethren Should Take Their Reflection -- Rule 24 Of Those Who Are Tardy -- Rule 25 Of Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters -- Rule 26 Of the Daily Work -- Rule 27 Of Brethren Who Work a Long Distance from the Oratory Or Are on a Journey -- Rule 28 Travelling and Returning the Same Day -- Rule 29 Of the Reception of Guests -- Rule 30 Monks Receiving Letters or Anything Else -- Rule 31 Clothing and Footgear of the Brethren -- Rule 32 Manner of Admitting Brethren -- Rule 33 Of Priests Who May Wish to Live in the Monastery -- Rule 34 How Stranger Monks Are to Be Received -- Rule 35 Of the Order of the Monastery -- Rule 36 Of the Election of the Abbot.
Rule 38 Of the Porter of the Monastery -- Rule 39 Brethren Sent on a Vacation -- Rule 40 If Commanded to Do Impossible Things -- Rule 41 Defending One Another -- Rule 42 That Brethren Be Obedient to One Another -- Rule 43 Of This, That Not the Whole Observance of Righteousness Is Laid Down in This Rule.
Abstract:
After decades of faddish management styles that emulate everything from samurai warriors to Napoleon to intrepid yet unsuccessful British explorers, we have arrived at a workplace environment chararcterized by a lack of job security, low employee morale and a lack of employee loyalty. It is time for a common-sense way to manage people and their work. Enter St. Benedict ... St. Benedict was an Italian cleric who set up the first monasteries in the West in the fifth century AD and established the Benedictine Order. In his book, The Rule of St. Benedict, he sets out in clear and easy-to-understand language the basics of organizing and motivating people. Since St. Benedict's time 1,500 years ago, the Benedictine monks have run universities and hospitals, foundries and wineries. They have monasteries on five continents and their organization has survived wars, revolutions and plagues. They must be doing something right.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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