Title: Managing the Good Life
Subtitle: A Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for Business Practitioners
Subject Classification:  Business and Management, Decision Making, Philosophy  
BIC Classification: KJG, HP, KJ
BISAC Classification: BUS008000, PHI005000, BUS071000
Binding: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Publication date: 27 Nov 2023
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-129-2
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-130-8
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80441-424-8

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Description

This is a well-known translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics that is accompanied by a chapter-by-chapter commentary that is directed toward business executives, or those that aspire to become one. Taken together, the book provides a deep guide for how to live a fully integrated, flourishing life of excellence as a business manager. The book can be read independently, but can also provide the foundational content for a course on virtuous leadership or business ethics. The intended audience includes students of business ethics as well as individual business managers seeking insight into how to be excellent at what they do. Most modern managers and business students find philosophy books hard to read and understand. This approach gets such readers knowledgeable with the original source material, helps them develop a knack for reading this style of writing for the future, and helps them apply the principles in the book to their own professional lives.

Biography

Author(s):  Michael Ryall is Professor of Management Programs and Policy Director for the Madden Center for Value Creation at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, USA. Lauren Moss is a practicing lawyer in Toronto, Canada, with degrees in philosophy and business management.

Reviews

"Ryall and Moss have constructed an accessible commentary on *Ethics* with business practitioners in mind, especially those who are currently in or aspire to positions of leadership. They provide a great service to the reader by choosing to weave their commentary into the full translated text of *Ethics*. Given that Aristotle's words remain surprisingly accessible with the right translation, denying the reader an opportunity to connect and communicate across millennia would have been a massive opportunity lost. Ryall and Moss capitalize on the fact that such deep answers were offered by a fellow human being living in much different times is inspirational in and of itself by respecting the reader's ability to share in that experience directly. I would highly recommend this book to anyone teaching a business ethics course. To the extent that the commentary treats *Ethics* as a manual for life that uses philosophy rather than a philosophy manual that includes discussions on life, it provides a unique form of *Ethics* that works well in the classrooms of a business school rather than those in a classics department."
- Professor Byung Soo Lee, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

"Do you want genuine clarity as to how to become master of your life and captain of your soul? Ryall and Moss offer more than a guided tour of Aristotle's philosophy to achieve this needed clarity. They transition Aristotle's timeless wisdom to contemporary life with chapter-by-chapter insights that are no less than a gift to readers of this book."
- Bartley J. Madden (Author, My Value Creation Journey