The Patron Saint of Business Management: A new management style from a wise monk

Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
The Life of Saint Benedict......Page 12
History of the Benedictine Order......Page 16
Asceticism and Monasticism......Page 24
Rule 1 Of the Kinds of Life of Monks......Page 28
Rule 2 What Kind of Man the Abbot Ought to Be......Page 32
Rule 3 Of Calling the Brethren to Counsel......Page 40
Rule 4 Of Obedience......Page 44
Rule 5 Of Silence......Page 48
Rule 6 Of Humility......Page 52
Rule 7 Of the Divine Office During the Night......Page 66
Rule 8 How the Divine Office Is to Be Said During the Summer Season......Page 68
Rule 9 Of Reverence at Prayer......Page 70
Rule 10 Of the Deans of the Monastery......Page 72
Rule 11 Of Excommunication for Faults......Page 74
Rule 12 How Concerned the Abbot Should Be About the Excommunicated......Page 78
Rule 13 Of Those Who Having Often Been Corrected Do Not Amend......Page 80
Rule 14 Whether Brethren Who Leave the Monastery Ought to Be Received Again......Page 82
Rule 15 How Young Boys Are to Be Corrected......Page 84
Rule 16 and 38 Cellarers and Priors—Assistants......Page 86
Rule 17 Of the Tools and Goods of the Monastery......Page 92
Rule 18 Whether Monks Ought to Have Anything of Their Own......Page 94
Rule 19 Whether All Should Receive in Equal Measure What Is Necessary......Page 96
Rule 20 Of the Weekly Servers in the Kitchen......Page 98
Rule 21 Of the Sick Brethren......Page 102
Rule 22 Of the Aged and Children......Page 106
Rule 23 At What Times the Brethren Should Take Their Reflection......Page 108
Rule 24 Of Those Who Are Tardy......Page 110
Rule 25 Of Those Who Fail in Any Other Matters......Page 114
Rule 26 Of the Daily Work......Page 116
Rule 27 Of Brethren Who Work a Long Distance from the Oratory Or Are on a Journey......Page 122
Rule 28 Travelling and Returning the Same Day......Page 124
Rule 29 Of the Reception of Guests......Page 126
Rule 30 Monks Receiving Letters or Anything Else......Page 130
Rule 31 Clothing and Footgear of the Brethren......Page 132
Rule 32 Manner of Admitting Brethren......Page 136
Rule 33 Of Priests Who May Wish to Live in the Monastery......Page 142
Rule 34 How Stranger Monks Are to Be Received......Page 144
Rule 35 Of the Order of the Monastery......Page 148
Rule 36 Of the Election of the Abbot......Page 154
Rule 38 Of the Porter of the Monastery......Page 160
Rule 39 Brethren Sent on a Vacation......Page 164
Rule 40 If Commanded to Do Impossible Things......Page 168
Rule 41 Defending One Another......Page 170
Rule 42 That Brethren Be Obedient to One Another......Page 172
Rule 43 Of This, That Not the Whole Observance of Righteousness Is Laid Down in This Rule......Page 176