Below are the names of the texts that are used in the APEX courses.

If you are a Great Hearts employee, check with your office manager or Director of Campus Operations–all campuses should have been provided with copies of the texts. Participants are responsible for purchasing their own texts.

• Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
• Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture
• Daniel Pink’s Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Todd Whitaker’s Dealing with Difficult Parents
• Plutarch’s “To an Uneducated Leader”
• Patrick Lencioni’s The Ideal Team Player
• Geoff Smart’s and Randy Street’s WHO
• Donald Cowan’s Unbinding Prometheus: Education for the Coming Age
• Donald Cowan’s and Louise Cowan’s Classic Texts and the Nature of Authority
• Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive
• William Ellet’s The Case Study Handbook
• James Arthur’s Teaching Character and Virtue in Schools
  
• William Bridges’ and Susan Bridges’ Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
• Max De Pree’s Leadership Is an Art
• Robyn Jackson’s Never Underestimate Your Teachers
• Michael Bungay Stanger’s The Coaching Habit
• Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith’s A Thomas More Source Book
• Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changes the World