L.David Montague has written two books about integrity in enterprise management in government and industry. The first is entitled "Restoring Trust --The Handbook of Integral Management". Written two years before the "dot com" implosion and the Enron scandal, Restoring Trust foresaw today’s crisis of mistrust in American business. 

In Restoring Trust,  Mr. Montague focuses on the effective management of enterprises and  projects of all shapes and sizes in today's rapidly changing  environment. Building on more than 40 years of high integrity management success,  he sets the stage, examining many management issues and pitfalls, the  forces at work and their ramifications over the last 20 years.

Restoring Trust builds a foundation of key principles, from the perspective of all the  stakeholders in an enterprise of any size, offering specific remedies  and management methods proven successful in establishing and maintaining  credibility at all levels in the business environment. He calls this  approach to enterprise and project leadership "Integral Management". That is bringing all the elements of  managing together and performing them with uncompromising integrity.  Management is about the relationships among people-- more specifically  the stakeholders of the enterprise -- all of them. Integrity is largely about mutual respect. Most people like to  work in an environment where they know what is expected and what to  expect of their leaders and coworkers. They will take more initiative,  and outperform other groups by far. What is it that makes this happen?  It is mutual respect, pride....and trust. 

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The book offers several unique features:

• Insight into the real world roles and relationships of successful project and enterprise management teams
• A road map to recognize and navigate through pitfalls of project and organization management
• A handbook "hands on" approach to achieving an environment of integrity and trust in all facets of enterprise activity and management.
• Comprehensive presentation of proven methods with examples of their use in successful enterprises
• Examination of model organizational alternatives and behavior that can help or hinder success.

The second Book co-authored with VADM Ret. Kenneth C. Malley is entitled "Getting It RIGHT! Adventures in Defense System Acquisition and Management--Polaris to Trident: Apollo to Missile Defense".  This book examines and compares the history of four major defense acquisitions.

• The US Navy Fleet Ballistic Missile System history (featured as one of the most successful series of programs in DoD history)
• The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program
• The Missile Defense Agency Ground Based Ballistic Missile Defense history
• The Aegis Fleet Air and Missile Defense System

These programs are discussed with their successes and problems, and compared in cost with the manned space program leading up to the Apollo moon landing is summarized for comparison