See my longer review. CEOs, if they have time for only two books, should read this one and the one by Howard Gardner. Best possible Christmas gift (with "Five Minds") for the CEO who has too much money and too little time. These two books will kick him/her in the head (in a nice way).

Dee Hock is the single best example of a decent businessman who achieved great profit while doing good. He gets it.

Although he has more recent books, this classic is one of the five or so truly great books on how and why CEOs must undertake, and demand that their managers undertake, lifelong learning. CEOs today are largely clueless about the ten high-level threats to mankind, the twelve policies that governments are screwing up, and the eight challengers where this century's marketplaces will explode.

Along with the Fifty Year Wound, makes the compelling case that we cannot kill five billion people. Like the rich in New York in the 1920's, we either help them climb safely out of the slums or we and our future generations will die of their virrulent diseases.

One of three books with this title.

Very serious book, not recommended for managers, who should simply read my review of the book, but ideal for Chief Technology or Chief Information Officers who want to re-think the entire corporate process.

This is the book that persuaded me to sell my for-profit (OSS.Net, Inc.), start a non-profit (Earth Intelligence Network), and spend the rest of my life as intelligence officer for the poor, also helping those enterprises that wish to profit within the four trillion that the five billion poor represent while also going green and doing good.

I have been astonished at the ease with which governments and corporations have been able to ignore this message which started in the 1970's with Limits to Growth. Now is the time for every CEO to get a grip on reality and build for a long-term sustainable profit.

I have known Alvin Toffler since 1992 when he interviewed me for his chapter on "The Future of the Spy" in War and Anti-War, and all of the books by Alvin and Heidi comprise a collection of such value that I recommend all of their books to any CEO, but particularly this one and PowerShift.

Helpful complement to the Paul Hawkin and Herman Daly books, easier for a CEO to start with this one.

Herman Daly is a Noble-level economist who pioneered the discipline of ecological economics. I know him personally and regard him as the top academic practitioner in this field.

Sales Era 3: serve as source of business advantage, be a strategist, nurture the missing decision process and cast of characters within the customer's enterprise, and be ready to implement, measure, and report results Complex sales involve: 1) Large investments; 2) Long ycles; 3) Multiple decisions at multiple levels in client organization Pension fund and asset managers, this one is for you.

Howard Bloom, who anticipated the Sunni-Shi'ite world war led by Iran versus Saudi Arabia, is at the intersection of group IQ as represented by bacteria and collective intelligence, and why global coverage--what I call all information in all languages all the time--matters.

The title alone tells the story. I would fail most CEOs because they are surrounded by people who are not equipped to see wild cards, game changers, character and corporate flaws, etcetera. Most businesses are successful in part because the public has been ignorant and thus not opposing the "true cost" of predatory immoral capitalism. No more.

This is the single best mind I have encountered, along with Paul Strassman's, with respect to the measurement--the metrics--and the process--the steps--that can be taken to evaluate and then stimulate an organization's Information Proficieny.

Babette Bensoussan is one of a handful of truly world-class practitioners that have set the stage for an explosion in commercial intelligence (decision support that is legal, ethical, and priceless--I like to say that information costs money, intelligence makes money)--most "business intelligence" is nothing more than internal data mining with cute dashboards that are not sense-makers.

Classic Comic Book version of the collective intelligence books above and many others I do not list here, worth a quick read, but not favored because it fails to give credit to thousands of others whose ideas are summarized in this book. Well-intentioned, needs to be completely redone.