Business

Fleming, Robben W. Tempests into Rainbows : Managing Turbulence. Univ of Michigan Press, March 1996.

Robben was my mentor during a Kellogg Foundation Fellowship Program some years ago. He is noted for bringing peace to the Michigan State campus during the Vietnamese war, as well as a lifetime of good work as a labor mediator.

Peters, Tom. The Circle of Innovation : You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness. Knopf, 1997.

From one of America's most respected business thinkers comes a practical handbook for turning any organization into a perpetual innovation machine--the one thing that it must be if it is to compete in the permanently chaotic new world of global business.

Check out the online edition.

Do Lunch or Be Lunch : The Virtue of Predictability in a World of Corporate Chaos by Howard H. Stevenson, Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Michael C. Moldoveanu. McGraw-Hill, September 1, 1997.

The Death of Distance : How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives by Frances Cairncross. McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1997.

Treacy, Michael and Wiersema, Fred. The Discipline of Market Leaders : Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market .  Addison-Wesley, 1997.