“The real voyage of discovery comes not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”. Marcel Proust


Interesting Reads on Strategy – Modern:

• Free, Perfect and Now: Connecting the Three Insatiable Customer Demands, a CEO’s True Story – Rob Rodin & Curtis Hartman
• Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies – Nikos Mourkogiannis
• Small Giants: Companies that Chose to Be Great Instead of Good – Bo Burlingham
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space & Make the Competition Irrelevant – W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
• The Meaning of the 21st Century – James Martin
• The Second World: Empires & Influence in the New Global Order – Parag Khanna
• Can you say what your strategy is – HBR April 2008 – David J. Collis, Michael G. Rukstad
• Putting Leadership Back into Strategy – HBR January 2008 – Cynthia A. Montgomery
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organisation - Peter M. Senge
• Leadership & the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World - Margaret J. Wheatley
• How the Mighty Fall- Jim Collins
• Strategic Intuition- William Duggan
• The Future Arrived Yesterday- Michael Malone
• Conflict of Visions- Thomas Sowell
• The Long Tail- Chris Anderson
• No Size Fits All- Tom Hayes & Michael S. Malone
  

• The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning – Henry Mintzberg
• Future Shock – Alvin Toffler
• In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies – Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman
• Are Your Strategic Stars Aligned? – HBR February 2001 - Mary Jo Hatch, Majken Schultz
• The Tipping Point: How Small Things can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell

• The World is Flat: A Brief History on the 21st Century – Thomas L. Friedman
• The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy – David M. Smick
• Hot, Flat & Crowded – Why we Need a Green Revolution – And How it Can Renew America – Thomas L. Friedman
• China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation – James Kynge
• The Elephant & the Dragon: The Rise of India & China and What it Means for All of Us – Robyn Meredith
• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze – Peter Hessler
• After the Party: How the ANC Betrayed South Africa – Andrew Feinstein
• Barack Obama – The Audacity of Hope – Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
• Africa Rising- Vijay Mahajan
  

• Mind the Gap – Graeme Codrington & Sue Grant-Marshall
• Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace – Ricardo Semlar
• Seven Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works – Ricardo Semlar
• Nuts! Southwest Airlines’ Crazy recipe for Business and Personal Success – Kevin Freiberg & Jackie Freiberg
• The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t – Robert I. Sutton
• Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing & Succeeding Under Any Conditions – John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, Peter Mueller, Spenser Johnson
• Funky Business: Talent Makes Capital Dance – Jonas Ridderstrale & Kjell Nordstrom
• 5 Minds for the Future – Howard Gardner
• Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane – Oliver James
• The Search: How Google and its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business & Transformed our Culture – John Battelle
• Tribes- Seth Godin
• The Wisdom of Crowds- James Surowiecki
  

• Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership – Joseph Jaworski
• Presence: Human Purpose & the Field of the Future – Peter Senge, Joseph Jaworski, C. Otto Scharmer & Betty Sue Flowers
• The Art of Possibility: Transforming Profession and Personal Life – Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
• The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Sir Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
• Predictably Irrational- Don Ariely
• Heroic Leadership- Chris Lowney
• Adaptive Leadership- Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashaw & Marty Linsky