Here are some recommended additions to your library and useful subscriptions.

Diamond, J. (2005). Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. New York: W.W. Norton.

Drucker, P.F. (2001). The essential Drucker. New York: HarperCollins.

Friedman, T.L. (2005). The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Gladwell, M. (2000). The tipping point: How little things can make a big difference. New York: Little, Brown.

Johansen, B. (2007). Get there early: Sensing the future to compete in the present. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler.

Norman, D.A. (2002). The design of everyday things. New York: Basic Books.

Pershing, J.A. (Ed.). (2006). Handbook of human performance technology (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pfeiffer.

Peters, T. (2003). Re-imagine! Business excellence in a disruptive age. London: Dorling Kindersely.

Pfeffer, J., & Sutton, R.I. (2006). Hard facts dangerous half-truths and total nonsense: Profiting from evidence-based management. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Pink, D.H. (2005). A whole new mind: Moving form the information age to the conceptual age. New York: Riverhead Books.

Roam, D. (2008). The back of the napkin: Solving problems and selling ideas with pictures. New York: Penguin.

Schwartz, P. (1991). The art of the long view: Planning for the future in an uncertain world. New York: Currency Doubleday.

Tufte, E.R. (1990). Envisioning information. Los Angeles: Graphic Press.

Tufte, E.R. (2001). The visual display of quantitative information (2nd ed.). Los Angeles: Graphic Press.

Ulrich, D. (1997). Human resource champions. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. Wurman, R.S. (1989). Information anxiety. New York: Doubleday.

Wurman, R.S. (1997). Information architects. New York: Watson-Guptill Publishers.

Zakaria, F. (2006). The post-American world. New York: W.W. Norton.