Jianying Zha: Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China
Get into the heads of entrepreneurs and academics shaping China's future. (***)
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom: China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
Nearly three millenia dealt with in biteable chunks. Better on history than the future. Essential background for those wanting to understand today's China. (***)
David Taylor: Never Mind the Sizzle...Where's the Sausage?: Branding Based on Substance Not Spin
Chris Middleton and Tim Drake: You Can Be As Young As You Think
Of course, I'm going to say this is a must read, aren't I? (*****)
Charles Leadbeater: We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity
I wish I'd written this. Brilliant expose of the Web 2.0 revolution and what it means for collaboration and innovation (*****)
James Martin: The Meaning of the 21st Century: a Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future
Deeply researched and deeply significant. How science and technology can save us - or ruin us (****)
James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century
Are we sleepwalking into our future? A wake up call to prevent our worst nightmares (****)
Thomas Friedman: The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century
An amazing tour de force of how our globalised world evolved in recent times (****)
Gary Hamel: Competing for the Future
Another book I'd love to have written. The Bible. Shows how to combine the art of futuring with the science of business (*****)
