What do futurist’s read? Check out the books that top our member’s “must read” list.
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Top Ten Strategic Planning Books |
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Written by Andy Hines
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Futurists Recommend Strategic Planning Books for 2007
More Nimble Strategic Planning Approach is Enjoying Resurgence of Interest HOUSTON – Just in time for the New Year, The Association of Professional Futurists (APF) today announced its Top Ten List of Strategic Planning Books for businesses, organizations and individuals looking to apply some strategy to their planning efforts in 2007 and beyond. “What better time of year to rethink our approach to planning for the future and add some expert strategy to the effort,” says Andy Hines, APF board member and Senior Director of Consulting at Social Technologies, a leading foresight consultancy.
The APF is a global community of practicing futurists who use an interdisciplinary approach to explore a range of plausible futures in order to more effectively prepare clients and organizations for what lies ahead. Hines, also Adjunct Professor in the Futures program at the University of Houston, recently polled APF members on their favorite strategic planning texts and synthesized their recommendations into a list that he plans to distribute to graduate students enrolled in the Futures program this Spring. “While not as trendy as it was during the 1980s, ‘a slimmed down, more nimble approach to strategic planning’ is enjoying a resurgence of interest,” says Hines.
APF 2007 Top Ten Strategic Planning Books
- The Strategy of Indirect Approach, by Basil Lidell-Hart, 1954; (an influential military text)
- Strategic Planning: What Every Manager Must Know, by George Steiner, 1979, 1997; (considered by many to be
the standard text in the field)
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, by Michael Porter, 1980; (includes a Five Forces model which is considered a starting point for strategic analysis)
- Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement, 3rd Edition, by John M. Bryson, 1995. (used by the University of Houston Futures program; companion workbook also available)
- Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour through the Wilds of Strategic Management, by Henry Mintzburg,1998; (outlines the major schools of strategic thinking)
- The Sixth Sense, by Kees Van der Heijden, 2002. (useful in linking strategy to foresight)
- Seeing What's Next, by Clay Christensen, 2004. (applying ideas of Innovator's Dilemma to forecasting industry evolution)
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, by Renee Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim, 2005; (emphasizes capturing and creating new demand rather than focusing on battling existing competitors in the existing spaces)
- Simplified Strategic Planning: A No-Nonsense Guide for Busy People Who Want Results Fast! by Robert W. Bradford and J. Peter Duncan, 2000. (used by Regent U's Strategic Foresight Master's program)
- Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage, by Jay Barney and William Hesterly, 2005. (includes useful case study examples)
Special thanks to APF members Stephen Aguilar-Milan, Lawrence Bonney, Jim Burke, Christian Crews, Jay Gary, Mike Jackson, Herb Rubenstein, and Lloyd Walker for their contributions.
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Changing Minds |
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Written by Cindy Frewen-Wuellner
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 Chaning Minds
Important study on cognition - how people change their minds from outside persuasion, in seven scales from individual to national, homogeneous and heterogeneous groups.
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Counterculture Through the Ages |
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Written by Michele Bowman
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 Counterculture Through the Ages
It’s been a long time since a history book has kept me reading late into the night! A work of historical scholarship cleverly disguised in a colorful and irreverent narrative, Goffman offers insights into the personalities and perspectives that have produced some of the most influential countercultures in society.
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The Wisdom of Crowds |
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Written by Lisa Bodell
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 The Wisdom of Crowds
New Yorker business columnist JamesSurowiecki argues that "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them," in his book, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
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Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire |
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Written by Lee Shupp
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 Blowback
In his book, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, published pre-911, Chalmers Johnson, an authority on Japan and its economy, connects the dots between American policies and numerous "blowbacks" experienced in the recent past. It serves as a wake up call for America.
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Radical Evolution |
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Written by Mark Justman
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 Radical Evolution
Garreau takes readers on a cross-country trip into the future as he interviews scientists and other thinkers grappling with the implications of our newfound—and, to some, frightening - knowledge of the genome.
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Written by Michele Bowman
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Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology |
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Written by Lisa Bodell
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 Our Own Devices
Princeton scholar Edward Tenner, author of Why Things Bite Back and now Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology traces the interaction between the human body and technology, and how the tools we make change and affect us.
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The Causal Layered Analysis Reader |
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Written by Cindy Frewen-Wuellner
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 The Causal Layered Analysis Reader
CLA is a very sophisticated way to categorize different views of and concerns about the futures, and then to use them to help groups think about the futures far more effectively than they could by using any one of the layers alone, as most theory/methods do.
- James Dator, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii
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Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence |
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Written by Michele Bowman
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 Inevitable Surprises
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Hiding the Elephant |
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Written by Lisa Bodell
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 Hiding the Elephant
This book is about magicians, their trade, and our connection to magic and illusion and makes for a fascinating read.
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