On this page I present books that our especially worthwhile for the issues discussed on this website. This does not mean that I agree with everything in those books, but that I regard them as providing us with valuable ideas and information. Of course, I welcome any suggestions you may have.

Business

Collins, Jim, Good to Great - why some companies make the leap . . . and others don't, Sydney, 2001

Business Ethics

Crane, Andrew, Matten, Dirk, Business Ethics - A European Perspective, Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization, Oxford, 2003

Solomon, Robert C., Ethics and Excellence - cooperation and integrity in business, New York/ Oxford, 1992

Consulting

Block, Peter, Flawless Consulting - A guide to getting your experience used, San Diego (1981)

Block, Peter, The answer to how is yes - acting on what matters, San Francisco (2002)

Critical Thinking

Chaffee, John, Thinking Critically, Boston/ New York, 2000

Hampden-Turner, Charles, Maps of the Mind - Charts and Concepts of the Mind and its Labyrinths, London, 1981

Culture

Fukuyama, Francis, Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity, London, 1995

Trompenaars, Fons, Hampden-Turner, Charles, Building Cross-Cultural Competence - how to Create Wealth from Conflicting Values, New Haven/ London, 2000

Dialogue

Bohm, David, On Dialogue, London, 1996

Csikkszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Good Business - Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning, London, 2003

Freeman, R. Edward, Strategic Management - A Stakeholder Approach, Cambridge, 1983

Isaacs, William, Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together - A pioneering approach to communicating in business and in life, New York, 1999

Jacobs, Jane, Systems of Survival - A dialogue on the moral foundations of commerce and politics, London, 1992

Krishnamurti, J., Bohm, David, The Ending of Time, New York, 1985

Maranhao, Tullio, Therapeutic Discourse and Socratic Dialogue, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987

Seeskin, Kenneth, Dialogue and Discovery - A Study in Socratic Method, Albany, 1987

Vlastos, Gregory, Socratic Studies, Cambridge, 1994

Ethics

MacIntyre, Alasdair, Dependent Rational Animals - why human beings need the v irtues, London, 1999

Singer, Peter, How are we to live? - ethics in an age of self-interest, New York, 1995 

Taylor, Charles, The Ethics of Authenticity, Cambridge (Mass)/London, 1991

International Corporate Social Responsibility

DeGeorge, Richard T, Competing with Integrity in International Business, New York/Oxford, 1993

Donaldson, Thomas, The Ethics of International Business, New York/ Oxford, 1989

Nussbaum, Martha C., Sen, Amartya, The Quakity of Life, Oxford, 1993

Prahalad, C.K., The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: eradicating poverty through profits, San Francisco, 2004

Knowledge

Goldman, Alvin I., Knowledge in a Social World, Oxford, 2000

Moser, Paul K., Mulder, Dwayne H., Trout, J.D., The Theory of Knowledge - A thematic introduction, New York/ Oxford, 1998 

Williamson, Timothy, Knowledge and its Limits, Oxford, 2000

Knowledge management

Nonaka, Ikujiro, Takeuchi, Hirotaka, The Knowledge Creating Company - How Japanse companies create the dynamics of innovation, New York/ Oxford, 1995

Krogh, Georg von, Ichuo, Kazuo, Nonaka, Ikujiro, Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation, Oxford/ New York, 2000

Leadership

Kets de Vries, Manfred, Engellau, Elisabet, Are leaders born or are they made? The case of Alexander the Great, London, 2004

Organizational Learning

Flood, Robert Louis, Rethinking The Fifth Discipline - Learning within the unknowable, London/ New York, 1999

Senge, Peter, The Fifth Discipline - the art and practice of the learning organization, New York, 1990

Sustainability

Elkington, John, Cannibals with Forks - the triple bottom line of 21st century business, Oxford, 1997