Recommended+Readings


 * Statements in quotes are from reviews posted on Amazon.com**

[|America’s Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nations Future] – downloadable PDF

[|Answering the Challenge of a Changing World: Strengthening Education for the 21st Century] – downloadable PDF.

[|Are They Really Ready to Work? Employers Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century U.S. Workforce]- downloadable PDF

Digital Transformation - A Framework for ICT Literacy - downloadable PDF

[|EDge: Education in the Flat World] – downloadable PDF

[|Education for Global Leadership – The Importance of International Studies and Foreign Language Education for U.S. Economic and National Security] – downloadable PDF

[|**Future Search**] by Marvin Ross Weisbord and Sandra Janoff. “…recognized experts simply talk about their work-what they do, why they do it the way they do, how their work has changed over the years, where their boundaries are-it's amazing….”

[|**Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't**] by Jim Collins. “…Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest technology, innovative change management, or even a fine-tuned business strategy. At the heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner….”

[|Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Effectiveness] – downloadable PDF.

[|**Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die**] by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. “…an entertaining, practical guide to effective communication. Drawing extensively on psychosocial studies on memory, emotion and motivation, their study is couched in terms of "stickiness"—that is, the art of making ideas unforgettable….”

[|**Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change**] by William Bridges. “…Bridges provides a clear understanding of what change does to employees and what employees in transition can do to an organization….”

[|Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future] – book can be read online for free [|Tapping America’s Potential – The Education for Innovation Initiative] – downloadable PDF

[|**The Big Moo : Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable**] by The Group of 33 and Seth Godin. “…set in an adult business context of constant "change" and cutthroat price competition, where "winning the game has absolutely nothing to do with hard work and paying your dues" and "a constant stream of industry-busting insights and remarkable innovations" is the only guarantee of survival….”

[|**The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More**] by Chris Anderson. “…Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the search for blockbusters….”

[|**The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference**] by Malcolm Gladwell. “…little changes can have big effects; when small numbers of people start behaving differently, that behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world…..”

[|**The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century**] by Thomas L. Friedman. “…What Friedman means by "flat" is "connected": the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution that have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet….”

[|**Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce**] The report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century.

[|**Unleashing the Ideavirus**] by Seth Godin. “…If you want to know what a successful ideavirus must have, how to find the target audience, or how to get influencers (sneezers) to talk about your product.…”

Windows on the Future: Being InfoSavvy in the Information Age by Ian Jukes - downloadable PDF