The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy. Harvard Business School Press, 1989.
In 1989, The Age of Unreason was named one of the ten best business books of the year. The ideas about change that Handy presented then are still valid today. He is a systems-thinker who defines and illustrates the interrelationships of all of life -- work, organizations, schools, voluntary organizations, stages of life, and religion.

I Am Right --You Are Wrong: From This to the New Renaissance: From Rock Logic to Water Logic by Edward de Bono. Penguin Books, 1992.
This book is one in a series by de Bono. It offers tools for thinking outside the rigid categories and adversarial thinking ("rock logic"). The author suggests that the energy for moving into the future will come from the "water logic" of perception.

Information Anxiety: What to Do When Information Doesn't Tell You What You Need to Know by Richard Saul Wurman. Bantam Books, 1989. (Out of Print. Check your local library.)
Wurman presents three principles and hundreds of shortcuts to use in handing the massive amount of information we receive every day. His ideas can help us analyze the facts and come to real understanding.

Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations by Thomas A Stewart. Doubleday, 1997.
Intellectual capital is becoming the primary source of wealth in the world. It resides in people, not the land or the machinery. In this new information age, being able to share knowledge is one of the biggest challenges. Stewart's book gives a readable introduction to the possibilities and challenges before us.

The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 by Alfred W. Crosby. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
By providing an understanding of how changes in Western Europe laid the groundwork for the Industrial Age, this book helps the reader understand the recent past and perhaps gain skills to help in understanding the incoming age.

The Path of Least Resistance: Principles for Creating What You Want to Create by Robert Fritz. Stillpoint Publishing Company, 1984.
Understanding structural dynamics helps one shift from a reactive-responsive stance in the world to a creative one -- which makes it possible to change both processes and outcomes.

Playing the Future: How Kids' Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive in an Age of Chaos by Douglas Rushkoff. HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
Instead of bemoaning technology, TV, and video games, Rushkoff suggests we should learn from children how to use these tools effectively to build knowledge for the future.

Postmoderns: The Beliefs, Hopes, and Fears of Young Americans (1965-1981), by Craig Miller. Discipleship Resources, 1996 (Order online at http://www.discipleshipresources.org)
Miller outlines how the 62 million Americans who are 16-32 years old in 1997 have been shaped by nine critical culture-shifts. This is the first generation to live in the postmodern world; their experiences are different from those who began life in the modern world.

The Postmodern Organization: Mastering the Art of Irreversible Change by William Bergquist. Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993.
While Miller (above) focuses on the people of the postmodern world, Bergquist focuses on organizations. He presents five challenges to postmodern organizations and suggests three organizational models to meet those challenges.

Sacred Eyes by L. Robert Keck. Synergy Associates (P.O. Box 4589, Boulder, CO 80306)
Keck presents "an invitation to view the entire human journey and your own life with sacred eyes." His thesis is that humankind is at the brink of a major transformation -- with spiritual evolution as the primary developmental agenda.

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