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This list is intended to provide you with information about books which are easy to read, but also are based on solid academic foundations.

For process improvement, organizational structure, and organizational theory:

Improving performance : How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart, by Geary Rummler and Alan Brache, 1995, Jossey-Bass.

For learning as the critical managerial skill, lifelong learning, and learning about learning:

Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water, by Peter B. Vaill, 1996, Jossey-Bass.

For a fresh look at organizations, the critical importance of perspective, and an understanding of organizational symbolism and politics:

Reframing Organizations, by Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal, 1997 (2nd edition), Jossey-Bass.

For change methodologies, large-scale change, and leadership:

Leading Change, by John Kotter, 1996, Harvard Business School Press.

For chaos theory, self-organization, a fresh look at organizational change:

Coping with uncertainty : Insights from the New Sciences of Chaos, Self-organization, and Complexity, by Uri Merry, 1995, Praeger Press.

A Simpler Way, by Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers, 1996, Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

For a philosophical and psychological overview of thought underlying science and practice:

A Brief History of Everything, by Ken Wilber, 1996, Shambhala Press.

For a historical review of major change initiatives beginning about 1950:

The Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws, and the Forerunners of Corporate Change, by Art Kleiner, 1996, Currency Doubleday.

For a view of intelligence which isn't solely analytical:

Emotional intelligence, by Daniel Goleman, 1995, Bantam Books.