It's one of the clearest guidelines we've ever had to what kinds of things work and what don't building long-term profitability in companies. This book is currently out of print, but it's worth the effort of trying to find a copy. This book looks at what companies with a record of long-term profitability do effectively to create and maintain that profitability. While many academics have quibbled with the quality of the scholarship here, I found the book a great way to put a number of concepts into perspective. In short, it will help you make sense of the general value differences among different generations, as well as point you toward some ideas about what's in store for the US and the world as we approach the 21 st century.
Strategic decisions are sometimes the hardest to make.
One reason for that is that most of us have never learned how to analyze historical precedents and apply them to the present. May. This book is based on the course those gentlemen teach at Harvard in the School of Government about making policy decisions. It includes several handy models that you can use for strategic planning for any kind of organization. Another book with lots packed between the covers is the Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. This includes one of the clearest introductions to systems theory that I've ever come across and the appendices alone are worth the price of the book as they outline different types of system cycles along with ways to analyze them and affect them.