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strategy+business Magazine Publishes Special Issue on �The Best Business Books of the Millennium(s)�

Twelve opinionated, acclaimed strategists, scholars, and writers identify and assess the most important business books in strategy, management, and their subcategories.

strategy+business magazine has published a special issue titled "The Best Business Books of the Millennium(s)," and a list of this year's and last year's 25 best business books on their website www.strategy-business.com.

The top five business books chosen for the list are 1) Good to Great by Jim Collins; 2) The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid; 3) Hidden Value by Charles A. O'Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer; 4) The Strategy-Focused Organization by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton; and 5) The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker. The list was chosen by the editors of strategy+business from 250 nominations, and were chosen for their enduring influence and value for senior executives and key decision-makers.

"strategy+business has always looked ahead to identify the ideas that drive business," says Randall Rothenberg, Editor-in-Chief of strategy+business media. But some ideas come and go and others are 'Built to Last.' The best selling books can easily be found on bestseller lists, but how can business leaders identify books with enduring influence and value? This special issue introduces our readers to books with ideas that have stood the test of time and continue to shape the present and future."

The "Best Books of the Millennium" special issue of strategy+business magazine finally gives books due credit as one of the most influential forces behind innovation, strategy, and management throughout the decades. Looking beyond the business bestseller lists and into the minds of today's most celebrated and influential thinkers, strategy+business will lead its 100,000 readers in a vital conversation about notable books -- contemporary and classic -- and in the exchange of ideas - the best ideas in business.

About strategy+business
Founded in 1995 as a quarterly magazine dedicated to "The Best Ideas in Business," strategy+business is an award-winning thought leadership publication for the Chief Executive Officers of Fortune 1000 companies - and the people who influence them. Like its readers, it recognizes that in a world where creativity has replaced fixed assets as the primary generator of corporate growth, ideas are the most potent competitive weapons. "Our goal," says Editor-in-Chief Randall Rothenberg, "is to be the premier publication for and about ideas in global business - to bridge the gap between theory and practice for CEOs and the people who influence them." It is the only magazine in its field that combines strategic insights from the world's leading consultants and scholars with reports on business innovation from top business and financial journalists. It has a circulation of 100,000 readers, major national advertisers, and is available at newsstands nationwide.

About Randall Rothenberg and the other contributors
Randall Rothenberg, Editor-in-Chief of strategy+business media, which includes strategy+business, the award-winning quarterly business magazine, and other business publications aimed at top business executives. Mr. Rothenberg is also an editor-at-large and media/marketing columnist for Advertising Age magazine. Prior to joining strategy+business, Mr. Rothenberg was a contributing editor of Wired, where he assigned and wrote pieces about technology, science, communications and culture, and specialized in corporate convergence strategies.

Previously, Mr. Rothenberg held senior editorial positions at leading publications, including senior writer, columnist, and editorial director of Esquire and senior consulting editor at Bloomberg Business News in London. He has contributed articles to The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Metropolis, The Nation, The New Leader, Inc., Cond� Nast Traveler, Diversion, GQ, and New York Magazine.

Mr. Rothenberg is the author of Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story, The Neoliberals: Creating The New American Politics, and co-author with Alan F. Westin and Albert Robbins, of Getting Angry Six Times a Week: A Portfolio of Political Cartoons.

David S. Bennahum ("Internet") is a partner at New Things, LLC., a New York-based venture-capital group that finances mobile telecommunications infrastructure and software. He is the author of Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace, a contributing editor to Wired magazine, and a contributor to strategy+business.

Charles Hampden-Turner ("Global Management") is one of the world's most prominent thinkers on cultural diversity and is a partner, with Fons Trompenaars, of the corporate consulting firm Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. Their two most recent books, Building Cross Cultural Competence: How to Create Wealth from Conflicting Values, and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century: How Innovative Leaders Manage in the Digital Age, attempt to unravel globalization issues.

Charles Handy ("Beyond Business") is the author of many books on the changing shape of work, life, and organizations, including The Age of Unreason and The Age of Paradox. A former Shell International marketing executive, economist, and management educator, Mr. Handy helped to start the London Business School. Randall Rothenberg

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David Hurst ("Strategy") is a regular contributor to strategy+business, and has written for the Financial Times, the Harvard Business Review, the Strategic Management Journal, and other publications. His book Crisis & Renewal was selected by Business Journal as one of the 10 best books of 1995-1996. He is currently writing a book on golf and management that will be published in 2002.

Kate Jennings ("Business Novels") is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Snake, an award winning collection of short stories, two books of essays, and two of poetry. Her new novel, Moral Hazard, based loosely on her experience as a speechwriter on Wall Street in the nineties, is scheduled for publication early next year. She has written for numerous publications, including The New York TimesBook Review.

Edward E. Lawler III and Jay A. Conger ("Corporate Governance") . Edward E. Lawler III is the director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and professor of management and organization in the Marshall School of Business. Dr. Lawler specializes in the study of human resources management, compensation, and organizational development. Jay A. Conger is a professor of organizational behavior at the London Business School and a research scientist at the University of Southern California's Center for Effective Organizations.

Charles E. Lucier and Jan Dyer ("Knowledge") . Charles Lucier is a senior vice president and the chief growth officer for Booz Allen Hamilton. His client work focuses on strategy and knowledge issues for consumer products and health companies. Jan Dyer spent the last 11 years at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she served as the firm's director of intellectual capital. She specializes in the strategic application of knowledge and learning. Dr. Lucier and Ms. Dyer write a regular column for strategy+business called "Breakthrough Thoughts."

James O'Toole ("CEO Memoirs") is Research Professor in the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California . Dr. O'Toole has written 13 books, among them Vanguard Management and Leadership A to Z: A Guide for the Appropriately Ambitious.

Bruce A. Pasternak ("Leadership") is a senior vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton, San Francisco. He is the author, with Albert J. Viscio, of The Centerless Corporation: A New Model for Transforming Your Organization for Growth and Profit.

Louis Uchitelle ("Economic History") has covered economics for The New York Times since 1987. He has written on a wide range of economic issues, with emphasis on national trends, business and labor, technology and productivity, and Federal Reserve policy. He has taught journalism at Columbia University.

The Best Business Books of the Millennium(s)
It takes only one powerful idea to change your life, bring light into darkness, and - most importantly to strategy+business readers - breathe new life into your organization. As long as printed words have been bound by covers, books have been a source of fresh thinking that regularly and impressively inspires business leaders to build leading businesses. Whatever physical form books take in the future, their power will remain paramount.

Still, finding the big ideas isn't easy, especially in a business-book market that has seen roughly 10,000 new titles in the last three years, according to the New York Times. As a service to their readers, s+b invited 12 opinionated, acclaimed strategists, scholars, and writers to look beyond the best-seller lists to identify and assess the most important business books in strategy, management, and their subcategories. They also asked our contributors to explore the realms of fiction, history, economics, science, and more. Some were published in this millennium (2000 and 2001); many are from the rather important century that recently ended.

Strategy by David K. Hurst
Leadership by Bruce A. Pasternack
Global Management by Charles Hampden-Turner
Business Novels by Kate Jennings
Economic History by Louis Uchitelle
Corporate Governance by Jay A. Conger and Edward E. Lawler III
CEO Memoirs by James O'Toole
Beyond Business by Charles Handy
Knowledge by Jan Dyer and Chuck Lucier
Internet by David S. Bennahum
Best Books Index (includes books featured in all of the above articles) S+B's Top 25 Business Books for 2000 - 2001