Great post Mike!

Another inspiring, practical, and recently written book is Seth Godin's "Tribes."
Love Godin's books as he offers great anecdotes and insights into how you can push the envelope a little further and generate more momentum for your ideas.

Here's the editorial review from Publisher's Weekly:

Short on pages but long on repetition, this newest book by Godin (Purple Cow) argues that lasting and substantive change can be best effected by a tribe: a group of people connected to each other, to a leader and to an idea. Smart innovators find or assemble a movement of similarly minded individuals and get the tribe excited by a new product, service or message, often via the Internet (consider, for example, the popularity of the Obama campaign, Facebook or Twitter). Tribes, Godin says, can be within or outside a corporation, and almost everyone can be a leader; most are kept from realizing their potential by fear of criticism and fear of being wrong. The book's helpful nuggets are buried beneath esoteric case studies and multiple reiterations: we can be leaders if we want, tribes are the way of the future and change is good. On that last note, the advice found in this book should be used with caution. Change isn't made by asking permission, Godin says. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later. That may be true, but in this economy and in certain corporations, it may also be a good way to lose a job.

Here's the link to the book on Amazon -- http://bit.ly/QT77

Nice, Adam. Godin is always a good choice.

Mike, thank you for these wonderful reading suggestions. Might I also suggest "The Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World" by Wilford Welch and Foreword by Desmond Tutu?

It is filled with 27 stories of social entrepreneurs from around the world who inspire readers to move from concern to passion to action in tackling social and environmental issues. They include Paul Farmer, Van Jones, Lynne and Bill Twist, Rodrigo Baggio, Jessica Flannery, and many other Ashoka and Skoll Foundation winners!

The website is http://www.tacticsofhope.org

Please let me know if you have heard of it before!

Thanks! I had not heard of it, but it sounds great. Thanks for sharing.

Please take a look the Social Enterprise Bookstore for some additional suggestions: http://www.se-alliance.org/resources_bookstore.cfm

Thanks, Paulina. Great resource.

Interesting selection! but could you suggest anything more recent? Any criticism of Prahalad?

Thanks, Vladimir. Dealing with Darwin was published in 2006 and Competing on Analytics is from 2007, so there are a couple of more recent titles there. I don't believe I've read anything more recent that I feel is as definitive as the books on this list, but I'd welcome ideas from other readers.

As far as criticisms of Prahalad, I'm only aware of a few journal articles (fairly easy to find with a Google search) but no full-blown books that tackle the topic. Again, I'd love to hear from others.