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The suggested readings listed in this section usually will not include business books: you just need a quick search to find tons of books on the business side.

Instead, the suggested books, while seemingly irrelevant to the task, could actually give you a different perspective on the subject at hand.

Or- help you to "think outside the box"

Enjoy, and suggest us other material that you find inspiring. For this issue, we suggest the following:
Ron Robin, The Barbed-Wire College, Reeducating German Pows in the United States During World War II (Hardcover, 1995), Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, ISBN 0-691-03700-0
what happens when you try to implement a knowledge management policy without first assessing the participants’ existing culture
Yves Aguilar, Un art de fonctionnaires : le 1 % (1998), Editions Jacqueline Chambon, Nimes, ISBN 2-87711-185-7
In 1951, France introduced a budget provisioning to create a larger art market for contemporary artists: what happens when you try to create knowledge by law
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Original Edition (Paperback, 2005; I had the revised edition, but it is not available on Amazon), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-825054-1
Originally published in 1971, this book inspired for decades most "social engineers", and it is still one of the best studies on what motivates an agreement between free and rational persons
Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, Military Intelligence Blunders (Paperback, 2000), Robinson, London, ISBN 1-84119-067-5
When designing a knowledge retention and distribution policy, the communication processes and the actual involvement of the knowledge management infrastructure in the results are quite often overseen, sometimes hiding the knowledge under layer upon layer of interpretation
Aldo Bonomi, Il capitalismo molecolare (1997), Einaudi, ISBN 88-06-14280-1
A study on the development of new organizational structures, that result in a completely different and quite flexible approach to knowledge retention