1. Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management
   The Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management is the single most valuable book to read on KM. It is a significant collection of the leading articles that were published by the best thinkers in KM. This one book will provide you with the supporting reasons for implementing KM in your organization. It will provide you with the processes and practices for creating knowledge and managing a learning organization. Additionally, the book presents notable case studies in KM.
2. Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management
   Japan now has a business school to compete with the leading schools in the west. One of the leading thinkers in corporate strategy, Michael Porter wrote, “The Hitotsubashi Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy is a new kind of business school in Japan, shattering every convention. This book, the product of the School’s outstanding faculty, reveals the new dynamism in Japanese business thinking.” Japanese corporations have taken hold of the value in KM and this book presents the reasoning of “why” and also covers the “how.”
3. Handbook on Knowledge Management: Knowledge Matters Vol. 1
   This is the first book of the two-book set. As written in the books description, this book covers “from classic foundations to cutting-edge thought, informative to provocative, theoretical to practical, historical to futuristic, human to technological, and operational to strategic.” This is a comprehensive work for the comprehensive practitioner.
4. Handbook of Knowledge Management: Knowledge Directions Vol. 2
   This is the second book of a two-book set. As written in the books description, this book covers “from classic foundations to cutting-edge thought, informative to provocative, theoretical to practical, historical to futuristic, human to technological, and operational to strategic.” This is a comprehensive work for the comprehensive practitioner.
5. Knowledge Management
   This is the first book that you should purchase and a book that should remain readily available for the Knowledge Activist. In fact, you should buy multiple copies of this book. It is compact and yet thorough. It is an ideal book to suggest to a partner who needs a quick read on what is KM.

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