This is the best book on the big picture I've ever read (to date - Sept. 2007). The authors elaborate on REAL strategic thinking, not the 5-10 year junk that is SO prevalent in business and Christian literature (not that this is a Christian book by any means).

Real strategy that needs a good 10 to 50 years to germinate. Strategy that goes after goals that there is, currently, NO way to achieve! Sweet. Imagine wanting to get real-time, full audio-video communication between any two people in the world - and imagine this dream comes to you in 1974 -- THAT kind of "strategic thinking."

They explain it, they defend it, they show it in real-world examples. Then they dissect it and show how to get at it. But without spoon-feeding the content, just the process.

Perfect.

This makes it on my top 15 books I've ever read.