Entrepreneurs and executives managing global operations might also benefit from a book that points to corporations thinking about terrorism and security issues in a strategic manner and not just as an afterthought.
What are the CEOs and brand managers at these corporations thinking?
Pacific Century's proposed deal was thrown into doubt last week by its own tumbling stock price and reports that Singapore Telecommunications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation were thinking about reviving their offer for Cable and Wireless HKT.
Many government and corporate research labs like Microsoft Research, International Business Machines and AT&T Labs, either already have a quantum computing group, or, like NASA's Ames Research Center and the Hewlett-Packard Corporation, are thinking of starting one.
However, while the corporation is thinking about making the iPlayer sign-in only, there are no plans to link it to the licence fee or an address, which would make it relatively simple to work out who is watching without paying.
"I got a call that HOC Investments, Carey's corporation, was thinking of selling some of the lots, and when I saw the list I almost swallowed my tongue," says Knight.
This frame may lead some corporations into thinking that that they can consider corporate sustainability when times are good, and ignore it when the real bottom line is squeezed.
While this is a good idea, provided that it is paid for with base-broadening so that it does not add to the deficit, it is important to look beyond corporations when thinking about the taxation of businesses.
The corporation is also thinking about not replacing BBC director of television Danny Cohen, whose role has been carried out on an interim basis by Mark Linsey since last November.
Reportedly, the old man said on his death bed, "My son is like a czar!" The Soviet secret police became, after Stalin's death, much more of a "thinking corporation," and in doing so became increasingly attractive to the upwardly mobile.
