Colleagues have been asking me for summer reading suggestions on how Artificial Intelligence can accelerate business results and sharpen leadership skills. Here are 9 books I’ve read recently for our @Moeve digital transformation— or planning to dive into this summer—organized into 3 categories:
🎯 AI for Leaders
1️⃣ The AI-Driven Leader by Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb & Shane Greenstein (Harvard Business Review Press, 2024)
A framework for applying AI to accelerate strategic decision-making, helping leaders to use AI to make better decisions, applied data, and drive organizational change.
➡️ Amazon
2️⃣ The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman (Crown, 2023)
A systemic view of AI’s geopolitical and societal impact from a DeepMind co-founder and later CEO of Microsoft AI.
➡️ Amazon
3️⃣ Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI by Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje & Rodney Zemmel (Wiley, 2023)
A playbook used within McKinsey, packed with diagnostic tools, transformation frameworks, and execution guidance based on hundreds of global cases
➡️ Amazon
🔁 AI for Business & Work Transformation
4️⃣ AI First, Human Always by Sandy Carter (Wiley, 2025)
Blends strategy, culture, and real-world case studies for leading responsibly in the AI era.
➡️ Amazon
5️⃣ Co‑Intelligence by Ethan Mollick (Portfolio, 2024)
A practical guide to working with AI as worker—relatable and actionable for leaders.
➡️ Amazon
6️⃣ All Hands on Tech by Thomas H. Davenport & Ian Barkin (Wiley, 2024)
Explores how empowering non-technical employees as “citizen developers” drives AI-fueled innovation and transformation.
➡️ Amazon
🧱 AI Evolution
7️⃣ Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari (Random House, 2024)
A thought-provoking look at how AI is re-shaping civilization—great for strategic foresight.
➡️ Amazon
8️⃣ The Singularity Is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil (Viking, 2024)
An updated exploration of the singularity vision and human-AI convergence.
➡️ Amazon
9️⃣The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li (Flatiron Books, 2023)
An interesting story from a pioneer in AI and Stanford professor, that balances science, ethics, and storytelling.
➡️ Amazon
👇 Your Suggestions?
What books are on your “AI for business” reading list this summer? Maybe some books in Spanish (I would recommend my own book “From Silicon Valley to your business: Innovation, data, and artificial intelligence” – Esic Editorial, 2021)?
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Let’s build a shared reading guide—drop your favorites on Linkedin 👇
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Villaseca on Digital & Business 