Colleagues have been asking me for summer reading suggestions on how Artificial Intelligence canĀ accelerate business results and sharpen leadership skills. Here are 9 books Iāve read recently for our @Moeve digital transformationā or planning to dive into this summerāorganized into 3 categories:
šÆ AI for Leaders
1ļøā£ 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.
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2ļøā£Ā The Coming WaveĀ by Mustafa Suleyman (Crown, 2023)
A systemic view of AIās geopolitical and societal impact from a DeepMind co-founder and later CEO of Microsoft AI.
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3ļøā£ Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI by EricāÆLamarre, KateāÆSmaje & RodneyāÆZemmel (Wiley, 2023)
A playbook used within McKinsey, packed with diagnostic tools, transformation frameworks, and execution guidance based on hundreds of global cases
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š AI for Business & Work Transformation
4ļøā£ AI First, Human Always by Sandy Carter (Wiley, 2025)
Blends strategy, culture, and real-world case studies for leading responsibly in the AI era.
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5ļøā£ CoāIntelligence by Ethan Mollick (Portfolio, 2024)
A practical guide to working with AI as workerārelatable and actionable for leaders.
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6ļøā£ 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.
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š§± AI Evolution
7ļøā£ Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari (Random House, 2024)
A thought-provoking look at how AI is re-shaping civilizationāgreat for strategic foresight.
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8ļøā£ The Singularity Is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil (Viking, 2024)
An updated exploration of the singularity vision and human-AI convergence.
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9ļøā£The 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.
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š Your Suggestions?
What books are on your āAI for businessā reading list this summer? Maybe some books in Spanish (I would recommend my own book āFrom Silicon Valley to your business: Innovation, data, and artificial intelligenceā – Esic Editorial, 2021)?
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