Reading List
Co-Intelligence
Generative AI is not merely a tool — it is a new form of collaborative intelligence reshaping how humans think, create, and innovate. Through the lens of history, Ethan Mollick explores how AI transforms imagination and creativity, much like the Jacquard loom transformed craftsmanship centuries ago.
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
There is no one true strategy. The advice that builds an empire in one market quietly sinks a company in another. Winning starts the moment you stop asking "what's the best strategy?" and start asking "best for what?"
The Singularity Is Nearer
A thought-provoking exploration of Ray Kurzweil’s vision of technological singularity, where artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and human evolution converge. Through the metaphor of the chrysalis, it examines humanity’s transformation into a future beyond its current imagination.
Fragile Dominion
A medieval cathedral holds up its roof through no single load-bearing wall. The weight travels through a redundant lattice of ribs, buttresses, and arches, each one carrying part of the burden so that the failure of any one stone is absorbed by the rest.
The Imagination Machine
The Imagination Machine — two words that, read with any care, refuse each other. A machine is, by definition, the opposite of imaginative. A machine follows rules. It produces outputs predictable from inputs.
Buyer Personas
Unlike demographic attributes, these rings describe the dynamics of choice. Each ring answers a question a designer or developer should be asking before writing a single line of code or pushing a single pixel.
The Mind of a Fox
The authors build on an old philosophical idea. A hedgehog knows one big trick and sticks to it. A fox knows many tricks, explores new paths, and changes quickly when the world changes.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Popper argues that scientific theories cannot be proven true by accumulating supporting observations because universal natural laws apply to an infinite number of instances.
The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman explores how AI, biotechnology, and other emerging technologies are transforming the world. The coming wave promises remarkable progress, but also creates risks that society must learn to contain.
Upstream of Innovation
The Imagination Machine — two words that, read with any care, refuse each other. A machine is, by definition, the opposite of imaginative. A machine follows rules. It produces outputs predictable from inputs.
Seeing Around Corners
Rita McGrath shows how leaders can spot early signals of disruption, adapt their strategies, and turn inflection points into opportunities before the market shifts.
The Art of the Long View
Peter Schwartz shows how scenario planning helps us explore multiple possible futures, challenge our assumptions, and make better decisions today with a longer view.
The Book of Why
Judea Pearl explores the science of cause and effect, showing how causal reasoning, interventions, and counterfactual thinking can help us understand the world more deeply.
The Signals Are Talking
Amy Webb shows how to identify meaningful patterns, distinguish real trends from passing fads, and use emerging signals to anticipate disruption and prepare for what comes next.
A New Way to Think
Martin shows how leaders can rethink traditional business assumptions, challenge established ideas, and develop new approaches to navigate uncertainty and create lasting success.
Curated Talks and Videos
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
By Martin Reeves
Why there's no single winning strategy-ond how leaders should adapt their approach to changing environments.
5 Ways to Lead in an Era of Constant Change
By Jim Hernerting
Five leadership principles that help organizations thrive amid continuous disruption.
How to manage for collective creativity
By Linda Hill
Creating environments where Innovation emerges merges through collaboration instead of Individual briliance.
Dare to Disagree
By Margaret Heffernan
Constructive disagreement fuels better decisions, stronger teams, and mare resilient organizations.
What It Takes to Be a Great Leader
By Roselinde Tormes
Three essential questions every leader should ask to remain effective in a rapidly changing world.
Life Lessons from an Ad Man
By Rory Sutherland
Why changing perception can sometimes create more value than changing reality.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
By Simon Sinek
The famous "Start With Why framework explaining how great leaders inspire people to take action
Permission to fail: why maverick bees can teach us all a valuable lesson
By Rory Sutherland
Rory Sutherland shares his vision for the future of learning, education and how technology can help unlock human potential
Are We Now Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
By Rory Sutherland
Rory Sutherland on risk, ambition, and the mindset required to build something meaningful in today's world
The AI revolution is underhyped
By Eric Schmidt
The arrival of non-human intelligence is a very big deal, says former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt.
The next computer? Your glasses
By Shahram Izadi
In a live demo of unreleased technology, computer scientist Shahram Izadi unveils Google’s new Android XR platform.
Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert was once an "unpublished diner waitress," devastated by rejection letters.
Magic and wonder in the age of AI
By David Kwong
How technology evolves
By Kevin Kelly
How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution
By Kevin Kelly
Elizabeth Gilbert was once an "unpublished diner waitress," devastated by rejection letters.
The anti-CEO playbook
By Hamdi Ulukaya
How your brain responds to stories -- and why they're crucial for leaders
By Karen Eber
The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive
By Niro Sivanathan
What's the best way to make a good point? Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the "dilution effect," a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases
What really matters at the end of life
By BJ Miller
The human skills we need in an unpredictable world
By Margaret Heffernan