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Welcome to our first Future Ready Digest of 2025 presenting a selection of the best and most relevant books and articles published in 2024 by HBR, MIT, INSEAD, TechPolicy and others. Looking back before we look forward to a New Year.
Some really interesting ones here (most with podcasts too):
- Imagination: A Manifesto
- The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation
- Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
- Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
- AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
- Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
- The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
- Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality
- Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
- How AI Ate the World: A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence – And Its Long Future
- Media and January 6th.
- What is AI?
- The AI Hype Index
- What are AI agents?
- Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
- 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024, and others.
- Could More Human-Like AI Undermine Trust?
- Video: INSEAD Explains GenAI
- Four Ways GenAI Can Give You a Competitive Edge
- Podcast: How to Dismantle Hierarchies in Teams
- The Six Dimensions of Winning Teams
- Will the Shifting Economic Power Balance Topple Democracy?
An interesting read from HBR - seven charts visualising key themes and trends that shaped business and management and the state of the world in 2024 including:
- What everyone is really doing with gen AI
- How economies respond to populist leaders
- The long tail of layoffs
- A new way to measure loneliness at work
- The challenges of getting to net zero
- What we can learn from beer and boycotts
- What the future of work might look like
Suggested winter reads from the Leadership Now:
- Mindshift: Ignite Change, Inspire Action, and Innovate for a Better Tomorrow by Brian Solis
- Productive Failure: Unlocking Deeper Learning Through the Science of Failing by Manu Kapur
- Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Power of Culture: An Economist Edge Book by Laura Hamill
- Reset: How to Change What's Not Working by Dan Heath
- Essential: How Distributed Teams, Generative AI, and Global Shifts Are Creating a New Human-Powered Leadership by Christie Smith and Kelly Monahan
- Employment Is Dead: How Disruptive Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Way We Work by Deborah Perry Piscione and Josh Drean
- Rethinking Work: Seismic Changes in the Where, When, and Why by Rishad Tobaccowala.
- 3-D printing with liquid metal
- Chatting with the future you
- Generative AI for databases
- Inside the LLM black box
- Finding AI’s world model lacking.
Thank you for reading the Future Ready Digest.
As always, comments and feedback are very welcome.
A Very Happy New Year to you all.
MBA Class of 2025, Durham University Business School II Mckinsey Forward Program Alumni ll Healthcare Operations
3wThis is a treasure trove of knowledge! Thank you Jim Hamill (Dr)!