Technology Leadership

In Artificial Organizations, Barry O'Reilly shows how to redesign how you sense, frame, decide, and act with human and machine intelligence. You begin by identifying the traits that make you most effective, then the tasks where you create disproportionate value. Only then do you apply AI tools—so they sharpen judgment, not noise.

What if your technology organization stopped defending its cost and started proving its value? Profitable Engineering is a leadership book grounded in the realities of software delivery. It examines the organizational system behind engineering performance: how work is funded, prioritized, structured, measured, and led, and why those decisions often matter more than the framework teams follow. Most software organizations do not struggle because their people lack talent or because they chose the wrong methodology.

AI can produce more, faster than ever. But can it replace your judgement, resilience, creativity and ability to lead people? As artificial intelligence transforms the workplace, many experienced professionals are asking an uncomfortable question: Will I still be relevant? The Human Edge offers a practical and reassuring answer. Your future does not depend on competing with machines. It depends on strengthening the distinctly human capabilities that technology can amplify but cannot fully own.

AI tools are everywhere. Clear guidance on what to build with them is not. Most people don’t fail with AI because they lack access, skill, or motivation. They fail because they never decide what deserves their focus. They keep learning and tweaking—while real progress stays just out of reach. If you’ve explored platforms, followed tutorials, and still asked yourself how you could monetize AI—it isn’t confusion. It’s a missing decision framework.

How to keep your intuition and human instinct intact in our current technological era. Businesses are constantly moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to navigate an increasingly digital future effectively. But the startling and often overlooked truth is that the promise of...

Kaizen, skills, integration: three words that 20 years ago didn't mean anything, today they mean a lot. Our economy and society rotate around these concepts. Which role do they play in our life? Furthermore, we all know that the globalization is making our system changing so fast that we literally have to run! And who wins the marathon at the end? The business with the best players. The most motivated, the most skilled-matching team.

You know AI matters, but you're just not sure what to do with it. Every day brings a new tool, a new headline, or worse, another feeling that you’re falling behind. In your leadership role, you don’t know where or how to get started, much less how to mobilize others. You’re not alone. Most books about AI explain what AI is. This book tells you what to do with it—how to get started right now and set up your organization to drive value with AI within 90 days.

The business-IT wall must come down. Mark brings his unique perspective and experience to business leaders looking to lead their company into the digital age by harnessing the expertise and innovation that is already under their roof: IT. For business leaders looking to unlock their enterprise's digital transformation, War and Peace and IT provides clear context and strategies. Schwartz demystifies the role IT plays in the modern enterprise, allowing business leaders to create new strategies for the new digital battleground.

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

The profession of Agile Coaching is, in a word, confusing. Bob Galen has written Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching to help alleviate the confusion. The book centers on the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as the competency and skill maturity model to baseline your agile coaching skills against. Its core goal is to “raise the bar” as to what true excellence looks like and to help you establish a personal development and growth plan. Consider this book that maps to coaching badassery, personal growth, and client service.

Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly Bestseller Learn success secrets from original remote work pioneers on the mindset and strategies they developed to build and grow successful organizations from the ground up. With the unprecedented rise in remote work due to the pandemic, many...

Despite him now having over 55,000 workers and billions in revenue every year, Bezos still manages to run his business with a highly intimate approach. As we celebrate Amazon's 23rd year in business, we will also celebrate Bezos' 23 best lessons about business, leadership, and life. This audiobook is a tribute to the brilliant man that Bezos is and all that his own life lessons have to offer us as we strive to create the same excellence within our own lives and businesses.

The future belongs to those who stop doing what machines can do—and start owning what they can’t. AI didn’t eliminate work. It redefined where human value actually lives. As automation accelerates, speed, volume, and technical execution are becoming cheap. What’s becoming rare is judgment—the ability to decide what matters, what doesn’t, and where attention should be spent. The people gaining the most leverage from AI aren’t trying to keep up with machines. They’re stepping out of execution and into direction. They’re delegating the routine and reclaiming the decisions that shape outcomes.

In an age of artificial intelligence, speed is everywhere. Clarity is not. Mastering Self-Leadership in the Age of AI is a reflective and practical audiobook for leaders, professionals, and growth-minded listeners who want to stay grounded, emotionally clear, and human in a world moving faster than ever. Written and narrated by Mike Stamos, this audiobook explores how AI can become a mirror—not a master.

This audiobook is a reference guide for healthcare executives and technology providers involved in the ongoing digital transformation of the healthcare sector. The audiobook focuses specifically on the challenges and opportunities for health systems in their journey toward a digital future. It draws from proprietary research and public information, along with interviews with over 150 executives in leading health systems such as Cleveland Clinic, Partners, Mayo, Kaiser, and Intermountain as well as numerous technology and retail providers.

This is a 30-day execution playbook. Each chapter builds on the last. Complete the action steps, and you'll have a working AI system—not just theoretical knowledge.

Understanding AI technology is just the beginning. Leaders must understand how to employ power skills to elevate how humans interact—with one another and with AI. Critical thinking, leadership, conflict management, stakeholder engagement and other power skills are essential in all projects. AI-Powered Leadership aims to empower leaders to navigate the complexities of the AI-driven world by developing human competencies and integrating them with AI capabilities, fostering a balanced, innovative, and ethically sound leadership approach that drives sustainable success.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on leading digital transformation, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you set ambitious milestones for your transformation, anticipate and avoid common mistakes, and...

Leadership is evolving. Have you future-proofed your career? AI isn’t coming—it's already here, reshaping leadership, decision-making, and success. The leaders who embrace AI-first strategies will thrive. The ones who don’t? They’ll be left behind. In The Leadership Playbook, Revisited, award-winning executive strategist Keryn Gold, PhD, MBA, delivers an actionable, high-impact, no-nonsense guide for executives and professionals ready to lead smarter, faster, and more effectively in the AI era. You’ll learn: How AI is transforming leadership—and what great AI-first leaders do differently.

The AI-First Mindset in Cybersecurity Leadership offers a third path between the two mistakes smart leaders keep making: dismissing AI as hype while falling behind a threat that is not waiting, or embracing it blindly and deploying systems no one can explain, audit, or defend. Written from the practitioner's chair and in plain language, it makes a clear argument. The profession's oldest values, skepticism, rigor, and human ownership, are not obstacles to adopting AI well. They are the qualifications for it.