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Latest Read: HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2025

HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2025: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review.

HBR's 10 Must Reads 2025: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

In the closing days of 2023 I was reading HBR’s 10 Must Reads for 2024. This was a good indicator of management ideas for the coming new year. A year later, closing 2024 seems perfect to begin 2025 with HBR’s annual refresh.

This book is for both new and experienced leaders seeking insights, inspiration, and advice to propel their organizations forward in the new year.

Perhaps no other topic is the continuing role of AI impacting organizations last year and the coming impact of AI Agents. Perhaps their 2026 Must Reads will expand upon the growth of agents we will engage this year.

Why? The chapter ‘Reskilling in the Age of AI’ acknowledged ChatGPT’s impact was not predicted. As a result computer automation was already set to displace and transform the global workforce. Now LLMs, Agents, and ML will perhaps drive those numbers even higher. The message: Reskilling will be a focal point for organizations to thrive in an AI-driven environment. Yet the advice includes the challenge that organizational ups killing simply will not be enough. Worth the read alone especially for colleges and training centers.

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Latest Read: Superintelligence

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom.

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

Nick holds an MA in Philosophy and Physics from Stockholm University, an MSc in Computational Neuroscience from King’s College London, and a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics.

He remains a Professor at Oxford University where he serves as the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He is a former lecturer at Yale University and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford.

Nick has been recognized as one of the most respected philosophers about AI safety and ethics. As a result, “Superintelligence” has been noted as a critical read for anyone to understand AI systems development.

We should not be surprised to see a respected Philosopher ask: what happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? With so many question surrounding this issue, he addresses a foundation for understanding our future and intelligent life. I found this book extremely fascinating.

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Latest Read: The Human Cloud

The Human Cloud: How Today’s Changemakers Use Artificial Intelligence and the Freelance Economy to Transform Work by Matthew Mottola and Matthew Douglas Coatney.

The Human Cloud: How Today’s Changemakers Use Artificial Intelligence and the Freelance Economy to Transform Work by Matthew Mottola and Matthew Douglas Coatney

Matthew Mottola holds an MBA from Babson College. He is Co-Founder and CEO of The Human Cloud. He is a visiting Lecturer at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Business. Matthew Douglas Coatney holds a Master of Science from Ohio State University. He is CIO and Thomson Hine.

Together, Mottola and Coatney are providing a good overview of how AI and the freelance economy are reshaping work dynamics. In fact, readers across the country and the world will understand one case studies as a global brand from Milwaukee Wisconsin. This organization has indeed adjusted to the new freelance economy. When this occurs in your own backyard, you’ll understand why.

You must understand that the true power of AI to alter work has yet to hit its full stride. If you’re not aware how this will certainly impact you, then you may indeed get run over. I’m not kidding and Mottola and Coatney are beginning to lay the foundation for what is coming.

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Latest Read: Power to the Middle

Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work by Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock and Emily Field.

Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work by Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock and Emily Field.

Bill holds a PhD in Management from Auburn University. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey focusing on organizational culture and change. Bryan holds a JD from Harvard University and is a Partner at McKinsey specializing in talent management and organizational development. Emily holds a BA in Political Science from Georgetown University and is a Partner at McKinsey focusing on data-driven organizational strategies.

Power to the Middle is one of the best books to read if you’re organization is even thinking of cutting midlevel managers in the new world of work. The real goal is to help leadership understand “Middle manager” in a post pandemic, AI driven world. The term is from our industrial era.

Yet Bill, Brian and Emily certainly reveals how this outdated term needs to change as our digital future demands it. They are also revealing how middle managers are closer to your workforce, and understand how to link them to your company strategy while also having the skillsets to engage your senior leadership.

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Latest Read: Unsupervised

Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies by Daniel Doll-Steinberg and Stuart Leaf.

Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies by Daniel Doll-Steinberg and Stuart Leaf

Daniel holds a BS in Engineering from The University of Manchester UK and Honorary Senior Research Associate from University College London. He is a lecturer at The Wharton School. He is co-founder and partner at EdenBase. Advisor to the UK Government and European Commission on innovation, growth, and education policy. Stuart holds a BA in Economics and MBA from Stanford. He is co-founder of the Cadogan fund.

Written by experienced technology fund managers, Daniel and Stuart are addressing the broad range of powerful new technologies which are disrupting and transforming everything. In fact their message is simply now is the time that you must act and adapt. This book was named a Bloomberg Best Book of 2023.

At first glance you may consider the focus upon Unsupervised Machine Learning, but that is way off base. Daniel and Stuart are providing an overview of how a core set of disruptive technologies have been developing at an accelerating pace that most of the world is not accustomed to seeing. They also question who is in fact in control of these technologies, and are emphasizing that these have developed for the most part without any supervision.

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