50 Books from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders You Should Read in 2024

Integrated marketing and PR strategies are a requirement for all businesses but with the explosion of social media and content marketing many organizations still struggle to know which channels to invest in and how to maximize their impact. Social Media Strategy gives clear guidance with a simple structured approach to executing campaigns that work. It provides a blueprint for planning, delivering and measuring social media’s contribution to your business through:

To succeed in a fast-changing world, individuals and companies know they must create a culture of growth, where experimentation and feedback are encouraged, and learning is integrated into the everyday. Yet we often get stuck in a well-worn pattern of habits that don’t move us forward. Why?

Bestselling author and futurist Mark Schaefer explains why community is a massively overlooked marketing opportunity. While “community” isn’t new, he explains how three major trends are colliding in a way to make brand communities the future of marketing strategy.

With nearly two decades of school governance experience across Infant, Primary, Secondary, All Through and Alternative Provision schools and academies, distilled into an easy-to-read format, Al Kingsley’s My School & Multi Academy Trust Growth Guide aims to support the discussions and key considerations for any Trust or school looking at their next steps for growth.

As William D. Eggers, executive director of Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights, and Donald F. Kettl, public management scholar, show in this indispensable book, we need a government of bridgebuilders who collaborate with partners—inside and outside government—to get the job done. These leaders manage horizontally instead of vertically; they see their role as connectors; and they identify which players have the assets needed to solve the unprecedented problems at hand.

Written by bestselling author Tom Davenport and Deloitte’s Nitin Mittal, All-In on AI looks at artificial intelligence at its cutting edge from the viewpoint of established companies like Anthem, Ping An, Airbus, and Capital One. Filled with insights, strategies, and best practices, All-In on AI also provides leaders and their teams with the information they need to help their own companies take AI to the next level.

Workforce Ecosystems by Elizabeth J. Altman, David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz, and Robin Jones is an essential research-driven framework for leading these complex, interconnected workforces. Drawing on case studies, worldwide surveys, and extensive interviews with C-suite executives and senior leaders from Amazon, IBM, Mayo Clinic, NASA, Nike, Roche, Unilever, the US Army, Walmart, and others, the authors explore what workforce ecosystems are and how to navigate their unique challenges and opportunities.

The last few years have changed the expectation of leadership. No longer only about decision making, critical thinking, crafting and delivering a strategic plan, but becoming a fuller, more holistic, and human approach to leadership. Leadership that is impactful, ever enhancing and evolving. That has a greater perspective, considering both tactical solutions and strategic relevance. Leadership that is a true reflection of what a community needs to support and lead them.

www.amazon.com.au | April 25, 2023 | Book | Dr Stacey Ashley

Highly acclaimed change management expert Friska Wirya tackles the burning questions that keep forward-looking leaders awake at night, with unique insights that pave the way for change to galvanise. Real-world case studies and thought-provoking analysis equip you to shape a resilient organisation poised for sustained success.

L’idea “semplice” di questo saggio consiste nell’affermare che l’esemplare metodo filosofico di illustri savi – Socrate, Aristotele, Bacon, Descartes, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Husserl, Popper – potrebbe arricchire e rafforzare l’esercizio del governo strategico elevando la governabilità e potenziando la vocazione di progresso dell’impresa.

In Think Bigger, Sheena Iyengar―an acclaimed author and expert in the science of choice―answers a timeless question with enormous implications for problems of all kinds across the world: “How can I get my best ideas?”. Iyengar provides essential tools to spark creative thinking and help us make our most meaningful choices.

Most employees are not engaged in their work. Turnover rates are increasing. Productivity is stagnating. Why? Because when designing work, we rarely consider the deep-seated human need for meaningfulness, autonomy, and feedback. Drawing from decades of research, executive and entrepreneur David Henkin and management consultant Thomas Bertels take us on an investigative journey to solve this problem and make work more productive, satisfying, and meaningful.

In today’s digital age, it’s more important than ever for teens to be equipped with the knowledge and skills to navigate the online world safely and securely. “Cybersecurity Life Skills for Teens” is an essential guide to help teens protect their privacy, reputation, security, and themselves while online. This book covers everything from the basics of cybersecurity and social media savvy to careers in cybersecurity.

In Lateral Thinking for Every Day, acclaimed writer Paul Sloane clearly explains how you can benefit from using a lateral thinking approach. Using inspiring examples from great lateral thinkers including Lady Gaga, Elon Musk and Tim Berners-Lee, this collection of practical tips, techniques, examples and challenges is guaranteed to help you deploy powerful reasoning techniques, become more persuasive and convincing and to come up with fresh solutions to creative challenges.

All humans have an innate drive to make great things. In The Innovation Mindset, Jennifer Kenny shows you exactly how to implement practices that will drive greater innovation, differentiate your products and solutions through better innovation, and maximize the innovation capacity of your team.

Unlock unlimited growth potential for your business using your biggest advocates: your customers. Being a truly customer-centric organization goes beyond just having a customer success function. This book talks about some strategies that will help you adopt a company-wide customer-first mindset to fuel your growth.

In this timely book, veteran information security advisor and thought leader JC Gaillard explains how a common thread in many of the highly publicized data security breaches that have rocked the corporate world in recent years is the neglect of basic cyber security practices. Gaillard doesn’t merely cover how these security lapses occur—he also describes concrete steps organizations can take to bring their information security procedures in line with modern best practices.

Unleashing Firepower, Masters of Business Excellence has assembled experts from around the world, in various disciplines to bring this book to life. How can a former Navy SEAL take lessons those experiences and lessons and apply them to becoming a successful entrepreneur?

The Corporateneur Plan shares stories and teachings from the business journey of Ken Rohl over a lifetime building an extraordinarily successful presence in the “white space” he identified within the luxury home market. Grounded in research and enlivened with personal anecdotes, The Corporateneur Plan is a guidebook for every aspiring entrepreneur to read before cutting the cord from their corporate careers and setting out on their own journey.

Knowledge Management can be used to great effect in business and on an individual level. The Knowledge Management Memory Jogger explains the five key knowledge management areas for success, Knowledge Capture, Transfer, Sharing, Storage, and Findability. Then it demonstrates how you can apply these across different business departments and describes six knowledge management tools and nine knowledge management processes to help you achieve success, along with seven knowledge management guides that will help with challenges that can be solved or alleviated using human-centric knowledge management.

Are you an aspiring Latino leader ready to take on that next transformative role that will jump start your career? Or a seasoned professional ready for a catalyst in your profession? The Latino Leadership Playbook (LLP) is a game-changing leadership accelerator tool – the first of its kind – that will provide the Latino community with proven, targeted and practical business leadership strategies that will shift the corporate Latino Leadership landscape now and for generations to come.

Don’t stay in a job that is the wrong fit. Go! shows you how to listen to your gut and make a thoughtful and savvy plan toward a truly fulfilling career. Equal parts validation, empowerment, and guide, Go! provides powerful examples of career transformation from a wide array of leaders and outlines a versatile 90-day career reboot plan. Go! also opens leaders’ eyes to work culture improvements that can help them keep stellar and diverse talent.

In Causal Artificial Intelligence: The Next Step in Effective, Efficient, and Practical AI, a team of dedicated tech executives delivers a business-focused approach based on a deep and engaging exploration of the models and data used in causal AI. The book’s discussions include both accessible and understandable technical detail and business context and concepts that frame causal AI in familiar business settings.

In this latest book in the best selling Agile Brand Guide series, the successful planning, implementation, and optimization of Generative AI-based tools and platforms is explored. The Agile Brand Guide: Generative AI by best selling author Greg Kihlström gives marketing professionals a solid overview of the space in a short guide format. The book features a foreword by Bernadette Nixon, CEO of Algolia, and contributions by thought leaders from Optimizely, Pega, Infinum, and other organizations.

Grace Under Pressure: Leading Through Change and Crisis focuses on three things leaders need to do when change and adversity strike: take care of their people, take care of themselves, and prepare for the future. And they must do it all with a sense of grace—calmly, collectedly, and compassionately.

AI/ML in Cybersecurity” is a comprehensive guide to the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies in the field of cybersecurity. The book covers various aspects of cybersecurity, including threat intelligence, threat detection, incident response, and advanced security measures. It provides readers with a deep understanding of how AI/ML technologies can be used to enhance the security posture of organizations and mitigate the risks of cyber attacks.

www.amazon.com | August 06, 2023 | Book | Malini Rao

Data and measurement are critical aspects of any marketing strategy, and how this is approached can make the difference between category leaders and those that are left behind. The performance of each individual channel in a brand’s portfolio is important as they contribute to the whole. This means that brands who are able to have the best insights about their customers, their products and services, and their business will pull ahead.

Are you tired of the traditional job search methods that yield little to no results? Are you looking for a game-changing approach to land your dream job? Look no further! Introducing AI-Powered Job Hunting: How to Leverage ChatGPT to Land Your Dream Job. This groundbreaking book is a must-read for anyone seeking career success in today’s digital age. It reveals the secrets to leveraging the power of AI technology, specifically ChatGPT, to optimize your job search and stand out from the competition.

This book aims to illuminate the notion that work can be a positive force in people’s lives. Carrick explores three core elements essential to building a workplace that fosters love and commitment: investing in leaders who prioritize the well-being of their employees, cultivating a conscious and brave culture, and empowering teams that genuinely care for each other. Moreover, she addresses the complexities of modern work environments, such as AI integration, remote and hybrid work models, and dynamic meta-economies.

Metaversed is an insightful discussion and analysis of the next, rapidly approaching technological revolution. The authors deliver a compelling new exploration of how the metaverse and emerging technologies combine to define our collective future. In addition to identifying the business opportunities, the book pulls back the curtain on major safety and privacy issues that will arise and the expected shifts in both our private and social spheres.

The pace of change has picked up and will continue to do so. The future is requiring us to get ourselves and others engaged in change rapidly. In Spark Action, internationally acclaimed speaker, entrepreneur, and advisor Gregg Brown unlocks why people aren’t motivated to act on our ideas and shares insights and strategies to spark positive change in our organizations and communities.

Data for All gives you a step-by-step plan to transform your relationship with data and start earning a “data dividend”—hundreds or thousands of dollars paid out simply for your online activities. You’ll learn how to oversee who accesses your data, how much different types of data are worth, and how to keep private details private.

¡Bienvenidos a la historia de cómo transformamos la Cultura de Seguridad en Latinoamérica! Prepárate para sumergirte en un viaje épico lleno de desafíos y descubrimientos que cambiarán tu forma de pensar sobre la seguridad. Nuestro objetivo no es solo ser recordados como otro momento de seguridad más, sino lograr un cambio duradero que afecte positivamente la vida de millones de personas en toda la región. Y este libro es la herramienta que necesitas para lograrlo.

Humanist Manufacturing: A Humanitarian Approach to Excellence in High-Impact Plant Operations is a valuable resource for industry leaders or those looking to become one, seeking to reimagine the stagnant status quo while improving productivity. Surveying real-world examples of exceptional companies and 40 years of studying organizational excellence, Dr. Sprangel outlines the practical strategies and structures needed to construct a dignified yet competitive workplace. And as you rebuild your guiding purpose from the inside out, you’ll create a positive asset for your stakeholders while ensuring prosperity and transformation.

Completely Satisfied

You want to deliver an excellent digital workplace experience–but how? Forget everything you thought you knew about IT satisfaction. Completely satisfying your digital employees isn’t a matter of more surveys, comparing yourself to what you see on the Internet, or trying to delight them. So what is it, then? Hank Marquis, IT satisfaction and quality of experience guru and IT tech exec, will enlighten you. His new book, Completely Satisfied, shows you how to find your IT solutions’ “experience sweet spot” and deliver that IT experience to those who need it.

An unprecedented guide to user experience (UX) analytics, this book closes a mission-critical skill gap and enables business professionals in a digital-first world to make smart, effective, and quick decisions based on experience analytics.

Information Architecture (IA) focuses on everything you can define about a solution without specifying the underlying system (the raw plumbing) or specifying the particular user interface that will be employed to deliver and manipulate the information. IA is implementation and system independent. The IA is concerned about the architecture of how information is used, how it flows, and how it fits within the user’s world (its context). This publication details important areas of interest in the principles and practice of implementing Information Architecture.

www.amazon.com | March 15, 2023 | Book | Tony Rhem

This book explains the interaction between artificial intelligence and higher education. It explores artificial intelligence’s tangible and intangible impact on higher education and scientific research and discusses how higher education and scientific research enhance the progress of artificial intelligence technologies. Based on systematic analysis with a multidisciplinary approach and a combination of theory and practice, the book brings original perspectives from the massive use of artificial intelligence in higher education and scientific research since the appearance of COVID-19.

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Cybersecurity Audit: Things to Consider in Preparation for Your Cybersecurity Audit

Cybersecurity expert Kimberly Simon provides a comprehensive and practical guide to navigating the intricate world of cybersecurity assessments. Drawing from her extensive experience, Kimberly offers valuable insights into the audit process, addressing common concerns and anxieties faced by organizations. The book demystifies the complex landscape of cybersecurity audits, empowering readers to approach audits confidently and emphasizing the importance of proactive preparation for an audit. This book is for business owners and executives tasked with managing cybersecurity compliance audits. It will help set realistic goals and expectations for third-party audits, as well as aid in planning for resources required to achieve compliance goals.

What is the “art of nothing”? How do we approach this question – not with the determination of obtaining an answer but starting with the fact that we don’t know what it is, and perhaps through a journey within oneself, one can discover what is the essence of this art of nothing. To discover this, one must really ask the question of what is life – not someone else’s life, but your life. Can we investigate in such a way as to discover if the art of nothing is indeed the art that transforms your entire consciousness, or does it introduce another idealistic theory for which we will stay trapped in our current way of living?

Navigating Holistic Growth: The Servant Leader’s Guide: Servant Leadership and the Art of Transformation

This second edition features new material covering image manipulation practices, image segmentation, feature extraction, and object identification using real-life scenarios to help reinforce each concept. These topics are essential for building advanced computer vision applications, and you’ll gain a thorough understanding of them. The book’s source code has been updated from TensorFlow 1.x to 2.x, and includes step-by-step examples using both OpenCV and TensorFlow with Python.

If you are facing breast cancer, you need more than medical advice. You need spiritual support and encouragement to face the challenges ahead. This book offers you 31 quick daily devotions that will inspire you to trust God, find hope, and experience healing. Each devotion includes a scripture verse, and a reflection to inspire personal prayer. Whether you are newly diagnosed, undergoing treatment, or in remission, this book will help you discover the strength and peace that only God can provide.

The Power of She: Encouraging Women to Embrace Their Strengths is an inspiring self-help book that aims to empower women to unlock their full potential and live their best lives. The book is written by Pastoral Counselor and Empowerment Coach, Dr. Angela Butts Chester, who has extensive experience in coaching and mentoring women.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how Agile principles can be applied to the processes of procurement and sourcing, including how to manage requirements, prioritize tasks, and deliver results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. It also covers strategies for building and maintaining effective teams, and for implementing Agile practices in a way that promotes collaboration and flexibility.

Are you ready for a mind-blowing journey that will forever change the way you perceive the world? “You, Me and AI: A Journey into the Future” is an extraordinary, unmissable exploration of how artificial intelligence is poised to revolutionize every aspect of our lives. This groundbreaking work will captivate, inform, and inspire readers from all walks of life, making it the only AI book you’ll ever need.

The Science of CRM: The Bible of Relationship Marketing and Customer Experience: from Traditional to Digital. The most complete book on CRM (Relationship Marketing) ever written in Brazil. The book is divided into three parts. You will understand all the strategy involved for companies and careers that really want to work with data, but with the ultimate goal of relating better to customers, employees and citizens.

Write Your Book in a Flash with Artificial Intelligence — Ethically

You can write a book in a flash with artificial intelligence software — ethically. I did. My clients did. You can too. When you read this short e-book, you’ll see exactly how you can create your non-fiction book with artificial intelligence so you can: Attract clients because the book will help them get to know, like, and trust you so they will want to hire you to solve their problems. Make the world a better place by showing how your process can help people lead better lives. And much, much more.

Mentoring Mastery: Igniting Greatness and Nurturing a Legacy

In a world where individual success often takes the spotlight, there’s a hidden force that can transform lives and reshape destinies: mentoring. Dr. Joe Perez, a seasoned IT expert with over three decades of experience, unveils the secrets of Mentoring Mastery. Dive into captivating real-life stories that showcase the transformative power of mentorship, and discover how it can reshape your journey to greatness. Explore the profound impact of mentoring on personal and professional growth, backed by compelling research and insights.

Leading Culture Change and Transformation: A Cookbook for Change Leaders

Change is the new normal. If there is one skill that can help in digesting the constant innovation and technological advancements, it is transformation. There are various terms involved in the transformation journey – organizational transformation, change management, and organizational development. And as leaders, it is important to understand the terms, how are they related, and the framework to execute them efficiently.

Digital Agency Mastery

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, mastering the art of running a successful digital agency has become a sought-after skill. “Digital Agency Mastery” is an insightful and comprehensive ebook that serves as the ultimate guide for entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners looking to thrive in the fast-paced world of digital marketing.

Don’t Just Sell to Customers. Include Them.

Personas and customer journeys are tools that can help you discover (or rediscover) who your organization’s customers are and how your organization can engage with them to build a sense of belonging. Such tools can help reconnect the organization to its customer communities, bridging the gap between them. In this guide, we’ll review how personas, journeys, goals, outcomes, and metrics can be used to improve your customer’s digital experience, build belonging and community, and ultimately, increase revenue.

Chat GPT for Business Growth: Unleashing the Power of AI for Success (The Disruptive Ebook Series)

In “Chat GPT for Business: Unleashing the Power of AI for Success,” discover a transformative guide that navigates the dynamic landscape of modern business with unparalleled insight. This book demystifies the integration of AI, specifically ChatGPT, into your company’s strategies, revealing how this cutting-edge technology can be harnessed to propel your organization towards unprecedented growth and achievement.

The intent of AI is to enable computers to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, as such AI will evolve to take many jobs once performed by humans. When I started in AI in the late 1980’s and through the late 1990’s, AI was identified as a multidisciplinary science, which included expert systems, neural networks, robotics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Speech Recognition and Vision. This multidisciplinary aspect of AI enabled AI to make inroads into industries such as healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and the military.

This ideal companion for business leaders heading into a milestone moment offers practical advice to help them take something that can seem amorphous and abstract – living an intentional, purposeful life – and turn it into reality. Though it might seem counterintuitive, this book demonstrates that to move forward in the right direction, you must understand and integrate your past into your present.

Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious: How Coaching Can Help You Get Out of Your Own Way and Create A Meaningful Life

In Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious: How Coaching Can Help You Get Out Of Your Own Way and Create A Meaningful Life, veteran coach Ruth Pearce delivers an incisive set of strategies designed to help you celebrate your wins and focus on the positives in your life. In this “portable life coach,” you’ll learn how to look at problems, challenges, and uncertainties in a way that can lead to deeper meaning in your professional and personal life.

Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption

The Economy of Algorithms: Rise of Digital Minions

The Human Centred Coach