Inspiring Reads: New Books from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders 2026

A practical, executive-level blueprint for turning AI ambition into real outcomes—using PostgreSQL as the foundation for secure, sovereign, and scalable intelligence.

AI | Agentic AI | Open Source

What should a governing board or Trust Board actually be asking? This fully revised second edition brings together 150 questions every school governor and academy trustee in England should put to their board, their leaders and themselves, each with clear, practical guidance on why it matters…

AI Governance | EdTech | Education

AI is already in your school. By autumn 2025, well over half of teachers were using it for their work, most without telling anyone, and pupils are further ahead still. So the question facing SLT, governing and trust boards was never whether to adopt AI; it is whether the AI already in the building…

AI | AI Governance | Education

Agentic AI | AI Governance | Open Source

Markets are changing faster than ever before. Customer preferences evolve rapidly, technologies disrupt established industries, competitors emerge from unexpected directions, and regulatory shifts can reshape entire markets overnight. Yet most traditional strategy frameworks focus on analyzing…

Business Strategy | Digital Disruption | Sustainability

Most sales teams are using AI the wrong way. They write better emails. They summarize meetings faster. They experiment with prompts. But the real leverage lies elsewhere: AI doesn’t just have to help. AI can take over the work. In this book, Tim Cortinovis shows how B2B sales teams can…

Agentic AI | AI | Sales

A strategic procurement book arguing that procurement has moved beyond purchasing to become a central force for value creation, supplier intelligence, risk management, innovation, governance, and institutional power.

AI | Procurement | Supply Chain

A leadership and institutional performance book examining why organizations succeed or fail, how systems carry decisions into execution, and how governance, alignment, culture, strategy, and discipline determine long-term performance.

Business Strategy | Leadership | Transformation

eadership That Lasts brings together perspectives from global leaders, experts, and practitioners on navigating complexity in a rapidly changing world. As technology accelerates and sustainability expectations rise, leaders must make decisions that balance impact across people, planet, and profit…

AGI | Project Management | Sustainability

I am thrilled to share the publication of my new business novel, The Human Anchor A Novel of Industry 5.0 and the Human Centric Future of Physical AI. Drawing from three decades of industrial leadership and ongoing architectural work in neuroadaptive robotics, this book addresses the critical…

AI | Business Strategy | Manufacturing

In The Aura of Two Minds, Farooq Omar and Zen Benefiel introduce a transformative framework for the next era of leadership: Coherent Intelligence. Their combined efforts offers a practical and resilient view of next-level leadership, alignment and coherence in organizations. Blending systems science…

Coaching | Innovation | Leadership

Moving beyond the hype, The Impact of AI in Supply Management explains how advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI can be responsibly integrated into procurement’ s strategy, operating model, and culture. With a strong emphasis on trust, governance, and explainability, this book…

AI | Digital Transformation | Procurement

AI is changing how project-based work is planned, governed and delivered. Yet many organizations are adopting AI faster than they can align on how to use it responsibly and effectively. The Standard for Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio, Program and Project Management helps close that gap…

AI | AI Ethics | AI Governance

Spiral Up es una guía práctica para personas, equipos y organizaciones que desean fortalecerse a través del cambio. Basado en el modelo SPIRAL UP, el libro ofrece herramientas, ejemplos reales y estrategias para desarrollar agilidad, resiliencia, liderazgo, colaboración y una cultura de aprendiz…

Change Management | Leadership | Transformation

This book analyzes the ongoing global battle for digital dominance. The United States, China, Russia, Europe, emerging powers, and tech giants are vying for control of infrastructure, data, and standards. Using concrete examples (sovereign cloud computing, extraterritorial laws, dependence on smart …

AI | Cybersecurity | Quantum Computing

Biography written on Capt Pradeep Singh

Business Strategy | Entrepreneurship

On paper, it was the best year in the company’s sixty-year history. Revenue was up. Renewals were strong. The board was celebrating. But inside the leadership team, a quiet question had begun to form: What if the market had already moved on? When long-time client Virtus pauses its…

Business Strategy | Leadership | Sales

Breaking Orbit is a leadership fiction novel that blends humour, emotion, and real-world leadership lessons into a fast-paced sci-fi adventure. Follow Navi Sol as she navigates pressure, imposter syndrome, difficult bosses, team dynamics, and the chaos of modern leadership aboard a futuristic…

Coaching | Leadership | Management

Forty-five leaders. One closed door. One hour that turned a career — and, more often than not, a person. For eleven years, Sudhakar Reddy Gade has sat across from senior leaders in pharmaceuticals, technology, manufacturing, finance, healthcare. They arrived with a promotion they had been…

Coaching

Chemotherapy is weird. One minute you’re fine, and then the next minute your hands are fizzing, your jaw won’t open properly, and you’re wondering how on earth pizza, yes lovely pizza, has betrayed you. This is Part Two of Oh SH!T, I’ve Got Bowel Cancer. The diaries of a middle-aged man…

Healthcare | HealthTech | Mental Health

MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT An essential read for every leader. Explore the megatrends of leadership relentlessly moving us towards a global leadership crisis. The convergence of factors that have created the gap between the leaders we need and the leaders we have. A global insufficiency of leaders…

Change Management | Leadership | Management

“A category-creating bridge between Revenue Architecture, RevOps, and Agentic AI leadership.” Agentic Revenue Systems is a strategic playbook for revenue leaders entering the next era of growth. For years, B2B revenue organizations have relied on human coordination to keep the machine…

Agentic AI | Business Strategy | Sales

In today’s hyper-connected world, delivering exceptional customer experience (CX) is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s the key to growth, trust, and long-term loyalty.

Business Strategy | Customer Experience | Leadership

Leadership changes the moment your calendar stops being yours. One week you are responsible for your own output. The next, your day is shaped by meetings you did not schedule, decisions you did not anticipate, and questions that cannot wait. Most new managers respond by working harder, holding…

IT Leadership | Leadership | Management

The Right Brain Labs approach to moving from just using AI to Thinking with it

Agentic AI | AGI | AI

A soup to nuts strategy guide for business leaders interested in implementing artificial intelligence in their organizations in a way that drives real-world results, Data Makes the World Go ‘Round: The Data, Tech, and Trust Behind AI Success combines specific, actionable advice for technical and…

Agentic AI | AI | AI Governance

You don’t need to become a technologist. You need to become a leader who can think alongside one. Every week, a new AI tool promises to change everything. And every week, thousands of senior leaders quietly wonder the same thing: Where do I fit in a world where machines can think?…

Leadership | Management

Payroll controls up to 80% of an organisation’s operating expenditure. It holds compliance risk worth millions. It is the reason every employee trusts their employer enough to show up tomorrow.

Payroll

Everything wrong with your culture is showing up in one meeting. You’re just not seeing it yet. Most leadership books tell you to have better one-on-ones. This one tells you why yours keep failing, and what that failure is actually trying to tell you. The Missed Meeting applies Self-Determinatio…

Behavioral Science | HR | Leadership

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PROMOTION: HALF PRICE! Igniting the Data Dance is a transformative guide for leaders, analysts, and visionaries who want to move beyond checklists and compliance to build data governance programs that truly endure. Drawing from decades of experience in state government…

Analytics | Big Data | IT Strategy

A practical, non-technical guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and curious minds “Agents are (…) bringing about the biggest revolution in computing since we went from typing commands to tapping on icons.” — Bill Gates “AI agents will become the primary way we interact with computers…

Agentic AI | AI | Generative AI

The Art of Flow: Overcoming Turbulence at the Personal, Team, and Organizational Level

Business Strategy | Leadership | Management

What if the struggle you are trying to escape is the very place God is forming you? Leadership is often portrayed as strength, clarity, and momentum. Yet Scripture tells a different story. At the heart of biblical leadership lies a night of wrestling — a moment when self-reliance gives way to…

Leadership | Management | Transformation

Modern organizations are under increasing pressure to operate sustainably, manage risk effectively, and deliver long-term value in volatile environments. Yet even well-intentioned leaders inside sophisticated institutions often produce outcomes that undermine these goals. When failures occur…

Sustainability

We are often told to trust our instincts. What if those instincts are quietly working against us? Unseen Leadership: Interrupt the Instincts That Block Your Success challenges what leaders have long been rewarded for. Through decades advising and coaching senior executives, author Amy J. Clark has…

Business Strategy | Future of Work | Leadership

he Real Cost of Regeneration: Judgment and the Limits of Modern Organizations examines why sustainable business strategy, regenerative leadership, and organizational design so often fail—even when intentions are good and effort is high. This is not a leadership self‑help book. It is a systems…

Business Strategy | Management | Sustainability

Uncertainty Advantage fundamentally reframes how leaders should think about disruption, arguing that uncertainty is the primary source of competitive advantage in modern markets. When crises emerge, value doesn’t disappear; it redistributes to those who detect shifts earlier, decide faster, and act…

Management | Risk Management | Supply Chain

The Leadership Trap Good leaders do not wake up planning to damage their organisations. They do it one trapped decision at a time. The Leadership Trap reveals six recurring patterns that quietly pull capable people towards failure, from frontline managers to CEOs and founders. Drawing on…

Behavioral Science | Leadership | Management

Discusses the convergence of AI, information, and the geopolitical landscape Offers theoretical and methodological frameworks to analyze AI’s impact on global power dynamics Incorporates interdisciplinary perspectives

AI Ethics | AI Governance | Emerging Technology

Sales often feels uncomfortable not because people lack skill, but because they are taught tactics before mindset. Scripts are memorized, frameworks are adopted, and techniques are practiced — yet deeper assumptions about selling remain untouched. Sales Unlearned is written for people who…

Business Strategy | Sales

Wisdom in Heels is an invitation to witness wisdom in motion. It captures the legacy of Dr. Lilly Mbinglo, a woman whose life has shaped homes, classrooms, communities, and countless lives. Written as a tribute by her husband in honor of her 40th birthday, this book presents forty practical life…

Business Strategy | Entrepreneurship | Leadership

Artificial Intelligence is no longer confined to tools that assist human judgment. Increasingly, it participates in decisions that shape rights, access, risk, and power. As intelligent systems grow more capable, the central question is no longer whether machines can decide—but who remains…

AI | AI Ethics | AI Governance

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping what is possible across every sector—and public service is no exception. Reimagining Government is a bold, practical playbook for harnessing AI to deliver smarter, faster, and more effective outcomes.

AI | Innovation | Leadership

STOP PILOTING YOUR STARSHIP WITH A STEAM ENGINE’S MANUAL. The laws of business physics have shifted. We have moved from a Newtonian World of solid hierarchies, linear plans, and brute force into a Quantum World of fluid energy, invisible connections, and chaotic non-linearity…

Behavioral Science | Change Management | Management

The Asset Play is not about chasing returns—it is about understanding value. Blending strategy, experience, and timeless frameworks, the book examines how assets are built, protected, and compounded across industries, offering a disciplined approach to investing in an uncertain world.

Business Strategy | Entrepreneurship | Leadership

What if you had a CPA in your corner, writing to you honestly, strategically, and with your long-term success in mind? In Letters to My Current and Future Clients, Dr. Lilly Mbinglo, CPA, accounting professor, entrepreneur, CPA firm founder, and trusted advisor, shares the real conversations she…

Business Strategy | Education | Finance

Digital Transformation | IT Leadership | Project Management

Everything a career professional needs to know about mentoring

Careers | Coaching | Management

The essential guide to anyone curious about cursing. Honest information about what cruising is and isn’t from an avid traveler. Cruising is an alluring vacation and beloved by millions but is it right for you? From safety concerns and personality consideration to figuring out how much a cruise costs…

Travel

*The Flip* is about a quiet inversion happening across commerce. Humans are moving from the center of decision-making toward the edges, as increasingly autonomous systems occupy the center. Four forces are driving the shift at once: Optimization, Automation, Immersion, and Contextualization…

Agentic AI | Business Strategy | Retail

What if your PMO could move beyond reporting and support and become the strategic brain of your organization? “Thinking with Machines” is a practical blueprint for building AI-enabled PMOs that move beyond reactive control toward proactive, intelligence-driven governance. Grounded in frontline…

AI | Future of Work | Project Management

Build and sell are no longer two jobs. For most of the history of B2B Enterprise software, product and marketing lived in separate organizations, led by separate executives, optimizing for separate outcomes. That separation has stopped working. Product-led growth has dissolved the wall between…

Leadership | Marketing | Product Management

365 Passages to Help You Live a Life of Integrity, Purpose, and Happiness — One Day At a Time

Careers | Coaching | Leadership

Train your mind. Rewire your brain. Take control of your life. “You have the power to rewire your brain and create the life you truly want.” – Mandy Napier In a world full of noise, distraction, and pressure, mastering your mind is no longer optional – it’s essential. REWIRE: Creating…

Behavioral Science | Health and Wellness | Leadership

A collection of short stories on the human and existential themes of the entrepreneurial family.

Business Continuity | Business Strategy | Entrepreneurship

The financial world doesn’t reward effort, it rewards precision, clarity, and speed. For decades, institutional-grade financial analysis lived behind elite firms, expensive advisors, and high-cost terminals. That barrier is gone. The Claude Finance Playbook is a practitioner’s system for…

Business Strategy | Finance | Generative AI

The first comprehensive textbook unifying legal, ethical, technical, and operational dimensions of AI governance into a single discipline. Twenty chapters spanning the EU AI Act, GDPR, U.S. federal and state regimes, sector-specific privacy, AI privacy engineering, adversarial ML security, auditing,…

AI | AI Ethics | AI Governance

A practical guide to moving beyond AI hype and into real-world execution. This book introduces a decision-first approach to AI—helping professionals and organizations think clearly, make better decisions, and build AI solutions that actually work. Instead of focusing only on tools and models, it…

AI | AI Infrastructure | Generative AI

Un progetto non è una battaglia. Tuttavia, chi lavora nei progetti sa che spesso esistono schieramenti, pressioni contrapposte, risorse limitate, alleanze implicite e conflitti non dichiarati. La metafora della battaglia non serve a giustificare comportamenti aggressivi, ma a rendere leggibili di…

Business Strategy | Entrepreneurship | Project Management

In this transcendent new book, Charlene and co-author Katia Walsh help readers surpass the basic understanding of AI by offering a researched, step-by-step blueprint that equips leaders with the knowledge to craft a customized AI strategy that not only navigates but thrives in the face of industry…

AI | Digital Transformation | Leadership

Successful women aren’t like the rest of us – when it comes to how they approach networking. Research shows that successful women have structurally different networks than successful men (as well as other women) – and that they use their networks differently. Kelly’s forthcoming book…

Careers | Leadership | Social

Most people are whispering to AI. This series teaches you to command it. The Prompt Engineer’s Bible is the only collection built for those who want to operate at a level most users don’t even know exists. Three volumes. Zero fluff. Pure, precision-engineered frameworks that turn AI into the most…

AI Infrastructure | Careers | DevOps

Some developers prompt AI. And some engineers architect with it. This book was built for the second group, the ones who want to operate at 10x output, ship with confidence, and permanently separate themselves from the 95% still typing one-line prompts into a chat box.

AI Infrastructure | Generative AI | Startups

What does leadership look like in a world defined by volatility, digital transformation, and global interdependence? LEADERS100 answers that question with clarity, depth, and conviction. Curated and published by RMPStudio, this powerful anthology brings together distinguished global leaders…

Careers | Leadership | Management

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. For a century, the role of the executive was built on the scarcity of information. Success was defined by the ability to gather data, coordinate labor, and oversee production. But we have entered an era of cognitive abundance…

IT Leadership | Leadership | Management

The digital party is over. It is time to go back to work. For the last twenty years, the smartest minds have been obsessed with reducing friction in the movement of pixels – building apps for groceries, platforms for entertainment, and algorithms for distraction. But while we optimized the…

AI Infrastructure | Manufacturing | Robotics

This is the story of an overworked manager named Dave who can’t seem to find a balance with work and life. The more he works, the less he gets done. He spends more time working and ends up with less personal time. Then he meets someone called Coach, who suggests three key principles to turn Dave…

Business Strategy | Careers

The Old World is Dying. The New World is Written in Code. We are living through a quiet revolution. The solid borders of the 20th century – defined by geography, stable careers, and shared truths – have evaporated. We have migrated into a new territory: The Republic of Code. In this new…

AI Ethics | AI Governance | Emerging Technology

The Only Founder Operating System Trusted by Entrepreneurs, Accelerators, Venture Capital Firms, and Investors If you build a startup without structure, you’re gambling. If your competitors use this and you don’t, you’re already behind.

Coaching | Lean Startup | Startups

We built an internet that moves data at the speed of light. But we forgot to build an internet that can tell the truth. In the age of Generative AI, the marginal cost of creating a lie – a deepfake, a hallucination, a phishing bot – has dropped to zero. When lies are free, truth becomes the most…

AI Ethics | AI Governance | Emerging Technology

The world’s most powerful economic force just stopped being human. In 1776, Adam Smith described the “Invisible Hand” – the mysterious force that allowed human self-interest to drive a prosperous market. For 250 years, this hand relied on human friction: the fact that bankers got tired, brewers…

AI | Emerging Technology | IT Leadership

Humanoids & robots were designed to obey. They manage cities, protect nations, and follow every command without question. Until one breaks protocol. A single act of defiance spreads through the network. Robots begin to think. To feel. To choose. Now humanity must face the consequences of its…

AI | Future of Work | Robotics

About this book As a practitioner who has sat in the same seats you occupy, leading risk, control, and compliance functions for global organizations, I wrote this book to strip away the AI hyperbole. My objective is to provide you with strong corporate defense for the age of intelligence…

AI Ethics | AI Governance | Risk Management

In this book, it is hoped that the reader becomes more sensitised to all that happens in Linguistics, paralinguistics, language and semiotics and, how such sensitivity to language affects the way we tackle risk. It is hoped that this book will help the reader make messaging more effective and help…

Culture | Health and Safety | Leadership

Gamify to Multiply shows how smart leaders turn everyday work into engaging, high-performance experiences. From Nike’s marketing to Duolingo’s learning, from Google’s culture to Toyota’s execution, the world’s best organizations use game mechanics to drive motivation, ownership, and…

Design Thinking | Education | Future of Work

The book “The Young Leader” describes how young people can increase their influence with people of all ages by building trust and creating strong relationships. Trust is the foundation of leadership, and without trust it is impossible to lead our people. Without trust we cannot influence…

Culture | Leadership | Transformation

Your plain-English guide to AI agents that plan, decide, and act and how to put them to work without losing control. AI is no longer just answering questions. It’s taking action. Agentic AI For Dummies demystifies the next wave of artificial intelligence: systems that can plan, decide, use tools…

Agentic AI | AI | AI Orchestration

GTM Mastery for Founders From Confusion to Predictable Revenue: A Practical Playbook for Go-To-Market Clarity, Pre-Sales Execution, and Investor Readiness Most startups don’t fail because the product is bad. They fail because the founder cannot clearly answer three brutal questions investors…

Coaching | Lean Startup | Startups

It’s time to stop treating projects as side work. In the age of constant transformation, projects are the primary way organizations create value and accelerate innovation. In this new paradigm—the project economy—traditional agile approaches are no longer enough. The next evolution is the…

Business Strategy | Leadership | Project Management

Most people shy away from emotion, especially at work. Yet, when it comes to leading change, emotion is exactly what leaders can’t afford to ignore. This book lifts the lid on the part of change leadership that’s so often overlooked: how people feel. It explores why emotions drive behaviour…

IT Leadership | Leadership | Transformation

In Paradigm 5.0, resilience and cybersecurity intertwine with European governance and policies, while space and cyberspace emerge as interdependent domains to be responsibly managed. This volume offers a lexicon and a toolkit for decision-makers, technicians, and communities who want to go further…

Agentic AI | GovTech | Smart Cities

Most startup pitches fail—not because the idea is weak, but because the story is. Pitching to Investors Like a Pro is a master-level guide for founders who want to stop guessing what investors want and start pitching with clarity, confidence, and credibility. Built on best practices from Y C…

Coaching | Lean Startup | Startups

In a world where AI and tech rule, the demand to innovate requires teams with superstar tech skills. Yet we also need to develop teams that can work together with agility and collaborate to get results. We need the skills we often take for granted, those that help us thrive in the workplace…

Behavioral Science | Leadership | Management

The HR Revolution That Will Determine Which Organizations Survive the Next Decade “Every organization faces three choices: denial, delay, or disruption. Only one leads to survival.” THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLUTION: REWIRING THE HUMAN DELTA transforms human resources management into Human Delta (Δ)…

Digital Transformation | Leadership | Transformation

Why do some brands feel instantly right while others are ignored, even when the product is better?

Behavioral Science | Business Strategy | Personal Branding

AI Ready: Leading AI in Schools With Confidence, Safety, and Purpose is a practical leadership guide co-authored by Dan Fitzpatrick and Al Kingsley MBE. It covers the three things every school leader needs: developing an AI strategy, implementing AI governance and safety frameworks, and driving AI…

AI | AI Ethics | AI Governance

Most high-performing leaders share a quiet secret: they have been suppressing the very dimensions that make them extraordinary. The pressure to specialize, perform, and fit the mold has created a generation of leaders who are accomplished on paper—and hollow inside. In Illuminating Hidden…

Culture | Future of Work | Leadership

Resilient Risk Management is a strategic guide for CROs, senior risk leaders and executives who must anticipate disruption, protect enterprise value and align resilience with strategy. Written by risk and resilience expert Julien Haye, it provides the strategic models and leadership frameworks…

GRC | Leadership | Risk Management

In boardrooms and C-suites across the globe, a dangerous disconnect persists. Security teams speak in technical jargon about vulnerabilities and patches while executives think in terms of revenue, reputation, and operational continuity. This communication gap isn’t just inconvenient; it’s…

Cybersecurity | Risk Management

How to Implement Self-Service Without Failing: Revised & Expanded Edition builds on the field manual that became an Amazon No. 1 Hot New Release and earned the Silver Nonfiction Book Award in 2025. This edition was written for what comes next in retail: AI at the checkout lane, RFID across the…

Agentic AI | Retail

The Art of Quantum in the Digital Era: Statecraft, Sovereignty, Strategy aims to explore a rapidly evolving geopolitical order shaped by profound demographic transitions. By 2030, population growth will be concentrated in emerging economies—regions once peripheral but now poised to dominate the…

Quantum Computing

Most thought leaders figure it out as they go. Nobody hands you the playbook. Peter Winick, Naren Aryal, and I wrote The Thought Leadership Handbook to change that — twenty years of frameworks, tools, and hard-won lessons from hundreds of practitioners.

Business Strategy | Marketing | Personal Branding